13 h. ago Home secretary intervenes to try to halt bid to ban asylum seekers at protest

Yvette Cooper is attempting to ‘derail’ court process, council tells High Court judge

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37 h. ago Men in court charged with violent disorder after protests outside migrant hotel

Protests began after a migrant who was housed at the property was charged with sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl.

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38 h. ago Moment UK music festival descends into utter chaos as 'unruly' crowds throw bottles, storm the stage and scramble over fences

Thousands had descended on Addingdon Park in Croydon over the weekend for the SandZ Caribbean music festival, which had promised two days of 'non-stop vibes'.

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39 h. ago London travel news LIVE: Westminster Bridge reopened following police incident

Live updates on London’s latest travel news across Tube, railways and roads

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43 h. ago London travel news LIVE: Westminster Bridge closed due to police incident

Live updates on London’s latest travel news across Tube, railways and roads

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55 h. ago Migrant protests RECAP: Police rush to migrant hotel as crowds stage angry protest

Migrant protests RECAP: Police rush to migrant hotel as crowds stage angry protest  Daily Express

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57 h. ago Migrant protests LIVE: Police rush to migrant hotel as crowds stage angry protest

Migrant protests LIVE: Police rush to migrant hotel as crowds stage angry protest  Daily Express

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60 h. ago Protesters gather outside Canary Wharf asylum hotel in fresh anti

Protesters gather outside Canary Wharf asylum hotel in fresh anti-migrant demonstrations after resident 'entered blind woman's flat'  Daily Mail

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3 d. ago Kings Hill LIVE as 'men in balaclavas' scale huge building with armed police rushing to scene

Armed police have rushed to a "disused" building in Kings Hill, West Malling, Kent, in an ongoing "disturbance" and masked people having been seen on a roof top

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3 d. ago Live updates as police and forensics' incident shuts Merthyr Tydfil road

'The area is a crime scene that needs forensics to carry out their work'

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3 d. ago Police issue statement over Merthyr Tydfil 'stabbing' that saw road closed

A man has been arrested on suspicion of causing grievous bodily harm

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4 d. ago Woman 'took meat cleaver to asylum hotel protests' after migrant entered mum's home

Channay Augustus, 22, was allegedly part of a group of about 20 people who tried to barge into the Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf, east London, on Wednesday evening.

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4 d. ago Live M62 traffic updates as 'police incident' in Cheshire leaves motorway closed

The westbound carriageway is shut near Warrington

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4 d. ago Woman 'took meat cleaver to asylum hotel protests' after migrant enters mum's home

Thames Magistrates' Court heard that Channay Augustus came to a hotel being used to house asylum seekers armed with a meat cleaver after finding a migrant in her mum's home

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4 d. ago White House defends DC takeover of police after city alleges ‘brazen usurpation’ in lawsuit against Trump administration – live

Trump police takeover will create ‘immediate, devastating, and irreparable harm’ for DC, federal lawsuit saysDC sues Trump administration over ‘hostile takeover’ of city policeWashington DC’s only Home Depot was busy with contractors and customers on Thursday morning – but the Hispanic day laborers who usually gather and wait for work under the parking lot’s sparse trees were nowhere to be found.Two days earlier, masked federal agents swarmed the area and made several arrests, which were photographed by bystanders and posted on social media. Juwan Brooks, a store employee who witnessed the raid, said the agents grabbed anyone who appeared Hispanic. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago DC sues Trump administration over ‘brazen usurpation’ of local police as Bondi ends city’s ‘sanctuary policies’ – live

Trump police takeover will create ‘immediate, devastating, and irreparable harm’ for DC, federal lawsuit saysDC sues Trump administration over ‘hostile takeover’ of city policeWashington DC’s only Home Depot was busy with contractors and customers on Thursday morning – but the Hispanic day laborers who usually gather and wait for work under the parking lot’s sparse trees were nowhere to be found.Two days earlier, masked federal agents swarmed the area and made several arrests, which were photographed by bystanders and posted on social media. Juwan Brooks, a store employee who witnessed the raid, said the agents grabbed anyone who appeared Hispanic. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago DC sues Trump over police takeover as Bondi ends city’s ‘sanctuary policies’ and homeless encampments are cleared – live

Washington DC attorney general says Trump administration moves are ‘brazenly unlawful’ and ‘infringe on the District’s right to self-governance’DC sues Trump administration over ‘hostile takeover’ of city policeWashington DC’s only Home Depot was busy with contractors and customers on Thursday morning – but the Hispanic day laborers who usually gather and wait for work under the parking lot’s sparse trees were nowhere to be found.Two days earlier, masked federal agents swarmed the area and made several arrests, which were photographed by bystanders and posted on social media. Juwan Brooks, a store employee who witnessed the raid, said the agents grabbed anyone who appeared Hispanic. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Voices: Facial recognition cameras mistook me for a wanted man – I worry who’ll be next

Shaun Thompson was wrongly identified as a criminal by new police cameras. Here, he explains why, if this technology is rolled out across the country, or is used at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival, as planned, such injustices will disproportionately affect Black people

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4 d. ago Epping asylum seeker hotel has become ‘feeding ground for unrest’, says council seeking ban

Epping Forest District Council has applied for High Court injunction in bid to stop The Bell hotel housing asylum seekers

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5 d. ago Trump repeats false claims about DC crime and praises order allowing city police to work closer with Ice agents – live updates

Trump says, without evidence, that law enforcement officials who have created ‘fake’ crime statistics, are ‘under investigation’Melania Trump has demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to the sex offender Jeffrey Epstein and has threatened to sue if he does not.Biden, the son of the former president Joe Biden, alleged in an interview this month that Epstein introduced the first lady to Donald Trump. Continue reading...

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