Dover-bound migrants filmed sitting on lorry axles

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It’s been a while since the news was filled with images of refugees trying to get out of the French port of Calais to enter the UK illegally, but the war in Syria, now two years old, has created a new generation of what were known as “clandestines”. And they are more desperate than ever to cross the Channel, as demonstrated by the terrifying methods they have begun to resort to.