Three journalists from the Mail on Sunday were all injured after they swerved their car to avoid a log apparently thrown by migrants on to a road near Calais.

The paper yesterday reported that the trio were victims of a new tactic by people trying to enter Britain illegally via the French port.

Reporter Ben Ellery and photographers Steve Burton and John McLellan were all injured when their car swerved to avoid the log and collided with an articulated lorry.