Hundreds of migrants who have smuggled themselves into Britain from Calais are being put up in hotels at taxpayers' expense. Stowaways who have illegally entered the country on lorries or trains through the Channel Tunnel are being transported across England and given their own hotel room, three cooked meals a day and a cash allowance of £35 a week - all within days of entering the UK. Illegal migrants like Muhammad and Adam (pictured) who made the long journey, are now being put up at a hotel in Lancashire. Speaking over tea, paid for by The Mail on Sunday, both men declined to give their surname and neither have any paperwork to enable their stories to be corroborated. Muhammad said: 'Coming to England is like being reborn. I have a new life now. The hotel is nice and comfortable. We feel safe here. The country is beautiful and food is good.'
'It's easy to get past the gendarmes, see you in England': How a migrant girl, 15, sneaked past French police to make a break for a UK-bound train in Calais
Mail on Sunday met Zewdi (circled left and inset) and friend Semlet, from Eritrea, in the French village of Frethun as they prepared to make their 12th attempt to sneak into the Eurotunnel complex and jump onto a UK-bound freight train (right). To get to Calais the pair crossed Sudan, paid smugglers $1,500 to smuggle them over the border into Libya and another $2,000 to a trafficker for a perilous boat journey across the Mediterranean to Italy. Zewdi's dream is 'to go to the Tower of London and I love English books'.
- Free hotels for the Calais stowaways in soft touch Britain: Outrage as immigrants illegally entering UK get cooked meals and £35 cash a week within days of arrival
- 'It's easy to get past the gendarmes, see you in England': How a migrant girl, 15, sneaked past French police to make a break for a UK-bound train in crisis-hit Calais
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- Vladimir Putin's Deputy Prime Minister owns a secret £12million apartment just a short walk from Downing Street
- Has a poacher killed Cecil's brother? Zimbabwe park claims ANOTHER lion has been shot dead - and it may be cub protector Jericho
- Police send in bomb disposal robot after suspect package is found on the route of Brighton's gay pride parade
- 'Rolf Harris called me his adopted son... but I knew I was living with a monster': Musician who lived with disgraced star reveals the depth of deprivation on 'Planet Rolf'
- Royal British legion suspends firm after investigation reveals the cynical cold-call lies of fundraisers in poppy lottery appeal
- Kids Company charity at risk of collapsing as claims emerge of staff handing out 'cash to children for drink, drugs and clothes'
- Police forced into climbdown over criminal investigation into Mail on Sunday reporter who exposed cocaine doctor
- Hypnotist Paul McKenna fails to halt court case in which he's been branded a 'cocaine, prescription pill and alcohol addict'
- The lion hunter's house of horror: Dentist 'wanted to show off Cecil in special shrine, which contains than than 50 animal heads'
- Betrayal of Camp Bastion's 'Hurt Locker' heroine: Soldier claimed that Army freed Taliban killer of bomb disposal expert
- Her Majesties the Queens: Royal photographer's unique multiple portraits based on van Dyck's legendary Charles I
- Has a poacher killed Cecil's brother? Zimbabwe park claims ANOTHER lion has been shot dead - and it may be cub protector Jericho
- EXCLUSIVE - Bobby Brown breaks down: Father of Bobbi Kristina wells up as he leaves her reception after his screaming sister had to be 'escorted out of funeral' mid-service
- Saved... for now: Cecil the lion's cubs are being protected by his BROTHER after fears rival male will kill them and take over the pride, says Oxford University expert
- EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's camp fears a new 'bimbo eruption' will put the kibosh on candidacy - especially from Gennifer Flowers who claimed Bill liked to be blindfolded and tied up with silk scarves and called his wife 'Hilla the Hun'
- Horrific injuries suffered by girl attacked by gang of catcalling men for wearing a bikini on way back from the beach
- Father who shot down drone hovering over his house as his daughters sunbathed is arrested and charged - sparking new privacy debate
- Subway's disgraced spokesman Jared Fogle bragged about 'AMAZING' paid-for sex with 16-year-old girl in texts to female colleague, court papers claim
- Houstons and the Browns pay separate visits to Bobbi Kristina's wake as marquee goes up for today's contentious 'Sweet 16' funeral that is dividing the family
- Pictured: Osama bin Laden's sister who died alongside his stepmother when their £7million private jet exploded after overshooting runway and crashing into car auction in Hampshire
- Morrissey accuses male San Francisco airport officer of sexually assaulting him at security checkpoint
- 'He said he'd broken some kind of record': Minnesota barmaid reveals how Walter the dentist boasted about killing Cecil and 'SHOWED her the dead lion on his phone'
- Newly released emails from Hillary Clinton's private server include 41 messages now marked CLASSIFIED by State Department inspectors
- The one lover more obsessed with sex than Sinatra: Ol' Blue Eyes' biographer on the crooner's VERY carnal relationship with actress Lana Turner
- Hawaii marine surprises wife with early homecoming and finds her 'cheating with another man' - and exposes her in online video
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'Rolf Harris called me his adopted son... but I knew I was living with a monster': Musician who lived with disgraced star reveals the depth of deprivation on 'Planet Rolf'
Chris Brosnan (pictured left with his young son) once idolised Rolf Harris as a father figure. Now, he sees things differently. Which is why, last month, he released a letter written by Harris (top right) to The Mail on Sunday. Brosnan was Rolf's 'adopted son', the digeridoo player (bottom right) so close to the star that he spent more than a decade living in Rolf's basement at his Thames-side home. In an extraordinary interview, Brosnan, has offered a unique and often horrifying insight into life on 'Planet Rolf' including how the star once told a sick gag about gang rape and made a vile comment about two schoolgirls.
