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• Suella Braverman met with boos as she arrives at Manston asylum centre
• Ministers ‘considering plans to allow migrants to be held for up to 96 hours’
• Foreign secretary James Cleverly defends Suella Braverman’s re-appointment amid backlash
• Diphtheria cases rising after disease linked to death at Manston
• Number of non-EU migrants coming to Britain to work and study rockets in first year under new post-Brexit rules
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“We apologise to our customers for the inconvenience the CWU’s continued strike action will cause. The postal service apologised to customers, saying that though it “well-developed contingency plans” it is unable to “fully replace the daily efforts of our frontline workforce”. Despite the publication of promising new statistics on referrals to the Prevent counter-terrorism programme, the strategy remains a blunt instrument. Proposals to toughen the Official Secrets Act are the latest in a long history of efforts designed to prevent government embarrassment. The new nationality and borders bill would give the government huge powers over British citizens. Those who are not fully vaccinated will still be required to provide a pre-departure covid test and a day 2 covid test upon arrival.

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.

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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'.

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.

Suella Braverman met with boos as she arrives at Manston asylum centre

Michael Lockwood, former director-general of the Independent Office for Police conduct, quit on Friday amid allegations said to be sexual in nature from when he was in his 20s. Najat Ibrahim Ismail, 35, was jailed for assisting illegal entry in 2017 after he collected his niece, who had suffered serious burns at a refugee camp in Dunkirk, and smuggled her into Britain. The three held in south London are suspected of bringing migrants from Bolivia via Dublin and Belfast to mainland Britain. Whately Hall Hotel in Banbury, Oxfordshire, came under fire after dismissing staff members on November 25 - a month before Christmas - but has now agreed to pay final wages and redundancies. The email address above can also be used by organisations and institutions to contact the Community and Stakeholder Engagement Hub.

Channel migrants could be put up at a Pontins holiday camp at Camber Sands in East Sussex in a bid to cut taxpayers' £6million-a-day hotel bill for small boat arrivals. Indian cops arrested British national Jagtar Singh Johal after his wedding in Punjab in 2017. Reprieve, a human rights organisation, claimed that they have solid evidence proving that British intelligence had tipped the Indian officials about him. Braverman, who's scathing resignation letter precipitated Liz Truss' exit from Downing Street last week, is a fellow Bexiteer like Sunak. It remains to be seen how her tough stance on immigration will square off in the new Cabinet after her remarks about Indian visa overstayers caused much damage to the ongoing India-UK free trade agreement talks.

Ministers ‘considering plans to allow migrants to be held for up to 96 hours’

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.

Sign up for exclusive newsletters, comment on stories, enter competitions and attend events. The Metropolitan Police said two women and a man have been held on suspicion of criminal damage and causing a public nuisance. The extraordinary intervention comes after Suella Braverman lashed out at Albanian migrants. A memo sent to the directors of health authorities has warned of the risks of the breakout to the general public. The Home Office ignored 'overwhelming evidence' Ms Begum was a victim of child trafficking when revoking her UK citizenship, a court heard. Home Office staff are rebelling against the government’s attempts to tackle small boats crossing the Channel, demanding its recent deal with the French be scrapped because it is “doomed to fail”.

Foreign secretary James Cleverly defends Suella Braverman’s re-appointment amid backlash

Shamima Begum who left the UK in 2015 as a schoolgirl to join the Islamic State in Syria, She was likely to have been the victim of child trafficking and sexual exploitation by the terror group, the court heard. Begum married an IS fighter and gave birth to three children, all of whom died as infants. After controversy about the overcrowding, sickness and death of one man, the Manston Asylum Centre has been closed and thousands of migrants have been relocated to hotels. Viktoria Sochka, 38, her daughter Anastasiia, 14, and niece Alisa, nine, have been waiting for visas since being offered spare rooms with a couple in Hartlepool, County Durham. Officials in the Home Office have compared Priti Patel's deal to send asylum seekers to Rwanda to Germans who claimed they were 'only following orders' while implementing Nazi policies. Home Office minister Tom Pursglove explained the individuals deported to Jamaica from Stansted this morning had a total of 58 convictions for 127 offences.

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'.

Iryna Ovchar, 31, and her daughter Zlata, five, have been waiting in a cold bunker in a small town in Western Ukraine for more than three weeks to join her friend Sophie Alkarnaz, 31 in the UK. Border guards caught several people 'carrying large amounts of money' believed to be from the government's Bounce Back loan scheme which was then seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act. Abi Tierney, 48, who was appointed to her role in early 2020 when the pandemic began, lives with her two young sons in a Leicestershire village which is more than 100 miles away from London. Kristina Korniiuk, 34, of Kyiv, was granted a visa under the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme and arrived at Cambridge home of Rend Platings today after a journey which took more than 24 hours. Under the £120m scheme with Kigali, any adult who enters the UK illegally can now be sent on a one-way ticket to Rwanda to have an asylum claim processed. The number of boats making the journey has also almost doubled from 74 to 141 during the same time period, while 87 boats carrying more than 2,600 people made the crossing to the UK in May alone.

The Home Office confirmed 11 Albanians were sent home on a charter plane last week as part of a pilot scheme. A Welsh police force which spent almost £70,000 of taxpayers money on four bright blue and yellow tuk-tuks has been blasted as 'an absolute embarrassment' online. Conservative MP Natalie Elphicke has warned of 'rising tensions' in the coastal town due to the number of people crossing from France in small boats - with the figure expected to hit 40,000 in 2022.

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.

The influx suggests Home Secretary Priti Patel's plan to send migrants to Rwanda has not discouraged young people from making the journey, with kids ineligible for the scheme. More than 750 migrants have arrived in the UK by small boat so far this month, pushing the 2022 total to 7,484, with figures set to continue rising as people smugglers take advantage of calm waters. The first migrants have been told they face being sent 4,000 miles to Rwanda to claim asylum, Priti Patel revealed last night.

A British police officer on Friday pleaded guilty to the murder of a woman whose disappearance as she walked to her London home sparked outrage and a national debate about women's safety. British police arrested a man armed with a knife who confronted two Ministry of Defence police officers near Prime Minister Boris Johnson's official residence in central London on Monday. Nurses' strike means 70,000 appointments, procedures and surgeries will be LOST in England, health minister... Describing it as 'the worst bird-flu outbreak we have ever seen', they told MPs earlier this month that there is a real risk of gaps on shelves this festive season.

The Home Office has reportedly suspended an immigration officer after the accused posted several pieces of racist content on a WhatsApp group. There were earlier plans by PM Narendra Modi to travel to the UK if the trade pact is sealed around Diwali and this seems a challenging task currently. Top hospitality executives said they are seeing a definite uptick in such events after two years, although more could be done to tap the country's MICE potential. Vetting done at the start of a police job is recommended to be done once every year to ensure that the officer is responsible enough to provide safety to citizens.