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Cooper defends live facial recognition expansion amid privacy row

The Home Secretary said ‘safeguards and protections’ would govern use of the cameras.

Evening Standard

Police camera van rollout slammed as move toward ‘total surveillance society’

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The Independent UK

Facial recognition technology not about ‘total surveillance society’ – minister

Dame Diana Johnson said it was about ‘giving the tools to our police officers to enable them to keep us safe’.

Evening Standard

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Rollout of live facial recognition vans treats us all as a ‘nation of suspects’, say critics

Critics issue warning over nationwide expansion of ‘intrusive’ technology which ‘turns every passerby into a walking barcode’

The Independent UK

Live facial recognition to be widened in neighbourhood policing drive

A new legal framework will be drawn up to support the expanded use of the technology, the Government said.

The Independent UK

Government rolls out expansion of police facial recognition vans

A new legal framework will be drawn up to support the expanded use of the technology, the Government has said

Evening Standard

‘Serious concerns’ as UK-based EU citizens wrongly blocked from re-entering Britain

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The Independent UK

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Post-Brexit chaos as EU citizens living in Britain wrongly barred from UK

Body which protectes EU citizens’ rights warns Home Office they should not be removed if they make a short trip overseas for business or a holiday

The Independent UK

Interim High Court injunction lodged by council in bid to stop asylum hotel

Documents in relation to the Bell Hotel in Epping were lodged with the High Court in London on Tuesday, Epping Forest District Council said.

The Independent UK

Epping Council goes to High Court in bid to remove migrants from asylum hotel

Essex council applies for an interim High Court injunction in bid to stop asylum seekers from being housed at hotel that has been at the centre of protests

Evening Standard

Council seeks High Court ban on asylum seekers being housed at protest-hit Epping hotel

It comes after a series of protests in recent weeks outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex

The Independent UK

More than 50,000 people have crossed Channel in small boats since Labour took power

Number of people who arrived in UK via small boats in first half of 2025 up 48% on same period last year

The Guardian - UK

As asylum seekers are engulfed by slurs and lies, our leaders shrug. Truly, this is shameful

The narrative that they are a threat to women and girls has no basis in fact, but bad actors peddle it, and ministers encourage them, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

The Guardian - UK

Minister urges council not to revoke licence of Indian restaurant facing closure after hiring illegal workers

Sir Stephen Timms issued a letter in support of Udaya, which received a £180,000 Home Office fine for employing four illegal workers

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The Guardian - UK

EU citizens awaiting UK residency status have right to travel, Home Office told

Statutory body expresses ‘serious concerns’ over difficulties faced by some applicants taking short trips abroad

The Independent UK

‘Deport now, appeal later’: Foreign criminals deported from UK in newly released Home Office footage

The Home Office has released footage of foreign criminals being deported from the UK to have their appeals heard from abroad.

The Independent UK

‘The Home Office is forcing me to leave the UK and a job I love to go to a country I’ve never called home’

Shady El Farra, a 28-year-old Egyptian national, worked at British Airways after studying in the UK and is fighting to be allowed to make Britain his home

The Guardian - UK

Canadian who could not renew visa due to mental health crisis faces UK ban

Academic Heather Scott has been told by Home Office that being ‘acutely ill’ is not an exceptional circumstance

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Evening Standard

Almost 300 arrested in ‘week-long crackdown’ on asylum seeker illegal working

Officers targeting suspected illegal workers in Hillingdon, the borough with highest concentration of migrant hotels in London, as well as Dumfries in Scotland and Birmingham stopped 1,780 people

The Independent UK

Hundreds arrested in week-long crackdown on suspected illegal working

Between July 20 and 27, a total of 1,780 people were stopped, leading to 280 arrests for illegal working activity.

The Independent UK

Hundreds of asylum seekers arrested in nationwide crackdown on illegal working

Almost a third of those arrested have been detained pending removal from the country

The Guardian - UK

International student levy could cost English universities £600m a year

The proposed 6% surcharge has prompted warnings from vice-chancellors over its impact on budgets and global competitiveness

The Conversation

As protesters and politicians call for the closure of asylum hotels, what are the alternatives?

Anti-migration protesters and counterprotesters have clashed in recent weeks outside of hotels housing asylum seekers. While the protests have not reached the violent scale of the riots in summer 2024, a number of people have been arrested on charges related to violent disorder. Councillors in Epping have called for the…

Evening Standard

Tower Bridge and Cutty Sark on Big Half finisher medal designed with refugees

Members of the Coopah Refugee Run Club helped to design the medal and long-sleeved T-shirt for finishers at next month’s half marathon.

Evening Standard

Potential victims of modern slavery at record high, latest figures show

The latest Government data, published on Wednesday, gives figures for the three months from April to June 2025.

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