Her Majesties the Queens: Royal photographer's unique multiple portraits based on van Dyck's legendary Charles I
The Queen, the subject of more than 100 official portraits during her reign, posed at Windsor Castle in 2013 to celebrate her sixth decade as Colonel of the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. The photograph was officially unveiled today. Inspired by Anthony van Dyck's famous triple portrait of Charles I (inset), Rittson-Thomas used mirrors to capture images of the Queen (left) from the front, back and sides. The image will form part of a new exhibition called The Queen's People, which will also feature new photographs of the Duke of Cambridge (right) and the Duchess of Cornwall. The exhibition will be held at the Eleven Gallery in Victoria, Central London, from August 19 until September 19.
Chris Evans holds back tears after stunt pilot plummets to his death in in horror crash at Cheshire car festival hosted by Top Gear host
The pilot of a former Red Arrows jet died after his aircraft plummeted to the ground at an event organised by new Top Gear host Chris Evans. The pilot, named as Kevin Wyman, bottom right was flying a 1962 Folland Gnat when the historic aircraft nosedived into trees while performing a display at the Oulton Park Carfest North 2015, top inset left. A clearly emotional Evans, bottom left, confirmed that the pilot of the former RAF aircraft died in the tragedy. Fans looked on in shock, main photo, after the aircraft exploded and a plume of black smoke rose from the trees on the north side of the race track.
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WESTMINSTER TODAY
- How the militants are hijacking Labour again: Banned Derek Hatton has rejoined the party to force a Corbyn victory - and it's all bungling Red Ed's fault
- Farage tells Eurosceptics to 'get off their backsides' and make the case for Britain leaving the EU
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'Are you a f***ing tank?' Video shows motorist turning the air blue in foul-mouthed confrontation with cyclist - but it doesn't end well for him
The road rage row was caught on camera by the cyclist after he claimed the driver passed too close to his bike on a Reading road, Berkshire. His attempts to remonstrate with the motorist sparked a torrent of abuse (left) from the furious man who leaned out his window to yell: 'Mate, how f***ing big is that bicycle? 'If you'd have had the decency to go over one side instead of taking the whole f***ing road ... are you a f***ing tank?' But it ends badly when he tries to chase the cyclist and trips over (right).
All of the Royals are at risk from flight tracker app: Home Office steps in after it emerges Queen's flight can be followed
Home Secretary Theresa May has personally stepped in to urgently tackle the security loophole exposed by The Mail on Sunday last week which allows terrorists to track Royal helicopter flights. While Buckingham Palace has refused to comment on the risks posed by website and mobile phone app flightradar24, we have learned that behind the scenes, the Home Office and the Metropolitan Police are engaging with international agencies to resolve the problem. (Pictured clockwise from left: William flies to Portsmouth, Anne in London, Charles takes chopper to polo and Charles and Camilla to Sandringham)
Al Fayed's incredible shrinking ships: Former Harrods tycoon relaxes on his 112ft yacht that is barely HALF the size of his £8million 208ft love boat that Diana and Dodi sailed through the Med
As Mohamed Al-Fayed sails on a vintage vessel this weekend through the Mediterranean, the former Harrods owner's choice of boat is a far cry from the super yacht he once invited Princess Diana to stay on. He is travelling on 112ft Sakara (top) a yacht built in the 1913 by an American shipbuilding firm and used by the Egyptian tycoon for holidays around Europe. But it is nothing compared to Al Fayed's former yacht Sokar, also known as Jonikal (bottom). The ship was often used by his son Dodi to woo Diana, Princess of Wales, and was where the famous shot of her taking a few quiet moments alone was photographged. Al Fayed sold the ship last year for $13million after it had been on the market for years.
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It's this summer's uniform of the kooky and the carefree, and further proof - if it were needed - of how women are treated like infants by the fashion industry. The short all-in-one playsuit is the latest must-have, even though the toddler-inspired design is particularly unforgiving. The trend has been led by pop princess Taylor Swift, wearing numerous permutations of the 'romper', as it's called in the States. Our panel, including Talia Michaels (left), Charlotte Griffiths (centre) and Rachel Johnson (right), give their verdict.
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Could it get any worse? Taliban look set to clash with ISIS as Mullah Omar's successor vows to continue the war in Afghanistan
Afghanistan's unstable security situation could be set to worsen with fears growing that Taliban defections to a small but growing ISIS franchise group may lead to further violence. Following the Taliban's official confirmation of Mullah Omar's death, fears have started to grow that a ISIS franchise has the potential to pose a serious challenge to the jihadi group in Afganistan. ISIS's Khorasan province, (wilayat al-Khorasan) remains a small group of militants but could have significant financial backing from ISIS with signs of Taliban instability.
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- Russia may ban gay emojis because they breach 'homosexual propaganda' law
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- Palestinian youth shot dead by Israeli troops during protest after toddler was killed in West Bank firebombing by 'Jewish extremists'
- Washed-up wing flap thought to be part of missing MH370 arrives in France for investigators to study
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- EXCLUSIVE: Wife of American dentist who is in hiding after killing Cecil the lion is a hunter too - and his office has animal heads and paw print flooring
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