Jungle camp will be cleared on Monday

WORK TO clear the Jungle migrant camp in Calais will commence on Monday, the French authorities have announced.

Officials at France’s interior ministry have insisted all the almost 6,500 migrants they have counted in the camp will be offered relocation in reception centres in France or other countries.

The UK Government has called for as many unaccompanied children with links to the UK as possible to be transferred from the camp before the bulldozers move in.

The announcement on the Jungle’s fate came as the latest group of refugee children to arrive in the UK from the camp were kept hidden behind a screen, with campaigners insisting this was to to protect them rather than to hide their age.