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• DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A criminal failure on foreign offenders
• Manston asylum seekers with suspected diphtheria ‘moved around UK’
• Diphtheria cases rising after disease linked to migrant’s death at Manston
• Sunak to announce plans to tackle asylum backlog and Channel crossings
• Suella Braverman axes requirement for all police officers to have degrees after backlash from chief constables
• Despite worst international crisis since 1945... two-thirds of staff at Foreign Office are STILL working from home
• British readiness to allow death penalty for IS ‘Beatles’ suspects shows the need to strengthen the law

Some 3,500 Border Force, immigration and visa officers are threatening to walk out over the holiday period - threatening hours long queues at airports and ports when millions will be travelling abroad. London council leaders rejected erecting marquees in parks arguing that the Home Office should instead lift the ban on asylum seekers being able to get a job. 'All hell broke loose' in Dover yesterday when the driver was seen laughing as he threw the devices at the Western Jet Foil immigration centre on the dockside. Sir David Thompson, Chief Constable of West Midlands Police, said police statistics are scaring the public into believing violence is much more common than it actually is. Police are raiding a High Wycombe property after a 'laughing' petrol bomber drove 'more than 100 miles' to lob three home-made explosives at a Dover immigration centre on Sunday. “We’ll be doing what we can to keep services running, but we are sorry this planned strike action is likely to cause you some disruption,” the company said on the website.

Proudly celebrating our thanniversary promoting the public's access to credible, independent news and sport. Suella Braverman has been accused of vetoing the movement of people out of the heavily overcrowded Manston holding centre if their destinations was a Conservative constituency. Petrol bomber Andrew Leak, who attacked a Dover migrant centre before killing himself, declared 'if you're not ready you will not survive what is coming' before he launched his onslaught. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick said the Government was trying to transfer people from Manston in Kent 'as quickly as possible'. Asylum seekers at the facility in Kent complained that security staff attempted to sell them cannabis. A number of wanted individuals subject to 'red notices' have been identified among small boat migrants, the Mail can disclose.

DAILY MAIL COMMENT: A criminal failure on foreign offenders

Harry says people were 'upset' when his wife 'stole the limelight' and Meghan refers to herself as a 'little... 'Avian Influenza causes animals to suffer agonising deaths, struggling to breathe as they pass. Whole flocks can be decimated by outbreaks in just a couple of days, without any veterinary attention. Their deaths are recorded, then they are forgotten, as they were never seen as individuals in the first place. The civil servants who enforce immigration rules have no idea how many illegal migrants are living in Britain. Thousands of people in Shetland have been without power for four days now as infrastructure is frozen stiff.

Mindy Kaling's hit series The Sex Lives Of College Girls renewed for third season at HBO Max... Ahead of season two finale The announcement comes just as the final two episodes of season two are set to drop on the streamer, which is scheduled for Thursday, December 15. Officials have paid more than £3.7million in the past year alone for taxis, vans and buses to move asylum seekers, illegal migrants and unaccompanied minors. The Manston migrant processing centre has struggled with overcrowding and outbreaks of diphtheria. Lord Harrington made the comments in a live LBC interview a week before the PM rubber-stamped a 'world-first' deal with the Rwandan government to house economic migrants rejected by Britain.

Manston asylum seekers with suspected diphtheria ‘moved around UK’

Medical Justice, a human rights' charity, argued that it would be impossible for those who do not already have a lawyer to obtain one in the notice period. See today's front and back pages, download the newspaper, order back issues and use the historic Daily Express newspaper archive. Meanwhile, showers of sleet and snow will continue across coastal parts of eastern England, especially this evening and the early part of the night. Forecasters says strengthening winds across Scotland may prevent temperatures falling as low as previous nights. Braemar looks set to be the coldest spot in the UK for a third night running with temperatures as low as -10C. Temperatures fell to a low of -17.3C (0.8F) in the early hours of Tuesday in Braemar in the Scottish Highlands - making it the UK's coldest night since February 2021.

The Duke and Duchess of Sussex are returning to the UK for the first time since the Queen's Platinum Jubilee celebrations in early June. Home Secretary Priti Patel recently announced a 'rapid removal' scheme in response to the surge in Channel crossings by Albanian migrants. British journalist Mike Parry told ToDiForDaily.com that he believes Prince Harry is using 'the security card really as a manipulative pawn on the chess board'.

Diphtheria cases rising after disease linked to migrant’s death at Manston

Ms Braverman, the Indian-origin minister who took charge at the Home Office last month, said she had "concerns" over the FTA with India, fearing what she termed as an "open borders" migration policy. Harry Potter fans shocked as subtitles reveal what his cousin Dudley REALLY said to wizard during an iconic... Some farmers, they said, had lost their entire flocks of thousands of turkeys, geese and ducks in just days. Police said two women and a man have been held on suspicion of criminal damage and causing a public nuisance. "Our previous work on smart motorway data has shown that these roads are as safe as the motorways they replaced but the number of live lane breakdowns are higher," ORR chief executive John Larkinson said. The move is part of an improvement plan from the Home Office which was published in response to an inquiry on the failures which led to legal British residents being deported and made destitute.

Lawyers representing ministers have told a High Court judge that a consultation is ongoing – they say Claddag’s claim is ‘premature’ and ‘must fail’. Claddag has taken High Court action against the Government after raising concern about disabled people living in high-rise blocks. According to UK Home Office statistics released last week, the number of study visa grants to Indian nationals in the year ending March 2021 increased by 6,391, marking a 13 per cent hike over the previous year. The UK Home Office on Thursday formally opened its new post-study work visa for international students.

