The Government has been urged to improve security at UK ports after The i Paper revealed that two suspected Russian spies had slipped into the country on cargo ships.

Earlier this year, two suspected spies entered Britain via docks at Torquay, Middlesbrough and Grangemouth. Once ashore, they visited areas close to military bases and critical infrastructure, a cache of intelligence shows.

Arriving on commercial cargo ships enabled them to take advantage of “less rigorous” border checks, according to experts. Neither ship that the pair travelled on was Russian-flagged, nor do they appear on global lists tracking Russia’s sanctioned “shadow fleet” — a network of vessels known for concealing ownership and identity to move restricted goods. New Feature

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