1+ hour, 12+ min ago  (1177+ words) Ministers will do "whatever it takes" to close asylum hotels as the Government braced for battle over plans to move migrants into former military barracks. Planning permission is being sought at Ministry of Defence sites in Bicester in Oxfordshire, Barnham…...

2+ week, 21+ hour ago  (306+ words) All residents at The Bell Hotel in Essex, which has been used to house asylum seekers and was the location of protests last year, have been removed from the property, Epping Forest District Council (EFDC) said. On Thursday, the council…...

1+ mon, 5+ day ago  (1106+ words) Net migration to the UK has fallen to its lowest level since the Covid-19 pandemic and is now 82% below its record peak in 2023. Here the Press Association looks at the key numbers and trends in the new data, which has…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (553+ words) UK net migration dropped to an estimated 171, 000 last year, the lowest level since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. The figures for the 12 months to December are down 48% compared with the previous year (331, 000), according to the Office for National Statistics…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (1774+ words) More than 200, 000 migrants have arrived in the UK after crossing the Channel since current records began in 2018, Government figures show. This is how events have unfolded since the start of the Channel migrant crisis: December 28: Then-home secretary Sir Sajid Javid…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (335+ words) Some 339 people have attempted to cross the Channel in the last three days. It comes less than a week after the UK signed a new agreement with Paris to curb crossings. Only a week before, 602 people arrived in Dover on…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago  (700+ words) Riot-control-trained police from Britain will be sent to help crack down on small boat crossings in the English Channel as part of a new agreement between the UK and France. It is one of the measures Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood…...

2+ mon, 6+ day ago  (367+ words) More than 600 people crossed the Channel on small boats yesterday, making it the second busiest day for crossings so far this year. Home Office figures show 602 people arrived in Dover on nine boats, bringing the total number of arrivals so…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago  (185+ words) A Sudanese man has been charged in connection with the deaths of four migrants who drowned trying to cross the Channel. Alnour Mohamed Ali, also known as Elnoor Mohamed Ali, was charged last night (Friday, April 10) with endangering another during…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (379+ words) Home " Bexley and Bromley " News " Article Migrants suspected of working illegally as delivery riders in the gig economy have been arrested in a raid at a caravan site. Officers from the Home Office's Immigration Enforcement team and the Metropolitan Police…...