Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Start reading

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

Start reading

The Latest Breaking News from Home Office

Warwick student with cancer wins payout after university denied extension request

University accepts it did not make adjustments for her illness as a form of disability

The Guardian - UK

Council hits back at Home Office decision to house asylum seekers in village

It comes after The Best Western Yew Lodge Hotel, in Kegworth, confirmed it will be closing to the public

Nottingham Post

Only 22 Afghans resettled in UK under ‘pathway’ to help vulnerable refugees

Charity says disparity with 8,633 Afghans who arrived in small boats last year shows lack of functioning route

The Guardian - UK

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

How and why did Shamima Begum lose her UK citizenship?

Begum, whose nationality was stripped after she travelled to Syria to join ISIL (ISIS), continues to fuel debate.

Al Jazeera

Anger over Tory 'incompetence' as asylum backlog hits record 160,000

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures reveal that 160,919 people were waiting for an initial decision on their asylum claim at the end of December - up 60% from a year earlier

Daily Mirror

Just 22 people resettled in UK from Afghanistan via government scheme while 8,633 crossed Channel in boats

The Refugee Council said the Government needed to 'urgently rethink its approach'

Wales Online

Press greets Home Office redraft of national security bill with scepticism

Industry sources say changes appear not to go far enough amid fears of ‘chilling effect’ on journalism

The Guardian - UK

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Government urged to ‘rethink’ after just 22 fleeing Afghans resettled via UNHCR

Part of a resettlement scheme was for vulnerable people referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees having fled Afghanistan.

The Independent UK

Ministers propose changes to National Security Bill to ease press freedom fears

Media representatives said the draft law, in its current form, risks ‘criminalising journalists for legitimate reporting’.

The Independent UK

'Dangerous' Tory asylum plans a 'recipe for more injustice'

AMNESTY International has warned that the Tories' latest plans to cut the Home Office backlog of asylum claims is a "recipe for more…

The National (Scotland)

Ending face-to-face interviews could be ‘devastating’ for UK asylum seekers

Charities fear plan to instead introduce questionnaire in English could result in claims being wrongly turned down

The Guardian - UK

What do the latest asylum and resettlement figures show?

Albania was the most common nationality applying for asylum in the UK in 2022.

The Independent UK

Minister Robert Jenrick faces driving ban after being caught speeding...again

Home Office minister Robert Jenrick has “sincerely apologised” to a court after racking up his second speeding conviction in the space of a year.

Evening Standard

UK asylum backlog hits new record of 160,000

The figure is 60% up from 100,564 for the same period in 2021.

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman’s claims modern slavery victims ‘gaming’ system questioned by Home Office’s own stats

Official figures question prime minister and home secretary’s claims migrants are ‘gaming the system’

Evening Standard

12,000 asylum seekers to have cases fast-tracked in bid to clear backlog

Ministers hope fast-tracking cases from high-acceptance countries will help clear backlog

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s Preet Gill accused of undermining Sikh victims of sexual violence

Shadow development secretary urged those calling Sikh temples unsafe to submit written apologies

The Independent UK

Thousands of asylum cases to be fast-tracked in bid to cut soaring backlog

Government officials stressed that thorough security checks would still be carried out.

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Independent UK

Thousands of asylum cases to be fast-tracked as Home Office struggles with Sunak’s backlog pledge

Government could use failure to return questionnaires in 20 working days to delete asylum applications

Manchester Evening News

Stranded in a strange place, plucked from safety, child refugees are falling prey to Manchester's Counterfeit Street gangs

'Many of the children have travelled for considerable distances and by all accounts independently of responsible adults', GMP said as the latest raids were carried out

The Guardian - UK

Home Office to tell refugees to complete questionnaire in English or risk refusal

Exclusive: Claimants will have only 20 days to respond or face rejection

Daily Mirror

Home Office treatment of children 'a gift to traffickers' as experts slam 'casual racism'

Former independent commissioners Dame Sara Thornton and Dame Vera Baird accuse the government of victim blaming amid reports of hundreds of children disappearing from hotels housing asylum seekers

The Independent UK

UK’s modern slavery programme at ‘breaking point’ as demand from victims soars

Suspected modern slavery victims are waiting almost a year and a half on average to get a Home Office decision

Manchester Evening News

Coroner to decide if inquest to be held into death of woman, 43, murdered by her estranged husband

Tamara Padi, 43, was stabbed to death by Aubrey Pule Padi at her home on Lake Road in Stalybridge on July 7, 2021

Nottingham Post

The Nottinghamian: Striking a balance between students and residents

Take a look at the Nottinghamian newsletter from Wednesday, February 22.

1 … 82 83 84 85

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

Office for National Statistics

Amnesty International

1,029 stories

UNHCR

770 stories

Nottingham City Council

Northamptonshire Police

University of Warwick

33 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.