The large number of arrivals comes despite the death

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Around 100 people, including babies and young children, were reportedly pulled from just four floating dinghies found floating in the busy seaway.

Photos show a lifeboat arriving at the port of Dover with rescuers helping the woman and children to land.

Dozens of migrants were found in difficult conditions after leaving under cover of darkness from the French coast

Several small children were seen among those rescued this morning by an RNLI lifeboat

of 27 people, including a pregnant woman, in the English Channel last week after their small boat took on water.

The migrants’ canoes would have entered the water in the French commune of Gravelines, just south of Dunkirk, in the early hours of this morning.

Reports suggest that a coastguard plane was called from Doncaster after being job function email database alerted to “torch flashes” from boats in the English Channel around 2 a.m.

An RNLI ship reportedly found around 100 migrants on different ships in rough waters. They were taken aboard the lifeboat and brought to Dover.

Photos show a lifeboat and border forces vessel at the port of Dover helping them disembark to be screened at the arrival gates

The migrants’ canoes are said to have entered the water in the French commune of Gravelines, just south of Dunkirk, in the early hours of this morning