25+ min ago   (171+ words) A HUGE fire has broken out at a hotel believed to be housing asylum seekers near Wembley Stadium. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) received the first of 29 calls reporting the blaze at the Holiday Inn on Empire Way at around…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (477+ words) REFORM UK have proposed building pop-up prison camps on A-listed Scottish historical sites. On Monday, Nigel Farage’s party outlined plans to tackle the issue of overcrowding in UK prisons, making headlines with proposals to deport “10,000 foreign nationals in British jails…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (668+ words) PEOPLE involved in violent disorder that saw crowds attempt to storm homes they believed to be linked to asylum seekers will face the "full force of the law", police chiefs have warned. Crowds gathered on Thursday in the Norfolk town…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (430+ words) A SCOTTISH Government scheme to sponsor “displaced” international care workers has helped employers recruit more than 100 staff. It emerged as the Scottish Government said adult social care workforce will be increased by up to 45,000 extra hours a month. First Minister…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (674+ words) THE majority of Scots have never knowingly come into contact with a refugee, a fresh poll has shown, as campaigners call for more action to heal division and build understanding on the 75th anniversary of a UN convention. On 28 July 1951, in…...

1+ mon, 1+ hour ago   (333+ words) PALESTINE Action’s co-founder has made a bid to take her case to the Supreme Court after Court of Appeal judges ruled the group’s ban was lawful, according to court records. In June, five Court of Appeal judges said the ban…...

1+ mon, 17+ hour ago   (455+ words) STEEL barricades on the windows and doors. Huge padlocks on every entrance. Graffitied walls, empty cans, and smashed bottles. On first impressions, the derelict former care home on Denmark Street in Glasgow’s Possilpark does not look fit to house anyone…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago   (284+ words) GLASGOW City Council has hit out at the “unacceptable” spreading of misinformation online that is “damaging” local communities following false claims that a care home was being turned into asylum accommodation. The warning from the local authority comes after a…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (616+ words) Officials are “looking at every route” to deport the Rochdale grooming ringleader set to be released from prison on Thursday, a minister has said. Shabir Ahmed, 73, known to his victims as Daddy, has served 14 years in jail since his conviction…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (402+ words) ASYLUM seekers should never be housed in new-build homes, the Home Office has said. It comes after plans to house more than 80 people at a new development in Shropshire were met with opposition from residents. Serco, which is contracted by…...