1.   Eurotunnel, the company that runs the tunnel and is responsible for security, denied the assertions made by The Observer and insisted that passengers were safe.

2.   Husky Stadium was almost empty when Jenkins, completing interviews in the end zone, ran joyously up the tunnel.

3.   Shareholders have long complained that the strategy hoisted every problem onto Eurotunnel, the publicly held company set up to manage the construction and run the tunnel.

4.   The Eurostar service, which runs Channel tunnel intercity between London and Paris, has seven in ten trains circulating.

5.   Their backing came nine months after the company that runs the tunnel beneath the English Channel agreed on the outline of the debt plan with its top lenders.

6.   To end the standstill period before an agreement was reached would have meant putting Eurotunnel in administration and leaving the banks responsible for running the tunnel.

7.   Eurotunnel, the French-British company that runs the tunnel, has failed in several legal attempts to have the center closed.

8.   The two reports both highlighted a lack of coordination between the French and Italian companies running the tunnel.