Police clear French migrant camp

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Dominic Hughes watched as police scuffled with protesters.

French police have moved in to dismantle a makeshift camp set up by migrants near the port of Calais, reports BBC.
French officials said 278 migrants had been held in the operation at the camp known as "the jungle". More than 1,000 were thought to have already left.
Rights protesters scuffled with police and some arrests were reported.
UK Home Secretary Alan Johnson said reports Britain would be forced to take some of the migrants were wrong but that it would help "genuine refugees".
Rights activists initially formed a human chain as the operation began early on Tuesday.
Aerial television pictures showed officers moving unhindered throughout the camp and calmly leading out a line of migrants.
But other shots showed some jostling and scuffling between police and protesters, some of whom were reportedly arrested.
After the camp was cleared, bulldozers were brought in to raze the makeshift shelters.
The chief of Calais police, Pierre de Bousquet de Florian, told reporters the operation had been a success.
He said 146 adults and 132 self-declared minors had been detained. None of those held were female, he said.
The adults were taken into police custody and the minors taken to special centres.
France says all will be offered the chance to apply for asylum or voluntary assisted repatriation.
However, many of the camp's inhabitants left before the operation and correspondents say it is feared they will simply set up camp somewhere else.
On their last night in the camp, some of those who remained said they feared for the future.
One resident, Bashir, a 24-year-old English teacher from northern Afghanistan, told the AFP news agency he had paid $15,000 (10,000 euros; £9,000) to travel to Europe through Pakistan and Istanbul.
He said: "We have no idea what the police will do, if they will take us or let us go free.
"But here we already made our place. We have our homes, our showers and our mosque," he added.
Shortly before the operation began, French Immigration Minister Eric Besson said the camp had to be closed as it was "a base for people traffickers".