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Exclusive: Officials carry out last-minute inspections after reports Bibby Stockholm could become ‘floating Grenfell’

Exclusive: Lawyers reviewing one-page notices arriving in hotels, amid confusion and concern

‘It’s the getting down off it that’s the issue - everybody panics when there’s a fire,’ local councillor warns

The Times reported serious fire safety concerns about the vessel and that fire service approval remains pending.

At full capacity of 500, each asylum seeker will have less living space than an average car parking bay

Refugee campaigners and residents in Dorset have raised concerns about the barge’s impact

Fire safety concerns and lack of lifejackets noted on the 500-capacity barge, moored in Portland, Dorset

The arrival of the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland Port, in Dorset, on July 18 2023, marks a new low in the UK government’s hostile immigration environment. The vessel is set to accommodate over 500 asylum seekers. This, the Home Office argues, will benefit British taxpayers and local residents.

WHEN I ease out on the Maid of the Forth for an annual trip on the vast island-studded eponymous estuary I think of Stockholm, Athens and Venice, of…

Thousands of people took to the streets in a handful of Muslim-majority countries Friday to express their outrage at the desecration of a copy of the Koran in Sweden, a day after protesters stormed the country's embassy in Iraq.

Home Office tour of asylum seeker Bibby Stockholm barge emphasises no-frills features including TVs that don’t work