1+ hour, 55+ min ago  (677+ words) Former Secretary of State for Wales David Davies has told how when he was an MP a claim he made for a security device at his home was turned down – even though he had been advised to buy it. Mr…...

5+ hour, 43+ min ago  (608+ words) Richard Youle, Local Democracy Reporter A takeaway owner who was caught employing an illegal worker was found to have hired two more when immigration officers returned just five months later, councillors have heard. The repeat breaches at All In One…...

2+ week, 7+ hour ago  (297+ words) Ian Jones and Flora Thompson – PA The number of migrants who arrived in the UK after crossing the English Channel in the first half of the year fell sharply compared with the same period in 2025, figures show. Some 11,884 migrants arrived…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (524+ words) The Home Secretary has pledged to save the asylum system “for generations to come” as she announced the opening of new safe routes for refugees from the autumn. But plans announced by Shabana Mahmood on Friday night will also see…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (424+ words) George Lithgow and Rhiannon James, Press Association Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has said his Government’s action on reducing the number of migrants crossing the English Channel has allowed it to close more asylum hotels. It is the first time…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (810+ words) David Hughes and Flora Thompson, Press Association 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…...

4+ week, 2+ hour ago  (489+ words) A Reform MS has been accused of trying to “create divisions” by suggesting that asylum seekers are the reason there is a shortage of social housing in Wales. During questions to the housing minister on Wednesday (June 17) Gŵyr Abertawe MS…...

1+ mon, 10+ hour ago  (537+ words) Jess Glass and Tristan Kirk, Press Association The decision to ban Palestine Action as a terror group was lawful, the Court of Appeal has ruled. Three judges at the High Court ruled in February that the then-home secretary Yvette Cooper’s…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (633+ words) Twm Owen Local Democracy Reporter Data and information on children will be collected as part of the first coordinated roll out of AI technology by four Welsh councils. A programme to collate data on individual children and to use that…...

1+ mon, 4+ day ago  (485+ words) Flora Thompson and Ian Jones, Press Association The UK asylum appeals backlog has hit a new record high and is now more than seven times the level it was a decade ago, figures show. There were 87,450 cases in the system…...