{"id":87207,"date":"2026-04-01T09:54:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=87207"},"modified":"2026-04-01T09:54:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T09:54:19","slug":"uk-to-pay-france-extra-16m-in-stopgap-deal-to-patrol-channel-beaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/04\/01\/uk-to-pay-france-extra-16m-in-stopgap-deal-to-patrol-channel-beaches\/","title":{"rendered":"UK to pay France extra \u00a316m in stopgap deal to patrol Channel beaches"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA1ZQPtI.img?w=534&amp;h=427&amp;m=6\" alt=\"French police patrol the beach of Wimereux searching for people attempting to cross to the UK. Photograph: Kiran Ridley\/Getty Images\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The UK will pay France an extra \u00a316.2m to keep police patrolling Channel beaches and prevent a surge in small-boat crossings after negotiators failed to agree\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/uknews\/uk-to-pay-france-extra-16m-in-stopgap-deal-to-patrol-channel-beaches\/ar-AA1ZQqV6?ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&amp;cvid=69cc11fa2f494a2ebbae45351cf77d44&amp;ei=12\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>The UK will pay France an extra \u00a316.2m to keep police patrolling Channel beaches and prevent a surge in small-boat crossings after&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87207","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-immigration"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Migrants-Dunkirk-France.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87208,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87207\/revisions\/87208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}