Sunak to announce plans to tackle asylum backlog and Channel crossings

The number of UK work visas handed out jumped 50 per cent beyond pre-pandemic levels to more than 277,000, including a 66 per cent jump in skilled worker visas. Lawyers at the Home Office have been accused of trying to block a major report into the Prevent anti-terrorism programme by lodging a raft of objections. The Queen sent a car and a security detail to collect Harry, Meghan and their kids after their private jet landed in the UK from California on Wednesday, ahead of her Platinum Jubilee celebrations. The Paddington poster, which is stamped with the Immigration Enforcement crest, lists a description of the fictitious bear, including his 'claimed country of origin'.

The councils say they are not told in advance about asylum-seekers coming to their area, meaning they cannot access the local services they need - or are placed in inappropriate locations. Philip Hollobone was told 'don't be silly' by Conservative colleagues as he said Mr Jenrick should 'consider his position' over the 'chaotic' current state of the immigration system. Albanians accounted for just over a third of people detected crossing the English Channel in small boats in the first nine months of the year, new figures have shown. There was a record 11,769 foreign national offenders out of prison but not deported at the end of September, Home Office figures show. New figures show that out of 52,294 claims made by small boat arrivals from northern France over the last four years (83%) remain undecided.

Harry's representatives have previously told of how he wants to bring wife Meghan Markle and their children Archie and Lilibet to visit from the US, but that they are unable to as it is too dangerous. The Home Office has launched a consultation on amending the 1986 public order act to add a new offence of 'public sexual harassment'. Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen visited Bedworth, Warwickshire, to meet science teachers Ann and Kevin, who live on the same street as their daughter Hannah and her husband Chris. A total of 161 migrants were intercepted by the UK authorities crossing the Channel in 14 boats on Thursday. A report, which details inspections carried out at three Kent migrant processing units in 2021, was published this week. Qirjako Qirko repeatedly told MPs his government has ‘no information’ about an increase in people from the Balkan state making the journey to the UK.

Prince Harry claims 'no one in the royal family' speaks 'as openly' as Meghan about their mental health as... A number of newly arrived asylum seekers staying in hotels have received letters from the government telling them their claims have been deemed 'inadmissible'. Christopher Hughes, 37, from Wigan, was driven to a country lane and attacked with weapons including a machete before his mutilated body was found four days later having bled to death. On strike days, Royal Mail has said that disruptions are likely and staff will not be delivering letters, with the exception of those sent with Special Delivery, but it cannot guarantee they will arrive.

The Home Secretary's agreement will see offenders receive new travel documents within five working days. The Ministry of Defence said 442 people made the journey in 15 boats yesterday, suggesting an average of around 29 per boat. The Olympic champion revealed in The Real Mo Farah how he was brought to the UK from Somalia illegally, having assumed the name of another child, after his father was killed in the civil war. Britain's greatest long distance runner, 39, has said he was brought to the UK illegally when he was around eight or nine using another child's identity and spent his early years in domestic servitude. Staff at the border at Dover's now-closed Tug Haven holding centre used government credit cards to pay for the food over just five months last year.

Groups including SOAS Detainee Support and Solidarity Knows No Border network are understood to have been behind Monday's emergency protest outside the Home Office. The Home Secretary last night defiantly vowed to plough ahead with her flagship migration plan despite a Strasbourg judge's extraordinary 11th-hour intervention blocked the first flight. In a defiant statement to MPs, Priti Patel insisted the government is still 'committed' to the controversial policy and 'will not accept that we have no right to control our borders'. Drug kingpin, Yahya Hashi fought a four-year human rights battle against deportation to Somalia after serving his eight-year sentence for conspiracy to supply cocaine and heroin. Campsfield House in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, closed in 2018 after years of issues including riots, escapes and claims of poor conditions. Gary Slade, the CEO of Teleperformance, made a series of complaints about 'shameful' travel delays despite the fact that the firm he works for has been at the centre of the UK's passport backlog crisis.

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Photographs show young children, sleeping infants and a woman in a wheel chair among the arrivals. A migrant who came to the UK by boat and claimed to be a child so he could stay is actually in his mid-20s, and even joined an over-30s dating group, before he was caught out by his grey hairs and stubble. A criminal with a rap sheet of 14 offences, including breaking his ex's jaw, has escaped deportation to Italy - after a judge heard he would be at 'increased risk of reoffending' in the country. In total, 533 people were returned, including 105 Albanians in three separate flights, 26 Romanians and nine Zimbabweans. Speaking at a fringe event at the Tory conference, the Home Secretary pledged to take a 'more discerning' approach to the number of student visas being issued. The charity Asylum Aid has brought a legal challenge against the Home Office, with judges told that the procedure is 'seriously unfair'.

£15 million funding boost for women who are victims of violence Millions of pounds are being allocated to tackle violence against women and girls , the Home Secretary has announced today . Response to the ACMD report on the misuse of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues The government’s response to the ACMD’s fentanyl report. Arrests follow investigation into Bolivian people-smuggling ring Suspected members of an Organised Crime Group linked to a Bolivian people-smuggling operation were arrested in south London this morning . Calais group agrees to further work to tackle illegal migration Home Secretary and European counterparts meet to renew discussions on how to crack down on illegal migration and people trafficking. Barriers to research with synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists The government responds to a report by the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs and commissions Part 2 of work on barriers to research. Sign up for a FREE NewsNow account and get our email alert of the day's top stories from the UK and around the world.