6 d. ago The getaway in Scotland's 'best place to see autumn colours' you can book for huge discount

"Flawless stay. This is an extremely good hotel."

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1 week ago Inside Donald Trump's deportation 'goon squads' that are blueprint for Nigel Farage's Britain

Armed ICE officers ruthlessly swoop on US homes in the dead of night, rounding up men and locking them in shackles ready for deportation. The Mirror has watched them in action

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1 week ago Children and teens roundup – the best new picture books and novels

A bothered bear; a great guide to drawing; a life of Josephine Baker; a role model daughter; a search for words and moreBear’s Nap by Emily Gravett, Two Hoots, £12.99Someone is cheeping and keeping Bear from sleeping in this increasingly uproarious picture book filled with forest-dwelling creatures and their noises. A joy to read aloud.This Is Who I Am by Rashmi Sirdeshpande, illustrated by Ruchi Mhasane, Andersen, £12.99A moving celebration of heritage and identity, this softly coloured picture book follows a little girl with “a foot in two worlds”, who is both “the richness of all the worlds she belongs to” and uniquely, proudly herself. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Deporting all the foreign criminals in jail will take DECADES for many nationalities as just a fraction are kicked out of Britain each year, warns new Tory analysis

A wide range of convicted criminals - particularly those from African, Middle Eastern and Caribbean nations - are being removed from Britain at a glacial pace.

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2 w. ago Three out and 1,072 in: Another insane day in Labour's small boats farce as 'one in, one out' deal fails to act as border deterrent

More than 1,000 illegal migrants crossed the Channel to Britain in small boats on the day Labour ministers hailed deporting a third asylum seeker to France under the new deal. Pictured: File photo

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2 w. ago Inside Britain's deportation flight fiasco: Colouring books, 'treats' and violence

Lounging in aircraft seats and surrounded by guards, the foreign men fresh out of British jails are on the way to the Middle East on a deportation flight from London. They don't want to leave.

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2 w. ago Are you watching, Keir? Furious truck driver forces four stowaway migrants off his UK

A furious truck driver forced four illegal migrants off his lorry bound for Britain after catching them on his trailer, as the Home Office deported three illegal migrants this week.

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2 w. ago First migrant deported under UK's 'one in one out deal' with France

The first small boat migrant has been deported back to France under Britain’s ‘one in, one out’ deal

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2 w. ago First person removed to France under ‘one in, one out’ asylum deal, says UK government

Agreement reached with France allows for removal of asylum seekers who arrive on small boatsThe UK has returned the first asylum seeker to France under a “one in, one out” agreement to remove people who arrive on small boats, the Home Office has confirmed.Keir Starmer and the French president, Emmanuel Macron, agreed the pilot scheme, under which Britain will deport to France undocumented people who arrived in small boats in return for accepting an equal number of legitimate asylum seekers with British family connections. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘We can’t eat. We can’t sleep. It’s a disaster’: the small boat detainees waiting to be sent back to France

This week the first migrants could be flown out of Britain under the ‘one in, one out’ deportation scheme. They talk about their fears and incomprehension“We can’t eat. We can’t sleep. We have been locked up in this place for more than a month. Some people expect to be forced on to a plane to France today. Nobody wants to go. For us, this is a disaster.”The man speaking, Fessahaye, is an asylum seeker from Eritrea who fled indefinite military conscription in his home country, and walked through the Sahara before being tortured and enslaved in Libya. He eventually crossed the Mediterranean and reached Europe. From France he travelled to the UK in a small boat. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Revealed: Keir Starmer edited manual on interpreting human rights laws that prevent Britain from deporting small boat migrants

The Prime Minister edited a guide on the Human Rights Act 1998 and the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in 1999 when he was a human rights lawyer.

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