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Epping council wins High Court fight to evict asylum seekers from hotel as judge grants bombshell injunction

Asylum seekers will be moved from the Bell Hotel within 28 days thanks to the High Court order

Evening Standard

UK has backed down on demand to access US Apple user data, spy chief says

Tulsi Gabbbard says Home Office no longer demanding ‘backdoor’ to encrypted material

The Guardian - UK

‘Nothing is the same’: Windrush victim allowed to return to UK after 28 years

George Lee was stuck in Poland and received little help from UK officials even after the scandal broke in 2018

The Guardian - UK

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A fresh use for 35mm film canisters

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The Guardian - UK

'Home Office urged us to return to Syria – despite my kids facing death threats'

THE Home Office tried to talk a Syrian family into returning to their home country despite death threats levelled against the mother and children…

The National (Scotland)

Far-right protest in Falkirk met by anti-racism counter-demo outside asylum hotel

COUNTER-PROTESTERS faced-off with a far-right demonstration in Falkirk, outside of a former hotel housing asylum seekers.

The National (Scotland)

Four ways the UK has tried to stop small boat Channel crossings

From Rwanda to wave machines, successive governments have tried, and failed, to deter people crossing from France

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Epping asylum seeker hotel 'feeding ground for violent unrest', says council in High Court bid to shut it down

The Bell Hotel has been at the centre of violent protests over its housing of asylum seekers

Evening Standard

People held under UK’s ‘one in, one out’ asylum deal say they had not heard of it

Some of first group of small boat arrivals to be detained say they are terrified of being sent back to their home countries

The Guardian - UK

Arms firms lobbied for Palestine Action 'terrorists' label, files reveal

AN arms lobby group pressed both the UK and Scottish Governments to curb movements from Palestine Action more than a month before the group was…

The National (Scotland)

Council’s bid to block hotel housing asylum seekers to be heard on Friday

Epping Forest District Council is seeking an interim injunction stopping migrants from being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex.

Evening Standard

UK immigration system targeted by hackers - dangerous new phishing campaign hits Sponsorship Management System

Phishing emails are being used to steal account credentials to generate fake jobs and visa schemes.

TechRadar

Yvette Cooper solves one headache for justice system but may have caused another

Allowing police to disclose ethnicity and nationality of suspects could have consequences for race relations

The Guardian - UK

Cooper defends live facial recognition expansion amid privacy row

The Home Secretary said ‘safeguards and protections’ would govern use of the cameras.

Evening Standard

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The Independent UK

Police camera van rollout slammed as move toward ‘total surveillance society’

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Evening Standard

Facial recognition technology not about ‘total surveillance society’ – minister

Dame Diana Johnson said it was about ‘giving the tools to our police officers to enable them to keep us safe’.

The Independent UK

Rollout of live facial recognition vans treats us all as a ‘nation of suspects’, say critics

Critics issue warning over nationwide expansion of ‘intrusive’ technology which ‘turns every passerby into a walking barcode’

Evening Standard

Government rolls out expansion of police facial recognition vans

A new legal framework will be drawn up to support the expanded use of the technology, the Government has said

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The Independent UK

Live facial recognition to be widened in neighbourhood policing drive

A new legal framework will be drawn up to support the expanded use of the technology, the Government said.

The Independent UK

‘Serious concerns’ as UK-based EU citizens wrongly blocked from re-entering Britain

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The Independent UK

Post-Brexit chaos as EU citizens living in Britain wrongly barred from UK

Body which protectes EU citizens’ rights warns Home Office they should not be removed if they make a short trip overseas for business or a holiday

The Independent UK

Interim High Court injunction lodged by council in bid to stop asylum hotel

Documents in relation to the Bell Hotel in Epping were lodged with the High Court in London on Tuesday, Epping Forest District Council said.

Evening Standard

Epping Council goes to High Court in bid to remove migrants from asylum hotel

Essex council applies for an interim High Court injunction in bid to stop asylum seekers from being housed at hotel that has been at the centre of protests

The Independent UK

Council seeks High Court ban on asylum seekers being housed at protest-hit Epping hotel

It comes after a series of protests in recent weeks outside the Bell Hotel in Epping, Essex

The Guardian - UK

More than 50,000 people have crossed Channel in small boats since Labour took power

Number of people who arrived in UK via small boats in first half of 2025 up 48% on same period last year

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