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Why Chelsea's Andrey Santos presents clearest transfer problem yet in post-Brexit reality

The Brazilian prospect is still searching for a loan move because he cannot get a work permit as Premier League clubs continue to come to terms with the GBE system that has seen worldwide playing pool shrink by more than 90%

Daily Mirror

The hundreds of desperate Ukrainian children saved by Labour peer who fled Nazis

Refugee campaigner Lord Alf Dubs – himself evacuated as a child from Nazi Germany via the Kindertransport - began raising Valya Pylypenko’s case to then Home Secretary Priti Patel, in the House of Lords, to news outlets and to civil servants

Daily Mirror

The Mancunian Way: Where are they going?

Child refugees are being put to work on some of Manchester’s most dangerous streets PLUS Keir Starmer backs Awaab’s Law

Manchester Evening News

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Britain scraps interviews for 12,000 asylum seekers to speed up process

Britain will scrap the requirement for around 12,000 asylum seekers to undergo face-to-face interviews and instead ask them to fill out a questionnaire, the government said on Thursday, in an attempt to clear record levels of backlogs.

Reuters

Rise of the far right: 'UK has parallels with Donald Trump's America'

POLITICIANS have a “moral obligation to moderate their rhetoric” and should be more aware of the influence this could potentially have on…

The National (Scotland)

Warwick student with cancer wins payout after university denied extension request

University accepts it did not make adjustments for her illness as a form of disability

The Guardian - UK

Council hits back at Home Office decision to house asylum seekers in village

It comes after The Best Western Yew Lodge Hotel, in Kegworth, confirmed it will be closing to the public

Nottingham Post

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Only 22 Afghans resettled in UK under ‘pathway’ to help vulnerable refugees

Charity says disparity with 8,633 Afghans who arrived in small boats last year shows lack of functioning route

The Guardian - UK

How and why did Shamima Begum lose her UK citizenship?

Begum, whose nationality was stripped after she travelled to Syria to join ISIL (ISIS), continues to fuel debate.

Al Jazeera

Anger over Tory 'incompetence' as asylum backlog hits record 160,000

The latest Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures reveal that 160,919 people were waiting for an initial decision on their asylum claim at the end of December - up 60% from a year earlier

Daily Mirror

Just 22 people resettled in UK from Afghanistan via government scheme while 8,633 crossed Channel in boats

The Refugee Council said the Government needed to 'urgently rethink its approach'

Wales Online

Press greets Home Office redraft of national security bill with scepticism

Industry sources say changes appear not to go far enough amid fears of ‘chilling effect’ on journalism

The Guardian - UK

Government urged to ‘rethink’ after just 22 fleeing Afghans resettled via UNHCR

Part of a resettlement scheme was for vulnerable people referred by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees having fled Afghanistan.

The Independent UK

Ministers propose changes to National Security Bill to ease press freedom fears

Media representatives said the draft law, in its current form, risks ‘criminalising journalists for legitimate reporting’.

The Independent UK

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The National (Scotland)

'Dangerous' Tory asylum plans a 'recipe for more injustice'

AMNESTY International has warned that the Tories' latest plans to cut the Home Office backlog of asylum claims is a "recipe for more…

The Guardian - UK

Ending face-to-face interviews could be ‘devastating’ for UK asylum seekers

Charities fear plan to instead introduce questionnaire in English could result in claims being wrongly turned down

The Independent UK

What do the latest asylum and resettlement figures show?

Albania was the most common nationality applying for asylum in the UK in 2022.

Evening Standard

Minister Robert Jenrick faces driving ban after being caught speeding...again

Home Office minister Robert Jenrick has “sincerely apologised” to a court after racking up his second speeding conviction in the space of a year.

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The Independent UK

UK asylum backlog hits new record of 160,000

The figure is 60% up from 100,564 for the same period in 2021.

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman’s claims modern slavery victims ‘gaming’ system questioned by Home Office’s own stats

Official figures question prime minister and home secretary’s claims migrants are ‘gaming the system’

Evening Standard

12,000 asylum seekers to have cases fast-tracked in bid to clear backlog

Ministers hope fast-tracking cases from high-acceptance countries will help clear backlog

The Guardian - UK

Labour’s Preet Gill accused of undermining Sikh victims of sexual violence

Shadow development secretary urged those calling Sikh temples unsafe to submit written apologies

The Independent UK

Thousands of asylum cases to be fast-tracked in bid to cut soaring backlog

Government officials stressed that thorough security checks would still be carried out.

The Independent UK

Thousands of asylum cases to be fast-tracked as Home Office struggles with Sunak’s backlog pledge

Government could use failure to return questionnaires in 20 working days to delete asylum applications

Manchester Evening News

Stranded in a strange place, plucked from safety, child refugees are falling prey to Manchester's Counterfeit Street gangs

'Many of the children have travelled for considerable distances and by all accounts independently of responsible adults', GMP said as the latest raids were carried out

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