The Home Office announced the scheme - which allowed Channel small boat migrants to be returned to France - was 'no longer processing new cases'. A British-French agreement aimed at reducing the number of people trying to cross the English Channel in small boats has been scrapped, London said Wednesday. Key points and original sources are listed below.

• The Home Office announced the scheme - which allowed Channel small boat migrants to be returned to France - was 'no longer processing new cases'.S1

• A British-French agreement aimed at reducing the number of people trying to cross the English Channel in small boats has been scrapped, London said Wednesday. The pilot programme was intended to break the business model of "people smugglers" by exchanging undo...S2

• Some 1,500 people have been removed to France since the scheme began just over a year ago.S3