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Police expand use of facial recognition apps for quick checks
14+ hour, 43+ min ago (11+ words) The Times...
Police use new tech to blitz knife-crime hotspots
3+ week, 5+ day ago (448+ words) Data mapping will pinpoint worst-hit areas and help officers catch offenders on the streets...
African tribe" leader deported after months camping in Scottish woods
1+ week, 2+ day ago (502+ words) The leader of a self-styled "African tribe" who was living in woodland near Jedburgh has been deported, the Home Office has confirmed. Kofi Offeh, 36, who became known as King Atehene and claimed to be a descendant of the biblical King…...
Lawyers refuse briefs for Channel migrant deportations
2+ week, 6+ day ago (606+ words) Immigration lawyers are refusing to represent migrants due for deportation to France under the one-in, one-out deal." Out of 38 migrants due to be deported from Stansted Airport to Paris on a removals flight in January, just six were removed due…...
France rejects British offer to intercept and return small boats
3+ week, 4+ day ago (836+ words) The French government has rejected a proposal from Shabana Mahmood to deploy British Border Force vessels to intercept small boats and return them to France. The home secretary put forward the option as part of negotiations to renew the multimillion-pound…...
I swear Shabana Mahmood is entitled to take on white liberals
1+ week, 5+ day ago (12+ words) The Times...
Home Office shuts 11 migrant hotels in push to use military sites
2+ week, 5+ day ago (541+ words) The Home Office has moved 10, 000 migrants out of hotels since the start of the year as it ramps up the use of old military sites." There are 20, 800 asylum seekers in hotels, down from 30, 657 in December."This has enabled ministers to…...
Universities "threatened by spurious Home Office visa rejections
3+ week, 3+ day ago (1051+ words) Spurious Home Office decisions rejecting student visas are threatening universities" ability to enrol young people from abroad, it is claimed. New rules come into effect in June that will punish universities if more than 4 per cent of study visas are…...
Four migrants dead after trying to cross Channel
3+ week, 3+ day ago (592+ words) At least four migrants died trying to cross the Channel on Thursday as the total number of people arriving in small boats this year passed 5, 000. Several bodies were found floating on the surface and the number of dead may rise,…...
Our delivery app addiction is driving crime
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (411+ words) A friend told me that he sometimes orders family lunch from Pret a Manger to be delivered to his home by Uber Eats. Here, I thought, was the apex of decadent late-capitalism: an able-bodied human with a well-appointed kitchen too…...