21 h. ago Man dubbed 'king' of asylum seeker hotels becomes billionaire

Graham King is named as a new billionaire on the Sunday Times' latest Rich List

Society

25 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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25 h. ago UK's asylum seeker hotspots: Interactive map reveals towns where rate being housed has exploded 600

Home Office data shows that 110,000 asylum seekers - the equivalent of a town the size of Cheltenham, Worthing or Oldham - were being housed across the UK by the end of 2024.

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26 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.

Economics

27 h. ago Revealed: Iranian arrested over London terror plot was asylum seeker living in taxpayer funded home

An Iranian man arrested by counter terrorism raids was living in asylum seeker accommodation with his rent paid for by tax-payers

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39 h. ago Revealed: Iranian man arrested over 'foiled terror plot on Israeli embassy' is asylum seeker who was living in taxpayer

Footage on social media showed Special Forces and armed police dragging the semi-naked 40-year-old from the house in Rochdale on May 3.

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68 h. ago Iraqi asylum seeker wins right to stay in UK after claiming he couldn't go back to home country because his tattoos 'deviated from principles of Islam'

The Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber heard that the Kurdish Man, granted anonymity, fled Iraq after his father and uncle even tried to burn the tattoos off his skin.

Politics

3 d. ago Councillors raise concern over potential rural Stirling asylum seeker relocation

Stirling Council will write to the Home Secretary to highlight the "specific risks" of relocating asylum seekers into rural communities - and claim such a move would be "harsh" for them.

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3 d. ago New Stephen King film tipped to be his scariest in years as fans go wild over long

Horror fans have been left stunned by an upcoming film which has been dubbed the scariest Stephen King adaptation in decades. 

Politics

5 d. ago Estimated cost of asylum seeker accommodation treble what expected, says watchdog

The original estimate for asylum seeker housing was £4.5billion for 2019-2029, but that is expected to rise to £15.3billion, according to the National Audit Office

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9 d. ago Alone centre stage, for Nige this was his triumph and no one else’s | John Crace

No thanks for Reform’s new MP and mayor, they were mere decoration on Farage’s victory lapNigel Farage is one of this century’s survivors. A man who walked away from not just a plane crash but any number of iterations of parties carved in his image. Rising from near-death experiences time and again. The last cockroach standing after a nuclear holocaust.In Reform, Nige has found his most successful reinvention yet. You’ve got a grievance? Then Farage is there to verbalise it and sell it back to you. Always on hand to spot division and feed on it. The politics of the far right may be his preferred habitat – he’s never yet come across an asylum seeker he didn’t want to deport – but he’s nothing if not the consummate opportunist. Continue reading...

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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 Ghanaian asylum seeker wins right to remain in UK because he is too traumatised by getting Covid to return to his home country

Winfred Kwabla Dogbey was diagnosed with PTSD after he was hospitalised with the virus in 2020, where he suffered an extreme version of the illness with multiple organ failure.

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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 Asylum seeker could be allowed to stay in UK after judge's ruling against 'purely fictitious' claim he was trafficked from Albania is overturned

An asylum seeker could be allowed to stay in the UK after a judge's ruling against the 'purely fictitious' claim he was trafficked from Albania was overturned.

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2 w. ago Pope Francis died of stroke and heart failure, Vatican doctor says, as tributes pour in for pontiff – latest updates

Pope Francis, history’s first Latin American pontiff who was revered by millions of Catholics around the world, has died aged 88Pope Francis, groundbreaking Jesuit pontiff, diesPotential candidates to succeed Pope FrancisPope Francis: share your tributesThe Archbishop of York has paid tribute to Pope Francis as “holy man of God” who was “also very human”, PA News reports.In a statement on X, Stephen Cottrell said:Francis’s whole life and ministry was centred on Jesus who comes among us not to be served, but to serve.We saw that compellingly in Francis’s service of the poor his love of neighbour, especially the displaced, migrant; the asylum seeker, his deep compassion for the well-being of the earth and his desire to lead and build the church in new ways.I remember, in the brief times spent with him, how this holy man of God, was also very human.He was witty, lively, good to be with, and the warmth of his personality and interest in others shone out from him. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Accidental Spy review – remarkable story of CIA operative abandoned by his handlers

Anthony Wonke’s headlong documentary introduces Blerim Skoro, recruited in post-9/11 New York to become an inside man in the ‘war on terror’, then left in the fieldIn the movies, the classic hazard for the undercover operative is psychological meltdown after getting lost in their new identity. In real life, the dangers seem more prosaic: being treated as an expendable asset and dumped. That was the situation for Muslim Kosovan refugee Blerim Skoro who, despite years spent protecting US national security as a prison informant and al-Qaida mole, was threatened with deportation. His paymasters, the CIA and FBI, don’t emerge creditably from director Anthony Wonke’s headlong, if narrowly focused, account.Skoro seems to have a gift for being in the right or wrong place at the wrong or right time; it’s not obvious which. After deserting from the army during the 1990s Yugoslav war, he wound up as an asylum seeker in New York with a young family. But a new hustle, running drugs for the Alban...

Culture

3 w. ago Elaine Wynn, iconic billionaire hotel magnate and philanthropist ex

Elaine Wynn helped create the famed Wynn Hotels and Casinos with ex-husband Steve.

Society

3 w. ago Iconic billionaire hotel magnate and philanthropist dies aged 82

Elaine Wynn helped create the famed Wynn Hotels and Casinos with ex-husband Steve.

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4 w. ago Britain's asylum seeker 'sanctuaries': The towns and cities bucking the trend by welcoming migrants and refugees to their communities with open arms

EXCLUSIVE: The City of Sanctuary movement aims to make asylum seekers and refugees feel more welcome by persuading local voluntary groups to sign up as members.

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