As it happened: Calais 'Jungle' camp clearance - latest

Summary

Operation to clear the Calais migrant camp begins
Camp has been housing some 7,000 people in squalid conditions
Migrants are due to be taken to refugee centres across France
Fears some migrants will refuse to go as they still want to get to the UK
Some clashes took place over the weekend

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Tom Spender, Patrick Jackson and Emma Harrison

Colour-coded wristbands for migrantspublished at 10:11 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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Wariness on both sidespublished at 10:03 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
Undercover French police are in the camp as it is cleared, while one Ethiopian migrant was wearing a badge asking that journalists do not take his photograph.
'A street of suitcases and resignation'published at 09:52 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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Rue des Garennes links the Jungle camp to the new migrant processing centre, and is a street of suitcases and resignation.
At 05:00 local time, three hours before the police clearance operation was due to start, groups of refugees and migrants began to form a queue.
Since then, there has been a mass exodus from the camp and hundreds of people are now lining the road, waiting for a coach to take them away.
Towards the back of the queue is Adil from Sudan, carrying two bags, a football and a guitar. "My dream is dead, the people you see here, they are broken. We can't believe it's over," he said.
Inside the camp, aid workers from Care for Calais are moving tent to tent, warning migrants that if they don't leave, they'll be arrested.
The police presence is large, with many huddled in riot vans, keeping out of the cold, and making the most of the calm.
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What the migrants are leaving behindpublished at 09:42 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
The "Jungle" housed about 7,000 people in squalid conditions. It had unsafe food, poor sanitation and inadequate healthcare.
But people in the informal settlement still needed things to do to pass the time. There were makeshift restaurants and even a boxing club.
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'Today is a big day'published at 09:41 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
The chief executive of the Port of Calais, Jean-Marc Puissesseau, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme:
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I am a very, very happy man. It's for us really the D-Day.
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Because I will not say it was the war here but since two years (ago) we are living in constant stress and living (with) a lot of attacks on the highway to try to slow down the traffic and to try for the migrants to get into the lorries and so on.
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So really today it's a big day, we are very happy.
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If there is not in months and months in Calais enough police force to control the eventual squat or eventual comeback of migrants it's a waste of time, what we are doing today.
'More journalists than refugees'published at 09:36 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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French press on the end of the 'Jungle'published at 09:26 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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Conservative Le Figaro, external leads on "after the evacuation come the questions", noting the "reluctance" of some parts of France to accept more migrants.
Left-wing Liberation, external warns the government that dismantling the camp before TV cameras could lead to embarrassing scenes, "given that the traps are many".
Top-selling Ouest-France, external agrees it's a "risky operation that could go wrong".
Centre-left LeMonde, external reports that people in Calais are sceptical that they've seen the last of the migrants.
Francois Guennoc of migrant welfare group Auberge des migrants agrees. He told Ouest-France, external that the government is "dreaming" if it thinks dismantling the Jungle will stop migrants reaching the Channel, as they are still arriving "at a rate of 30 a day".
Queues to leave the camppublished at 09:26 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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'Buses have left for Paris, Lyon and Marseille'published at 09:24 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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'Let us go to UK'published at 09:23 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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Pictures from Calaispublished at 09:14 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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There are queues of people leaving the Calais 'Jungle' camp this morning
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Demolition of the camp is expected to take place on Tuesday
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The processing points at the Jungle camp opened at about 08:00 local time (06:00 GMT)
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After processing they will leave for various parts of France and be given the opportunity to claim asylum
'Confusion' among some unaccompanied minorspublished at 09:10 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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Estimates vary, but charities put the numbers of unaccompanied minors in the camp at about 1,000.
Read more: The desperate children of the Calais Jungle
First bus leavespublished at 09:00 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
Dutch journalist Chrisje Sterk watched the first bus carrying migrants to refugee centres across France leave Calais.
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'I will not move one inch'published at 08:59 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
Ahead of the clearance, one migrant from Iraq told the BBC he would refuse to leave.
See the interview here.
'Steady stream of people' leavingpublished at 08:56 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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What next after the Jungle?published at 08:51 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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The French authorities have already made detailed plans for moving migrants out of the Jungle camp near Calais.
They want this to be a swift and efficient operation. The police, NGOs and asylum services have had many weeks to prepare, and on paper, all is in place.
A fleet of 150 buses has been hired. Over the next few days, these will disperse to points across France, bearing migrants to new Welcome and Orientation Centres (CAOs).
The Jungle population - estimated at 7,000 - has had plenty of warning. Many of them have taken the route to CAOs already. But in the past the move was voluntary. Now the migrants are told they have no choice.
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'D-Day' for the 'Jungle' camppublished at 08:51 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
The Calais port authorities are relieved the Jungle is being closed...
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... but a British MP says the UK has left it late to help children at the camp.
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Once the clearances start, we know that there is a significant risk that many of those children and young people disappear
Yvette Cooper, British MP
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That is what happened last time when part of the camp was closed without a plan for the children and teenagers
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And the consequence is they slip into the arms of the smuggler gangs, the traffickers
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Just at the point at which they might have been able to be reunited with their family, then they are lost
'Our dream is over'published at 08:44 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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Queuing to leavepublished at 08:42 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
Migrants have been queuing peacefully to be processed, and the first of some 60 coaches that will carry them to refugee centres across France has left.
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Calais 'Jungle' clearance beginspublished at 08:34 British Summer Time 24 October 2016
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Clashes in the final hours of the 'Jungle'
More than 1,200 police and officials in France have begun an operation to clear the "Jungle" migrant camp in Calais this morning.
We'll be bringing you updates on the clearance of the camp, which has been housing some 7,000 people in squalid conditions.
There is concern that some migrants will refuse to go because they still want to get to Britain, and there were some clashes over the weekend.
Read the full story here.