1+ hour, 26+ min ago  (610+ words) Residents living near a site proposed to house more than 1, 000 asylum seekers say they are "shocked" by the announcement. Last week the Home Office announced plans to house asylum seekers at a Ministry of Defence (Mo D) site in Bicester, Oxfordshire,…...

6+ hour, 6+ min ago  (754+ words) The Home Office has announced its plans to look at continuing to use a former RAF base to house migrants in rural north Essex. MDP Wethersfield, near Halstead, has been used to house single male migrants since 2023 and now the…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago  (706+ words) Concerns have been raised over plans to potentially house asylum seekers at a Ministry of Defence (Mo D) site in a rural village. The government announced Barnham in Suffolk was one of three sites that could house a total of about…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (591+ words) The Home Office is to introduce new "capped safe and legal" routes for asylum seekers to arrive in the UK later this year. The department said it would allow organisations like universities, community groups and businesses to sponsor refugees who…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (772+ words) "If you walk down this high street in Derby today, I would hazard a guess that people are going to say generally, 'we don't feel safe'." Danny Mondesir, a veteran knife crime campaigner who leads the Street Whyze project, says…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (226+ words) More than 700 people crossed the English Channel in small boats bound for the UK on Monday, the latest figures have revealed. There were 710 people thought to be migrants who arrived in the UK on Monday, the highest number on a…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (710+ words) A senior Reform MS has told political rivals to "get used to it", after one of his party's MSs was accused of "outright racism" when he told the Senedd that attacks from Sudanese asylum seekers were "inevitable". Plaid Cymru accused…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (354+ words) Three men have been convicted of committing violent disorder during protests outside an asylum hotel in Essex. Up to 500 people gathered outside The Bell Hotel in Epping on 17 July after a migrant living there was charged with - and later jailed…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago  (197+ words) More than 700 people have crossed the Channel on 11 small boats - the highest number in a single day so far this year. The Home Office said 710 migrants made the crossing on Monday. It follows two weeks of windy weather when there…...

2+ week, 2+ min ago  (377+ words) An Indian restaurant's licence has been revoked after Home Office officials found two people working there illegally. Immigration officers visited the Bird in Hand, at Oulton, near Wigton, Cumbria, last year after receiving information the business was employing people who…...