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HM Passport Office warning: British tourists travelling to Europe with children urged to check their passports
18+ hour, 11+ min ago (425+ words) A new alert has been issued by HM Passport Office for Brits travelling with children to Europe this spring and summer British holidaymakers travelling to Europe with children this spring and summer are being urged to check their passport validity....
UK asylum appeals backlog at new record high after almost doubling in a year
22+ hour, 2+ min ago (754+ words) The UK asylum appeals backlog has almost doubled in a year to hit a new record high, the latest figures show. There were 80,333 cases in the system at the end of December, up from 41,987 at the same point in 2024. Data…...
Zara McDermott joins campaigners urging education on violence against women
2+ day, 18+ hour ago (711+ words) The former Love Island star attended a protest outside Parliament as part of the Refuge charity's Home Is Where the Hurt Is campaign. TV presenter Zara McDermott has called for primary school children to be educated on consent to prevent…...
Home Office: Offering failed asylum claim families £40,000 is not a pull factor
1+ week, 16+ hour ago (858+ words) The Home Secretary faces a backbench revolt over her asylum system reforms. A scheme offering the families of failed asylum seekers up to "40,000 to leave the UK will not be a "pull factor, the Home Office has insisted. Home Secretary…...
UK halts visa routes from four countries amid claims migrants ‘exploiting’ asylum
1+ week, 2+ day ago (342+ words) The Government has placed an emergency brake on visas for nationals from four countries, as Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood accused them of exploiting Britain's generosity to claim asylum. Study visas for nationals from Afghanistan, Cameroon, Myanmar and Sudan have been…...
Lower net migration could hold back UK growth potential, OBR finds
1+ week, 2+ day ago (306+ words) Lower net migration in the UK could reduce population growth and hold back the country's economic growth potential, according to new forecasts. The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), the Government's official forecaster, said its forecast for net migration was lower…...
Asylum in UK to be reviewed every 30 months under Home Secretary’s plans
1+ week, 4+ day ago (582+ words) People granted asylum in the UK will have their refugee status reviewed every 30 months, the Home Secretary is to announce. Refugees whose countries are deemed safe will be expected to return home, Shabana Mahmood will say on Monday. Under current…...
Shabana Mahmood to introduce legislation on migration to take on Reform
1+ week, 6+ day ago (440+ words) Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is to introduce new legislation to overhaul Britain's asylum system as she pushes for bold action on migration to blunt the appeal of Reform UK. She will say the Government must cut migration or risk opening…...
Five arrested - including Birmingham man - after Vietnamese migrants smuggled to UK
3+ week, 2+ day ago (244+ words) Five people - including a man from a Birmingham prison - have been arrested on suspicion of smuggling migrants into the UK. The group were arrested on suspicion of involvement in a people smuggling network that saw Vietnamese migrants smuggled into the…...
'Police are under pressure but officers who helped us after our home was targeted by a burglar could not be faulted"
3+ week, 4+ day ago (361+ words) Police officers have been praised after their swift action at a Sutton Coldfield property which was being targeted in an attempted break in. The officers, from the Sutton Trinity team, were on the scene minutes after they were alerted to…...