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Anyone who advertises Channel crossings or fake passports on social media could face up to five years in prison under new plans to crack down on smuggling gangs. Ministers are seeking to create a new offence that would also outlaw the promise of illegal working being promoted online and could carry a large fine. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has also said she plans to introduce a fast-track scheme to tackle […]

A murder investigation is under way after a teenager was stabbed to death. The 19-year-old man was attacked just before 9pm on Friday in a car park on Market Street in Bury, Greater Manchester. He suffered several stab wounds and later died from his injuries. No arrests have been made. Detective Chief Inspector John Charlton, from Greater Manchester Police’s major incident team, said the victim’s family were being supported, adding: […]

A protest against the use of a hotel to accommodate asylum seekers has begun, with rival groups of protesters separated by police. The Metropolitan Police has imposed conditions on a protest and counter protest outside the Thistle City Barbican Hotel in Islington, north London. People believed to be migrants watched from windows inside the hotel, with some waving and blowing kisses as protesters chanted and banged drums in the street […]

A further arrest has been made in connection with two aircraft being damaged at an RAF base. A 22-year-old man, of no fixed abode, was arrested on Friday in Bedford on suspicion of the commission, preparation or instigation of acts of terrorism, contrary to Section 41 of the Terrorism Act 2000, Counter Terrorism Policing South said. Two Voyager planes were damaged at RAF Brize Norton, Oxfordshire, on June 20. The […]

A 76-year-old man has been remanded in custody charged with child cruelty offences after children became unwell at a summer camp in Leicestershire. Jon Ruben, of Wayte Court in Ruddington, Nottinghamshire, appeared at Leicester Magistrates’ Court on Saturday morning charged with three counts of wilfully assaulting, ill-treating, neglecting, abandoning or exposing children in a manner likely to cause them unnecessary suffering or injury to health, relating to three boys at […]

Kemi Badenoch has said she does not see herself as Nigerian and no longer has a passport for the country. The Conservative Party leader was born in the UK but grew up in Nigeria. When the country’s economy collapsed in the 1990s, her parents took advantage of her British passport to get her out, sending her at the age of 16 to live with a family friend in south London […]

The Scottish Government has been accused of removing dangerous cladding at a “glacial pace”, after figures showed just 0.2% of potentially affected buildings have completed remediation work. Out of an estimated 1,450 buildings that may require work to remove cladding, just three have been fully assessed under the Cladding Remediation Programme. Another 12 single building assessments (SBAs), which assess any risk to life as a result of cladding, are currently […]

Drugs minister Maree Todd has said she will never “sit back, relax and say ‘job done'” in the fight against drug deaths. Ms Todd was appointed to the role in June following the death of Christina McKelvie earlier this year from secondary breast cancer. Despite the circumstances of the appointment, the former mental health pharmacist said she was “excited” to move from the social care brief to drugs as the […]