A group of 11 migrants are reported to have been apprehended crossing the busy A20 towards Dover after landing on the beach nearby.

Pictures, published by the Mail Online, show the foreign nationals at various points in the town, including walking up a footbridge beside the railway line near Shakespeare Beach.

The report, published at lunchtime, claims a mother and a teenage child were among those stopped, initially by police and then by Border Force officers.

It's thought they had made the treacherous journey from France to Dover in a dinghy.

One was found nearby containing 15 life jackets, suggesting some may have "slipped away," the report says.

It comes a week after 235 cases of people crossing from France were registered at Dover last Thursday in a record day in the crisis.

Politicians have been forced into action and the Home Secretary has asked for military assistance.

A Kent Police spokesman said: "Police were called at 9.20am on Friday, August 14, to a report that suspected migrants were in the Shakespeare Cliff area of Dover.

"Officers attended and located a number of people who have now been passed into the care of Home Office Immigration Enforcement."

The Home Office has been asked to comment.

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