The Latest Breaking News from Kent

Immigration minister Robert Jenrick estimated about 3,500 people remained at the Manston facility in Kent on Wednesday night.

Kent council chiefs warn they are ‘at breaking point’ trying to cope as hotels booked up

A young girl threw a letter in a bottle over the fence of the Kent processing centre to a PA news agency photographer

Overcrowded unit ‘like a prison’ say detainees in plea to media and aid groups

When someone hears the UK home secretary speaking about “stopping the invasion on our southern coast”, they might be forgiven for thinking Britain is at war. Suella Braverman’s description of refugees landing at Kent as an “invasion” is an unprecedented comment from a government minister speaking in parliament.

Kent facility opened in January intended for short-term detention and processing of applicants but is already struggling with overcrowding after high number of Channel crossings

HUNDREDS have been moved out of an immigration centre in Kent following concerns it had become dangerously overcrowded. 

The Prime Minister had earlier insisted he needed to focus on ‘depressing domestic challenges’

The Home Secretary is accused of breaking the law by detaining new arrivals at a former military base in Kent for weeks on end and holding up the booking of hotel rooms