12+ hour, 16+ min ago  (562+ words) An asylum hotel which has become the focus of months of protests is to close, the EDP can reveal. Home Office sources have said that the Brook Hotel, in Bowthorpe, will no longer be used to house migrants. The venue,…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (627+ words) Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has signed a two-month extension to the current beach patrol deal with France hours before the illegal migration agreement was due to expire. The existing near "500 million arrangement was due to end at midnight on Wednesday…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (753+ words) This round-up of claims has been compiled by Full Fact, the UK's largest fact-checking charity working to find, expose and counter the harms of bad information. Is the Government delivering on its immigration returns pledge? In its 2024 election manifesto, Labour…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago  (571+ words) Just one wanted person was caught as part of a controversial facial recognition project which saw the faces of 50, 000 people scanned in the centre of Norwich. Police deployed Live Facial Recognition (LFR)cameras in the city over the weekend, using…...

4+ week, 12+ hour ago  (508+ words) Big brother is coming to Norwich as the police introduce live facial recognition in the city centre this week. The tool enables cops to compare faces captured on a live camera feed to people on its pre-determined watchlist. Norfolk Police…...

1+ mon, 6+ day ago  (204+ words) The number of asylum seekers being housed in hotels in Norwich has fallen, new data has revealed. Official Home Office figures have shown a decrease of 45 asylum seekers being put up in hotels in the city. The number has fallen…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (343+ words) A former private hospital closed down after the deaths of three people is to continue to be used to house up to 100 migrant workers working for Banham Poultry. Cawston Park Hospital, near Aylsham, shut in 2021 after the deaths of Ben…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (418+ words) A judicial review of the ban on Palestine Action can go ahead, a judge at Scotland's highest civil court has ruled. Lord Young issued his decision following a hearing at the Court of Session earlier this month into whether to…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (534+ words) Mobile phones and sim cards will be seized from migrants without needing to arrest them from Monday as part of efforts to tackle Channel crossings and people smugglers. Officers will begin taking electronic devices from people at Manston processing centre…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1122+ words) A total of 41, 472 migrants arrived in the UK in 2025 after crossing the English Channel " the second highest annual figure on record. The Home Office confirmed on Thursday that no migrants made the journey on New Year's Eve, continuing a run…...