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‘D-Day flotilla’ sails for Calais to aid migrants

A FLOTILLA full of tents, food and games sets sail for France today in a display of solidarity with refugees stranded at the port of Calais. 

Over 20 people and five vehicles full of donations worth over £1,000 will cross the Channel as part of the United Kingdom Humani­tarian Intervention Party (UKHIP) convoy to migrant camps.

UKHIP is the brainchild of several groups and individuals who want to dispel the “toxic attitude towards migration promoted by Ukip and the Daily Mail.”

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