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Pat McFadden in Downing Street

Fact check: Employment rate and Labour’s asylum hotels record

Kiran Kaur

Releasing murderer Vickrum Digwa’s mother early would be ‘blow’ to Nowak family

Kiran Kaur

Jailed mother of murderer Vickrum Digwa could be deported from UK

People at a concert

Black music events ‘cancelled or shut down more’ than white-led events

Muslim women walking

Police-recorded religious and race hate crimes hit record high

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

Two men dead after attempting small boat English Channel crossing

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

Migrants head to Kent for processing after protesters gathered in Gosport

Small boats in the Channel

Fact check: Small boat crossings and viral Nato video

Barman pulling a pint stock image

Telford booze licence holders sent 24 warning letters after breaches

View of barbed wire and a CCTV camera on top of a high wall

Tories to deport all foreign criminals guilty of ‘non-minor crimes’

Migrants disembark a boat in a harbour

Channel crossings: Home Office records 781 arrivals in a day

Police at Haslar Marina in Gosport, Hampshire

Police investigating footage of far-right activist appearing to slash dinghy

A small boat hugs the coastline near Ault in France

Review ordered as second small boat in two days evades Border Force to reach UK

A number of police vehicles

Six arrested as anti-migrant protesters gather again in Hampshire

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

Around 50 migrants arrive in Dover after refusing French coastguard help

Police at Haslar Marina in Gosport, Hampshire after protesters arrived

Dozens of migrants who refused help of French coastguard being taken ‘to Dover’

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

UK borders are secure, minister says after migrant boat reaches coast undetected
Defence minister Luke Pollard dismissed suggestions the Government had lost control of the border.
Sophie Wingate and George Lithgow, Press Association Political Staff

Danny Kruger

Reform UK pledges immigration spot checks and £10,000 fines at Irish border

Pooja Kanda with Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood

Plus £26m to fight knife crime, but Ronan's mother wants law on knife sales

Essex County Council Security guards

Mixed reaction as Reform UK council hires private security to patrol towns

UK-Belgium Law Enforcement Cooperation Agreement signing

Mahmood agrees Channel migrant intelligence deal with Belgium

Damaged police car

Vehicles damaged and police officers injured in anti-migration stand-off

Police officers walk past a pile of discarded life jackets at Eastney Point, near Eastney Beach, Portsmouth

Council: Home Office has ‘questions to answer’ on Portsmouth migrant landing

Prime Minister Andy Burnham with Welsh First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth

Minister vows to ‘engage’ as Plaid launches push for police devolution in Wales

Two small boats hug the coastline near Ault in France in June, as people thought to be migrants are collected along the coastline before an attempt to cross the Channel

Channel crossings crackdown bearing fruit, Mahmood claims amid summer lull

The Duke of Sussex speaks at a press conference

Harry accuses security body chair of not informing his staff of al Qaida threat

MDP Wethersfield asylum seeker housing

Reform UK council to spend £150k on security guards in areas near asylum base

Wethersfield asylum seeker housing

Reform UK council to hire security over ‘daily gatherings of asylum seekers’
Guards will patrol city and town centres amid concerns about daily ‘bussing’ of asylum seekers, Essex County Council said.
Nina Lloyd, Press Association Political Correspondent

Police outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex when it was used to house asylum seekers

Number of asylum seekers living in hotels halved

Cllr Pete Lewington - Conservative - Newtown West - Powys County Council.

Only four asylum seekers are living in Powys, senior councillor says

The Duchess of Sussex

Meghan could return to acting once the Sussexes are back in the UK

Duke and Duchess of Sussex walking along a beach

Questions over who will pay for Sussexes’ security as they return to UK

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex arrive at the Australian National Veterans Arts Museum (Anvam) in Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria in 2026

Funding of Harry and Meghan’s UK security ‘a private matter’, says Burnham

Southampton

More than £160 million worth of cocaine and cannabis seized at British port

Andy Burnham

Al Fayed survivors call for PM to intervene after losing faith in Met Police

New Scotland Yard sign outside the Metropolitan Police headquarters in London

Met Police accused of failing in legal duty to Al Fayed trafficking victims

Prime Minister Andy Burnham during a visit to HM Coastguard Maritime Rescue Coordination Centre, in Dover

PM to chair emergency Cobra meeting amid ‘extreme heat’ warning and wildfires

Wowcher has reduced this 60W 6-Port USB Charging Station to just £8.99

This 6-port charger is now just £8.99

Protesters in Thetfod

Dozens of protesters gather outside former RAF base after Thetford unrest

Migrant accommodation

Protest planned outside former RAF base after Thetford unrest

Damage caused to a house on Bracken Road following disorder in the village of Thetford in Norfolk

Two arrested after police officers hurt during second night of disorder in town

Ex-antisemite Tory adviser not Government-certified for anti-extremism training

The Ugandan flag

Several athletes ‘unaccounted for’ after Glasgow Commonwealth Games

Dyfed-Powys Police is one of 12 police forces introducing enhanced support for victims of domestic abuse with the second phase rollout of “Raneem’s Law”, funded by the Home Office.

Dyfed-Powys Police set to strengthen domestic abuse response

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to the Border Security Command compound in Dover

Channel crossings by migrants in 2026: What we know so far

Mohamed Al Fayed

At least five Mohamed Al Fayed survivors confirmed as human trafficking victims

Migrants

Burnham touts boost to officers tackling small boat smuggling gangs

People head out to sea after leaving the beach near Dunkirk

Four migrants dead after busiest day of the year for Channel crossings

The White Cliffs of Dover

Teenager charged with piloting small boat from France to UK

Migrant Channel crossing incidents

‘Mega dinghy’ carrying record 165 migrants at once crossed Channel to UK

Police officers on patrol

Number of police officers sacked each year hits record high

Male detainees looking through the windows of the female unit at Dungavel immigration removal centre in South Lanarkshire

Male migrant detainees caught looking into women’s bedrooms, report finds

A model poses holding a knife.

Knife murders drop by a quarter in two years in UK

The YONISEE ergonomic office chair includes lumbar support, a headrest and flip-up armrests for home workspaces

This ergonomic office chair deal starts at under £50

People in life jackets disembarking a boat in port

Migrants arrive in UK in first Channel crossings this month

A hand holding a passport onto a scanner at an e-gate

Passport e-gates now available to children aged eight and nine

Mark Pritchard

MP demands consultation over Shropshire asylum seeker plans

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