Immigrants try to reach UK in shopping trolleys

Six illegal immigrants attempted to enter the UK by hiding themselves in Tesco shopping trolleys, the UK Border Agency said yesterday.

The six men, four Indians and two Afghans, were discovered hiding in a lorry full of shopping trolleys by UK Border Agency officials in Dunkerque, France.

The officials searched the Polish-registered lorry on Wednesday October 29 before it was due to board a ferry to Dover.



The men were handed over to the French authorities.

A UK Border Agency spokesman said: The UK Border Agency has hundreds of British immigration officers based at ports in France and Belgium, working to stop illegal immigrants before they get to the UK.

"As well as visual checks of vehicles, officers also use heartbeat detectors, carbon dioxide machines and sniffer dogs to find well-hidden stowaways."