28 h. ago Britain’s asylum housing ‘king’ becomes a billionaire after fortune rises 35%

Clearsprings Ready Homes founder Graham King, dubbed the 'Asylum King' for his lucrative Government contracts, is now worth over £1 billion - and is among the top 200 wealthiest people in Britain

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28 h. ago Britain's first billionaire 'migrant hotel king': Meet the caravan park tycoon who raked in £4.8m of taxpayers' cash PER DAY putting up asylum seekers

Graham King, 57, whose firm Clearsprings made nearly £120million in profit last year, recorded a staggering 35 per cent jump in his fortune, making him Britain's first asylum hotel billionaire.

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5 d. ago The staggering cost of Britain's asylum problem revealed: Taxpayer pays £4million a DAY on migrant hotels and accommodation

Contracts were originally forecast to cost £4.5billion over a decade from 2019 but are now expected to run to £15.3bn over same period, after the Channel crisis exploded, NAO says

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5 d. ago Britain spends £4million a DAY on migrant hotels and asylum accommodation: Taxpayers will pay £15BILLION over 10 years

Contracts were originally forecast to cost £4.5billion over a decade from 2019 but are now expected to run to £15.3bn over same period, after the Channel crisis exploded, NAO says

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9 d. ago Prince Harry issues blistering statement hours after bombshell BBC interview airing his grievance against King Charles and royal household

Prince Harry said he had 'uncovered shocking truths' as he took a blistering swipe against those responsible for downgrading his security status just hours after losing his court battle.

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1 week ago Asylum seeker who came to Britain on small boat is jailed for raping woman after she left nightclub

Eritrean Dan Tesfalul, 27, targeted the woman who was so drunk she couldn't remember the attack in Norwich. He bought her drinks, then followed her outside the club.

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1 week ago Migrants convicted of sex offences to be banned from claiming asylum in Britain

Labour’s crackdown will also see 24-week time limits for asylum appeals decisions to cut the backlog

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1 week ago Iranian asylum seeker who argued he can't be deported because he's a 'sex toy smuggler' wins fight to stay in Britain

The asylum seeker who applied for refugee status in the UK claimed that Iranian authorities looked on him 'adversely' for ferrying boxes of vibrators and other adult devices across the border.

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2 w. ago Boston celebrates 1965 Freedom Rally led by MLK as advocates urge continued fight against injustice

Sixty years after the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. led a rally protesting housing discrimination and segregated schools in Boston, hundreds of people gathered at the same site to honor and reflect on the historic event

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2 w. ago Trans people 'considering fleeing Britain and claiming asylum abroad' after Supreme Court gender ruling, ex

Lord Cashman made the claim in a debate in the House of Lords on Thursday saying people were looking to leave the country after the Supreme Court's ruling last week.

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2 w. ago A Place In The Sun star 'trapped' in property while filming Channel 4 show

Channel 4 A Place In The Sun star Leah Charles-King recalled one terrifying moment where she was ‘trapped’ inside a house she was viewing

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2 w. ago Trans people 'considering fleeing Britain and claiming asylum abroad' after Supreme Court gender ruling, Labour peer claims

Lord Cashman made the claim in a debate in the House of Lords on Thursday saying people were looking to leave the country after the Supreme Court's ruling last week.

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2 w. ago How Jamie Vardy became Prem's 'King S***house' – downing Red Bull and 'f*** off' rant

Jamie Vardy has announced he's leaving Leicester City - and Daily Star Sport has a look at some of his finest moments as the Premier League's 'King S***house'

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2 w. ago Best electric blankets and heated throws to keep you warm and toasty

These are the best cost effective electric blankets for cosier nights

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2 w. ago Scottish Greens table amendment to scrap king’s stamp duty exemption

Changes to housing bill would require Charles to pay same tax as everyone else on property he buys in Scotland Opposition politicians in Scotland have called for King Charles to lose his unique exemption from paying stamp duty on his property transactions.The Scottish Green party has tabled changes to a housing bill which would require the king to pay tax on any new property he buys in Scotland in the same way as all other property buyers would. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago King Charles' Dumfries House to introduce parking charges for visitors 'from further afield'

King Charles III's Dumfries House estate is set to start charging non-locals for parking later this year

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3 w. ago Hypocrisy row over plans to send failed asylum seekers to 'return hubs' overseas after Starmer scrapped Tory Rwanda scheme

Conservatives responded with fury to reports that ministers could pay countries in the Balkans to take Britain's failed asylum seekers - comparing it to the Rwanda scheme which Sir Keir Starmer scrapped.

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3 w. ago Trump’s second state visit to UK to be disrupted by ‘even bigger’ protests

Stop Trump coalition to dust off blimp, hoping demonstrations will surpass those during US president’s 2019 visitDonald Trump’s second visit to the UK later this year will be disrupted by “even bigger” protests than those that coincided with his state visit in his first term, campaigners have vowed.On Thursday Trump let slip that he expects to visit the UK in September, after Keir Starmer handed him a personal invitation from King Charles III during his visit to the White House in February. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Join the Royal Household: King Charles seeks housekeeping assistant for stunning palace

The Housekeeping Assistant will be based at the Palace of Holyrood House in Edinburgh, working 32 or 20 hours per week in flexible shift times - and with a number of enviable perks

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4 w. ago Albanian lesbian couple win asylum claim to stay in Britain after arguing people in their home country are homophobic

The women had trafficked after being 'abducted by masked men, sexually assaulted by multiple men and subjected to physical and verbal abuse on account of their sexual orientation', a court heard.

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