
The general synopsis at one-eight-four-seven: 14 miles south of Folkestone, high probability of landings, drifting slowly West and filling, expected Dymchurch, by 06.00.

There are warnings of Albanians in the English Channel. Here is the Shipping Forecast, issued by the Met Office, on behalf of Her Majesty’s Maritime and Coastguard Agency, at 00.15 hours Greenwich Mean Time on Tuesday 31st May, 2016. How long before we are waking up to this.

After 18 Albanians were picked up off the Kent coast trying to enter Britain in a rubber dinghy, the Channel has been dubbed the ‘New Mediterranean’.
