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RNLI request to land migrants denied by Southampton and Portsmouth ports

The Royal National Lifeboat Institution’s (RNLI) requests to disembark 120 migrants, who were intercepted near the Isle of Wight, were denied by the authorities at both Portsmouth Harbour and Southampton Port. Ultimately, the migrants were brought ashore on Sunday at Eastney in Langstone Harbour, where anti-migrant demonstrators blocked the only road leading into the area,…