Calais pushes for new border deal

France should renegotiate a border deal that allows British Border Agency officials carry out customs checks in France following the Brexit vote, the mayor of Calais has urged.

Natacha Bouchart said: "Britain must take the consequences of its choice.

"We are in a strong position to push this request for a review and we are asking the President to bring his influence.

"We must put everything on the table and there must be an element of division, of sharing."

Ms Bouchard has the support of regional president Xavier Bertrand. He said: "The English wanted to take back their freedom: they must take back their border.

"The British people decided, I ask the French government to renegotiate the Touquet agreement."

The Touquet treaty was signed in 2003, and allows officers from the UK Border Agency to operate in Calais.

But, despite earlier warnings, government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said that Friday's referendum result 'does not modify the Franco-British bilateral treaties on immigration'.

President Hollande had said in March that a vote for leaving the EU could see the Touquet agreement being torn up, and that refugee camps in Calais - including the notorious 'Jungle' - could across the Channel to the UK.