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Home Office to stop using hotel for asylum seekers

6+ hour, 12+ min ago  (341+ words) A hotel in the constituency of former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will stop housing asylum seekers later this year, the government has confirmed. The Home Office wrote to North Yorkshire Council to say it was to terminate the asylum accommodation…...

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Asylum seekers who break law to have support removed

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (823+ words) Asylum seekers who break the law, or work illegally, will be thrown out of government-funded accommodation and lose their support payments, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to announce. The home secretary's reforms will also include the removal of the…...

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Brit who reported rape in Hong Kong faces jail

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (465+ words) A London woman who made a rape claim to police in Hong Kong is facing a jail after being convicted of blackmail and perverting the course of public justice. Isabel Rose, 25, from Hackney, east London, flew to Hong Kong in…...

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Council sorry for causing elderly couple 'stress"

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (414+ words) A council has apologised for causing "stress and anxiety" to an elderly couple. The pair, named as Mr and Mrs X, had been in dispute with Redcar and Cleveland Council for being "overly restrictive" in terms of its management of…...

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Illegal migrant worker crackdown sees record numbers of raids and arrests

2+ mon, 19+ hour ago  (36+ words) Illegal migrant worker crackdown sees record numbers of raids and arrests'Yahoo News New Zealand A record number of illegal worker arrests and raids have been carried out by the Home Office in the past 18 months....

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Home Office criticised for ‘gimmick’ TikTok account promoting migrant deportations

2+ mon, 7+ hour ago  (466+ words) A Home Office TikTok account posting footage of deportations and arrests by immigration enforcement officers has been criticised as "dehumanising" and a "pathetic gimmick". "Secure Borders UK" was launched by the Government on Tuesday morning with the slogan: "Restoring order…...

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Child abuse expert pulls out of grooming inquiry over political 'point scoring"

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1381+ words) Jim Gamble, a child abuse expert who headed up the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) police command, has withdrawn from the grooming gang inquiry. The former Northern Irish police officer was a candidate to chair the probe, but said…...

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Jim Gamble withdraws from process to become chair of grooming gang inquiry

4+ mon, 3+ week ago  (53+ words) Jim Gamble, who was one of the frontrunners to become chair of the grooming gang inquiry, has withdrawn from the process, blaming "vested interests" and "political opportunism and point-scoring" ... One of the frontrunners to become chair of the grooming gang…...

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What Is In The UK's New 'Groundbreaking' One-In, One-Out Migrant Deal With France?

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (909+ words) Emmanuel Macron and Keir Starmer are launching their new deal which is meant to clamp down on illegal migrant crossings today. While the agreement will only be run on a trial basis for the next 11 months, detentions are expected to…...

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More disclosure of suspects' immigration status needed, Cooper says

7+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1298+ words) Guidance for police on sharing the immigration status and ethnicity of crime suspects "needs to change", the home secretary has said, following calls for details to be released of two men charged over the alleged rape of a 12-year-old in…...