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Need a bigger emergency brake, Prime Minister? Astonishing aerial image shows huge expansion of Calais Jungle now home to 7,000 migrants waiting for their chance to cross the Channel 

Aerial image shows huge expansion of Calais Jungle
With its schools, theatre, nightclub, shops and restaurants, the migrants' camp known as the Jungle has now become a thriving Calais suburb, albeit a ramshackle one. As our aerial pictures show (main image), the camp on the edge of the French port has expanded beyond recognition in six months. Last summer (pictured inset) it was home to about 3,000 people awaiting their chance of a new life across the Channel in the UK. Framed by a motorway, scrubland and the sea, the settlement appears to be inching closer to land near homes on the shoreline as it demands ever-more space. Now its population, made up of 22 nationalities, edges towards 7,000.

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