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Home Office silent on Scottish Parliament calls for action on rural visa scheme

THE Home Office has remained silent after the Scottish Parliament called for UK Government action on a bespoke visa scheme for Scotland ...

The National (Scotland)

Withheld MI5 material connected to teenager ‘not cause for concern’

Rhianan Rudd, 16, was found dead in May 2022, a year after she had been charged with terrorism offences.

Evening Standard

UK’s first safer drug consumption facility offers hope to people – councillor

Scotland has the highest rate of drugs deaths in Europe, with fatalities rising by 12% in a year to 1,172 drug-related deaths in 2023.

Evening Standard

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Head of security at Essex centre for disabled asylum seekers removed over alleged far-right views

YouTube channel apparently belonging to official at Clacton accommodation suggests support for EDL and Tommy Robinson

The Guardian - UK

Life and death on the Bibby Stockholm: ‘No one wanted to go inside – but we had no choice’

From the moment it was announced that asylum seekers would be accommodated on this hulking, prison-like barge, the scheme was steeped in controversy. As it leaves British waters, here is the inside story

The Guardian - UK

Home Office may reclassify ketamine in response to record levels of use

Illegal use in UK seems to reflect growth of unregulated market in US, where its high-profile users include Elon Musk

The Guardian - UK

US citizens and millions of other non-Europeans now need £10 ETA digital permit to visit UK without a visa

The Home Office is extending the Electronic Travel Authorisation system to far more countries from Wednesday

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Fact check: Home Office memo advised police how to deal with vulnerable children

The Home Office circular did not contain the quote, or sentiments, that online users have attributed to it.

Evening Standard

Government considers making ketamine a class A drug after record use recorded

Policing minister Dame Diana Johnson will write to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs asking whether its classification should be changed.

Evening Standard

UK’s new ETA travel permit scheme begins for non-Europeans – here’s what you need to know

The digital permit scheme to enter the UK will extend to all travellers from 2 April

The Independent UK

Non-Europeans visiting UK without visa will need digital permits from Wednesday

The Home Office is extending the electronic travel authorisation (ETA) system, which was first introduced in November 2023.

Evening Standard

Clearing the UK’s asylum backlog has led to rising refugee homelessness

New figures show the number of small boat arrivals to the UK in 2024 was up 25% on the previous year. While public attention remains on how people get to the UK, less discussed is what happens to them once they arrive and are later granted refugee status. The reality…

The Conversation

Andy Burnham defends Greater Manchester inquiry into grooming gangs

The Mayor of Greater Manchester commissioned an independent review in 2017 to consider allegations made in BBC documentary The Betrayed Girls.

Evening Standard

Elon Musk’s attacks on Jess Phillips a ‘disgraceful smear’, Streeting says

The billionaire has criticised the Labour Government’s handing of child sexual exploitation.

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Home Office accused of spending £10,000 on lavish dinner at Searcys in The Gherkin

Civil servants reportedly received special permission to use the government’s Procurement Card to host the lavish gala for their Italian counterparts in November

The Guardian - UK

UK rollout of eVisas could leave non-EU migrants ‘vulnerable’

Home Office is issuing digital visas without completing necessary checks, Freedom of Information quest reveals

The Guardian - UK

About 280 contractor jobs cut after Labour ends Rwanda asylum scheme

Redundancies follow abandonment of previous government’s plans to send asylum seekers to east Africa

The Independent UK

Will there be a new grooming gangs inquiry and what did the previous one find?

Labour government facing pressure over its response to grooming gangs

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Why are Elon Musk and Kemi Badenoch calling for a grooming scandal inquiry and why is Labour rejecting it?

The background to the inquiries that have been done and why the Home Office Minister has refused calls for a fresh investigation into historic child sexual abuse

The Guardian - UK

Firm led by ex-UK envoy on ethics made £13m on not-for-profit visa services

Cloud Bai-Yun was asked to resign from Ecctis, which runs language and qualifications tests for UK visa applicants

The Independent UK

Elon Musk claims King should dissolve Parliament in fresh attack on Starmer

Tech billionaire continues social media criticism of PM over handling of historic child abuse in Oldham

Evening Standard

Elon Musk calls on King to dissolve Parliament over grooming gangs

The tech billionaire has continued his social media criticism of Sir Keir Starmer for the Government’s handling of the UK’s ‘rape gangs scandal’.

Evening Standard

Home Office unveils new 'smash the gangs' measures as migrant Channel crossings up 25%

Almost 37,000 people crossed the Channel in small boats in 2024 - up by a quarter on the previous year

Evening Standard

Proposed phone bans for suspected people smugglers branded ‘weak’ by Tories

Measures aimed at cracking down on organised immigration crime are ‘laughable’, shadow home secretary Chris Philp said.

The Guardian - UK

DWP spent £50,000 trying to stop release of review into disabled man’s death

Previous government spent almost £1m trying to prevent release of documents in 56 legal cases

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