Violence erupted in Calais overnight after a weekend where around 2,500 migrants stormed the Channel Tunnel, including an organised gang of 200 filmed chanting 'open the borders' and demanding to be allowed into Britain.
A French riot officer is in hospital today after he was left with a lacerated face and head as police were pelted with stones as they tried to keep them at bay.
Police said this morning that around 1,700 people tried to get to Britain last night - around one in four of all people living in the 'Jungle' camp on the edge of Calais - the highest number for almost a week.
Separate reports said that on Friday and Saturday only around 400 people per night tried to get to the Channel Tunnel, mainly because of a reduced number of trains over the weekend.
At the peak of the crisis a week ago around 2,000 people were storming fences and desperately tried to clamber on trains bound for Kent - a deadly gamble that has allowed at least 200 to get to Britain but also claimed the lives of nine people.
With the Prime Minister and Home Secretary on holiday, Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond is to chair another meeting of the Cobra emergency committee at 4pm.
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