The rise of the mega-dinghy | Nick Ferrari’s big story
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Cheat the week with Nick Ferrari as he runs you through the biggest story from the last five days: The mega-dinghy. The record-breaking vessel which reached Britain with 230 migrants was originally carrying more than 260 passengers including children when it almost sank. As the boat – which was designed for a maximum of 40 people – was battered by choppy waters, at least 30 people were flung into the English Channel. The new details of the perilous crossing emerged as ministers prepared for even more arrivals of large craft carrying hundreds of people across the Channel. Multiple police and gendarmes watched as hundreds of people boarded the overloaded 'mega-dinghy' on Sunday. French lifeboatmen described how scores of men, women and children originally boarded on a beach between Berck-sur-Mer and Merlimont, south of Le Touquet, on Sunday afternoon. A spokesman for the SNSM voluntary sea rescue organisation – France’s equivalent of the RNLI – said all had been hiding in sand dune
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