Boat found on Kent beach amid Channel crossing crisis talks

An inflatable boat carrying eight people has come ashore in the Kent village of Lydd-on-Sea. Sajid Javid MP was chairing a meeting on the government's response to the recent rise in migrant Channel crossings as Border Force workers tended to the black dinghy. Writing in the Daily Telegraph, the Home Secretary warned that many of the factors behind the increase in crossings are "outside of our control" and said that journeys are being fuelled by instability in the Middle East, organised crime and tighter security at Calais. Report by Jonesia. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn