Harriet Quimby, an American screenwriter and journalist, made the crossing from Whitfield in Dover to Boulogne in France on ...

A specially equipped Dash 8 surveillance aircraft operated for the Home Office has been conducting overnight and early ...

Philip Mickman became the youngest person at that point to successfully swim The English Channel. Newsreel was there to capture the feat, which took just under 24 hours. This was first broadcast on 26 ...

In a powerful act of youth-led environmental action, two 17-year-old students from Sevenoaks School in the UK are preparing to swim 66 kilometers in a school pool – the full distance of an English ...

It almost felt like an out-of-body experience. And that was refreshing, because every inch of jellyfish-stung Michelle Goodwin was sore and exhausted as she swam toward the shore of Northern France. A ...

PARIS (AP) — Two women died Saturday morning while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the U.K. on board a makeshift boat carrying other migrants, French authorities said. Rescuers ...

A beautiful tourist spot in the English Channel is set to be turned into a "resort like Benidorm" by its new operator. The ...

Mark First School headteacher Oli Laken to swim Channel’s width in school pool, aiming to raise £5,000 for Chromebooks.

It almost felt like an out-of-body experience. And that was refreshing, because every inch of jellyfish-stung Michelle Goodwin was sore and exhausted as she swam toward the shore of Northern France. A ...