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Daily Mail
3 days ago
- Politics
- Daily Mail
Robert Jenrick is pelted with bottles at Calais migrant camp before he's 'ignored' by French police as he reports how dozens are preparing to cross the Channel
Robert Jenrick has filmed the moment bottles were thrown at him inside a Calais migrant camp - before he was 'ignored' by French police after reporting a group with life jackets heading towards a beach. The shadow justice secretary was speaking to people at the Loon-Plage camp, located between Calais and Dunkirk, when he said a man 'started throwing glass bottles' in his direction. Footage shows one of the bottles smashing on the ground before a member of Mr Jenrick's team says: 'Rob, go! Go now!' It comes days after his colleague, shadow home secretary Chris Philp, described having a machete pulled on him by a man inside the camp before he was also 'pelted with bottles'. Mr Jenrick's video - shot on Sunday - shows the politician speaking to migrants before fleeing the camp when the bottle smashed nearby him. In his video narration, Mr Jenrick describes then seeing '60 or 70 migrants holding life jackets', who he watches board a bus without any tickets at around 8.30pm. 'They're now there at the bus stop - no sign of the French police whatsoever,' he says. Mr Jenrick and his team followed the bus to Dunkirk, where he says: 'We think they're in a little passageway behind these houses. The beach is just there. 'At daybreak, we find the migrants have gone. We don't know where. There's still no sign of any police. So I ring them.' During the phone call to the police, Mr Jenrick tells a female operator: 'I'm in Dunkirk and I saw a large group of maybe 40 or 50 illegal migrants in the cemetery off the main road by the beach.' After appearing to consult a manager, the woman responds: 'He does not think that they're going to come, but he's going to give the information to the police, then the police will decide.' Mr Jenrick then confirms that no one arrived, despite a three-year deal, first struck in March 2023, to double the number of French police patrolling the beaches. He adds: 'We've given £800m to France and we didn't see a police officer the whole day, and now we just phoned them and it doesn't sound like they'll even bother to come out.' Mr Jenrick believes the migrants either sailed into the Channel, went to another beach or abandoned their crossing attempt. It comes after the Tory leadership received an apology from the BBC after he was described as 'xenophobic' on Radio 4's Today programme. During the regular Thought For The Day segment yesterday, refugee charity boss Krish Kandiah claimed Mr Jenrick had increased 'fear of the stranger' among people. Mr Kandiah - director of Sanctuary Foundation - added: 'The technical name for this is xenophobia. All phobias are by definition irrational. Nevertheless, they have a huge impact. 'Over the past year, xenophobia has fuelled angry protests outside hotels housing asylum seekers, deepening divisions in our communities.' In a letter to the Conservative MP, the broadcaster's head of editorial standards Roger Mahony said the comments 'went beyond' what is expected of its Thought For The Day segment. Mr Mahony said: 'I have concluded that, while its reflection on fear in society from a faith perspective is broadly in line with expectations of Thought For The Day, some of the language it used went beyond that. 'I have asked for the two references to xenophobia to be edited from the programme on BBC Sounds. Please accept my apology for their original inclusion.' The content has since been removed from the programme on BBC Sounds. Mr Jenrick said: 'Illegal migration is obviously fuelling crime and the public are right to be concerned about it. 'It's extremely disappointing the BBC thought it was acceptable to smear millions of worried citizens as 'xenophobic' for their completely understandable fears about undocumented men entering illegally.' A series of protests have been held outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex, over recent weeks after an asylum seeker was accused of attempting to kiss a 14-year-old girl. Hadush Gerberslasie Kebatu, 38, denies the charges of sexual assault and is due to stand trial this month. In a statement, the BBC said: 'During this episode of Thought For The Day, criticism was made of recent comments by shadow secretary of state for justice Robert Jenrick, about hotels housing asylum seekers. 'While the programme's reflection on fear in society from a faith perspective was broadly in line with expectations of Thought For The Day, some of the language used went beyond that and we apologise for its inclusion. 'It has been removed from the version on BBC Sounds.'
BBC News
15-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
Vegetable plot dig unearths crop of vintage bottles
As well brewery bottles from Abersychan, Rhymney, Newport and Cardiff there were also vintage bottles featuring Abergavenny's Morgans and Evans. "There's loads of brewery ones - and little jars like the ones from Boots the Chemist with little tablespoon marks on the side, and one find was like a bottle of hair gel with a comb marking on it - where you dip the comb in and wash your hair. "I emailed some auction places but there's too much to go through. We wheeled them up to the back of the garden - some of them had liquids in them so we had to be careful." Zoe added: "We've got loads of flowers there now- rather than grow veg because of the liquids we found. We knew the area had glass in it because when it rains glass keeps on popping up. "Part of you wants to keep going but where do you cut off? It got to the point where it's level and that's enough. "There's easy 1000 little jars and bottles which have come out."
