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Psychedelic drug research held back by UK rules and attitudes, say scientists

Active ingredient of magic mushrooms still classified as having no medical value, despite clinical success

The Guardian - UK

UK rolling back efforts to tackle modern slavery, charity says

Reclassifying modern slavery as immigration issue and rhetoric of ‘abusing the system’ are among concerns levelled at government

The Guardian - UK

'Gobsmacked' couple told wedding cancelled as hotel takes in asylum seekers

"When they told us, we just couldn’t believe it, especially the reason they gave us."

Manchester Evening News

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Couple's wedding cancelled as luxury hotel in rural Wales taken over by Home Office for asylum seekers

Simon Pritchard and Lucy Campbell had booked the venue more than a year ago, but now have just days to find an alternative

Wales Online

Tory MPs criticise use of hotels to house people seeking asylum

More than a dozen MPs question use of hotels as Robert Jenrick says ‘some larger sites’ may be needed

The Guardian - UK

‘Stuck in limbo, waiting to be part of society’: The ‘detention-style’ camps and ‘bruising’ asylum system that await people fleeing persecution

Charity workers in Manchester say they see first-hand the negative impact that the country's asylum process has on people arriving here for a better life

Manchester Evening News

Labour MPs raise concerns over welfare of child migrants

Home Office minister Robert Jenrick said he takes his ‘responsibilities to children, whether accompanied or otherwise, very seriously’.

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UK and France in ‘final stages’ of deal to tackle illegal migration, says Downing Street

Rishi Sunak has vowed to ‘grip this challenge of illegal migration’ by working with European nations

Evening Standard

Children could learn 'mass casualty' first aid in response to Manchester Arena bombing

The latest report from the public inquiry could revolutionise life-saving first aid training in schools and businesses

Manchester Evening News

Home Secretary Suella Braverman’s illegal migration rhetoric ‘misleading’, expert says

Channel crossings are wrongfully being ‘misrepresented as illegitimate’, a human rights advocate says

Evening Standard

UK was 'in danger' of breaking law at Manston migrants centre, says ex-Home Secretary

Grant Shapps said he had received 'very clear' advice that the Government was close to breaking the law over its processing of asylum seekers and the Manston facility risked 'tipping into becoming an unofficial detention centre'

Daily Mirror

Grant Shapps refuses to confirm whether Suella Braverman followed the law on migrants

A Cabinet minister has stopped short of saying Home Secretary Suella Braverman followed the law in the treatment of asylum seekers at the Manston processing centre in Kent.

Evening Standard

Hundreds of protesters call for closure of Manston asylum centre in Kent

Demonstrators gather outside facility at centre of political row over conditions and dangerous overcrowding

The Guardian - UK

Home Secretary Suella Braverman pledges to speed up asylum system with rollout of new scheme

A trial in Leeds reportedly doubled the average number of claims processed and reduced the time asylum seekers wait for a first interview by 40%

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

Immigration detainees removed from Harmondsworth centre after disturbances

Heathrow centre finally emptied on Sunday despite minister expecting everyone to be evacuated by Saturday evening

The Independent UK

Home Secretary pledges to speed up asylum system with rollout of new processes

A trial in Leeds reportedly doubled the average number of claims processed and reduced the time asylum seekers wait for a first interview by 40%.

The National (Scotland)

'Braverman Centre for Cruelty': Refugee centre 'renamed' in protest against Home Office

ASYLUM rights campaigners have taken a swipe at the “cruelty” of the UK Government towards migrants with a creative protest at an immigration…

Daily Mirror

Government CLEAR immigration detention centre after power cut and night of violence

The government has now emptied Harmondsworth immigration centre after a night of chaos Friday was triggered by a power cut and lack of running water

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The Guardian - UK

‘It just rings and rings’: Home Office helpline for asylum seekers rated inadequate

Refugees and support workers say Home Office-funded service ‘torment’, with some callers left on hold for up to three hours

Daily Mirror

Inside squalid Manston migrant centre where refugees face horrific living conditions

The footage of the site, 20 miles from Dover, shows detainees sleeping on mats on the wooden floor of a marquee as temperatures plunge. Migrants are meant to stay for a maximum of 24 hours

The Independent UK

Immigration officials target mosques, temples and churches to advise people to return home

Exclusive: Migrant groups called for the ‘hostile environment’ policy to be scrapped, arguing that people expecting to find safe spaces to pray are being ‘duped’

The Independent UK

Detainees at immigration centre ‘terrified’ as riot police called to ‘disturbance’ after power cut

Riot police were called out to the facility on Friday evening at 7.45pm

Daily Mirror

Tory ministers branded 'soft on crime' after 'staggering' rise in hate violence

New analysis of Home Office figures reveals a 400% increase in hate crime in some regions of England and Wales over the last decade.

Evening Standard

Harmondsworth: Detainees cause disturbance at London immigration centre

A group of detainees understood to be armed with weapons at a west London immigration centre caused a “disturbance” during a power outage, the Home Office has said. No one was injured during the incident overnight at Harmondsworth detention centre near Heathrow Airport, according to the department. Electricity issues began…

Daily Mirror

Inside UK immigration centre as detainees left in dark after night of chaos

Speaking exclusively to The Mirror, one detainee inside Harmondsworth immigration centre spoke of their terror being trapped inside, 'abandoned' by staff there and stuck without electricity or running water

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