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Team behind Hackney restaurant Sune to open 'proper boozer' in Smithfield Market

The team’s new spot ‘The Poet’ will open in November

Evening Standard · Sep 17

Male migrants detained at immigration centre caught looking through women’s bedrooms windows, report finds

Female migrants at the centre have been unable to get around without a staff escort, a report by the Chief Inspector of Prisons said

The Independent UK · Jul 13

Male migrant detainees caught looking into women’s bedrooms, report finds

The report warned that female asylum seekers are being put at risk of harm.

Evening Standard · Jul 13

Record drug deaths in British prisons as drones fuel smuggling crisis

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The Independent UK · May 26

True scale of UK’s prison drug crisis revealed as deaths hit record high

Exclusive: Chief inspector of prisons demands ministers to get a ‘grip’ on the crisis as tactics for smuggling lethal substances into jails have escalated to drones that can deliver up to 11kg of drugs at a time

The Independent UK · May 25

Tony Abbott to become new Liberal party president in former PM’s return to political frontlines

Unopposed nomination comes seven years after Abbott lost his Sydney seat of Warringah at the 2019 election

The Guardian - AU · May 22

Attempts to stop prison drone drug deliveries hampered by crumbling Victorian walls

Plans to install tougher netting and window grilles set back because walls cannot take extra weight, prison governors say

The Guardian - UK · May 6

The Guardian view on drugs in prisons: the chief inspector has sounded the alarm – ministers must act

Editorial: The impunity with which organised crime groups operate in jails is scandalous. Blocking drones should be just the start

The Guardian - UK · Apr 16

‘Little progress’ in stopping drug drones at HMP Manchester, watchdog says

Chief inspector for England and Wales says prison remains in ‘precarious state’ more than year after urgent notification

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13

Waist and leg restraints used on asylum seekers deported from UK, report finds

An inspection of a deportation flight in November found two members of the Home Office team fell asleep on the job.

Evening Standard · Apr 13