Camp clearance completed with just a handful of makeshift mosques and canteens remaining Work to clear the last makeshift shelters from part of the main refugee camp in Calais has been completed.

Local officials announced the destruction of the camp, where thousands fleeing war and poverty have lived in squalor as they waited for a chance to sneak across the English Channel into Britain.

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JanuaryJanuary in the dunes of Calais. It would be a euphemism to say the climate is harsh. It is cold, damp and very windy, infrastructure is scarce and there are real health problems. As the first ...