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An urgent review has been called after the Border Force failed to intercept a second migrant boat in two days before it reached the Kent coast. Education Secretary Lucy Powell says that although the situation is "constantly evolving", the number of channel crossings is the "lowest it's been in six years". Report by Kennedyl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00We're really concerned and that's why the Home Secretary has demanded this
00:04immediate review and investigation about how they got through the system.
00:10This is a constantly evolving situation but we are bringing the small boats down
00:17significantly, the number of people crossing on the small boats this year,
00:21the lowest it's been I think for six years by some margin, but of course we've
00:26got to constantly review that, constantly take the steps and whether that's dealing
00:32with it at source, whether that's the security at our borders, we have to make
00:35sure we're absolutely watertight.

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