9 h. ago Epping migrant hotel protest organiser, 40, is charged after climbing council building and unfurling Union Jack flag

Mother-of-five Sarah White, 40, was arrested at Epping District Council offices on Sunday night when she displayed the flag from the steps.

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9 h. ago Yvette Cooper encourages public to fly St George’s flag ‘anywhere’ as she does at home

Yvette Cooper has revealed that she has Union Jack and St George’s flags scattered around her home, and has encouraged Britons to display the emblems, saying people should “put them up anywhere”.

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10 h. ago Revealed: organiser of campaign to fly Union Jacks and England flags on Britain's streets was previously jailed over a plot to smuggle illegal immigrants into the country

Lee Twamley is part of a group calling themselves 'Churchill's Lions' which last week raised British flags along one of Manchester's main shopping streets.

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16 h. ago Mother who flew Union Jack from council building at Epping protest hits out at 'disgusting' arrest

Sarah White, who is a Reform UK member, has been released after spending 24 hours in police custody

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32 h. ago Sri Lankan mother who entered Britain wins appeal for her asylum claim to be reheard

In her asylum claim, the mother of five said she suffers from severe depression and is 'not fit to fly' until she recovers from the disorder.

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37 h. ago Moment Epping migrant hotel protest organiser is arrested as she tries to fly Union Jack flag on council building

Footage a woman holding the flag above an entrance to Epping District Council's Civic Centre at 7.15pm yesterday.

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42 h. ago Voting for Brexit, stopping the small boats – none of it will ever appease those who wage war on immigration | Nesrine Malik

The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicityA few weeks after the Brexit referendum, a leave-voting friend of mine told me what the biggest benefit would be. “We will never hear about immigration again,” he said. If you give the people the control over the border they want, the logic went, then Brexit will finally dissolve immigration as an issue that politicians can exploit, and the country can crack on with all the other important stuff that needs doing. And, well, let’s just say that this prediction did not pan out on such a colossal level that no follow-up conversation has been necessary.Because that’s just not how the whole immigration thing works. The goalposts always move. Nothing clarifies that more than Nigel Farage getting everything he has said he ever wanted, the country heaving itself out of the EU and ending free movement, only for another boil to fester around the issue of immigration – and gue...

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42 h. ago Vote Brexit, stop the boats – the goalposts on immigration keep moving, and those who oppose it will never be appeased | Nesrine Malik

The facts and the numbers are irrelevant: Donald Trump and Nigel Farage just find new excuses and increase the toxicityA few weeks after the Brexit referendum, a leave-voting friend of mine told me what the biggest benefit would be. “We will never hear about immigration again,” he said. If you give the people the control over the border they want, the logic went, then Brexit will finally dissolve immigration as an issue that politicians can exploit, and the country can crack on with all the other important stuff that needs doing. And, well, let’s just say that this prediction did not pan out on such a colossal level that no follow-up conversation has been necessary.Because that’s just not how the whole immigration thing works. The goalposts always move. Nothing clarifies that more than Nigel Farage getting everything he has said he ever wanted, the country heaving itself out of the EU and ending free movement, only for another boil to fester around the issue of immigration – and gue...

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51 h. ago Judge orders US to halt deportation of hundreds of Guatemalan children

Washington judge says unaccompanied children cannot be deported for at least 14 days as legal process unfoldsA US judge on Sunday ordered an emergency halt to a plan by the Trump administration to deport a group of nearly 700 unaccompanied Guatemalan children back to their home country after immigrant advocates lawyers called the plan “illegal”.Attorneys for 10 Guatemalan minors, ages 10 to 17, said in court papers filed late on Saturday that there were reports that planes were set to take off within hours for the Central American country. But a federal judge in Washington said those children couldn’t be deported for at least 14 days, and after a hastily scheduled hearing on Sunday, she enforced that they needed to be taken off the planes and back to the Office of Refugee Resettlement facilities while the legal process plays out. Continue reading...

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52 h. ago JB Pritzker calls for ‘all to stand up’ to Trump’s immigration crackdown in Chicago

President is preparing for controversial federal takeover of US city in crusade against immigration ‘sanctuary cities’Illinois’s governor JB Pritzker has called on “all to stand up” to Donald Trump as the US president prepares to launch a federally led immigration crackdown across Chicago, a plan which has been met with widespread backlash from local leaders and the public.Pritzker’s comments come as White House officials vow to target Chicago next in its sweeping immigration crackdowns across the country. Recently, the White House requested that a US military base on the outskirts of Chicago assist with immigration operations as the Trump administration plans a broader takeover of Democratic-run “sanctuary cities”. Continue reading...

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55 h. ago 'Britain's best high street' where locals claim big name brands aren't welcome

Marlborough in Wiltshire has been named as having one of the best high streets in the UK, and locals say they are 'fortunate' to have such a thriving town centre

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65 h. ago The Manchester street where England flags and Union Jacks hang from almost every lamppost

Dozens of flags have been put up on Victoria Avenue in Higher Blackley. Damon Wilkinson went to find out what local people think about it all.

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3 d. ago Thousands of England flags flown across UK pulled down straight away in row

Campaigners believe the flags have been erected following an online movement called "Operation Raise the Colours" and HopenotHate claims this is linked to extreme far-right activists

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3 d. ago The reason England and Union Jack flags are appearing across Greater Manchester and beyond

It's part of a national trend, but some have questioned its motives

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3 d. ago Why England and Union Jack flags are appearing across Greater Manchester and beyond

It's part of a national trend, but some have questioned its motives

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3 d. ago ‘I felt like the walls were closing in. All I could see was Fred West’s face’: how one woman escaped Britain’s worst serial killers

When Kathleen Richards rented a room at 25 Cromwell Street, she quickly realised the couple who owned it had a dark side. But even after their arrest, there was something about her 15 months at the house that she could never tell anyone – until nowKathleen Richards knows how lucky she is to be alive. In 1979, she woke up in bed to find the serial killer Fred West on top of her. It was by no means the first time West had assaulted the 17-year-old, but it was the last. This time, she managed to escape from the room she was renting at 25 Cromwell Street, perhaps Britain’s most notorious address, where Fred and Rose West raped, tortured and murdered so many girls and young women. Fred West took his own life in January 1995 while on remand, charged with 12 murders. Rose West was convicted of 10 murders later that year and is serving a whole-life sentence.In her own way, Richards has also been serving a life sentence. Today, she is a youthful, likable and traumatised 65-year-old. How...

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3 d. ago Never mind the flag bans, where are the policies? Assessing 100 days of Reform

Some are happy to see new faces in the chambers but many are frustrated with a lack of improvements on the ground since party’s sweeping victories“This motion is bizarre to say the least,” said a bemused Doncaster Labour councillor as Reform proposed that the council fly no flags apart from the union flag from its buildings.It would not just mean no Pride flag on Pride Day, a debate heard. It would mean no white rose flag on Yorkshire Day, no Rovers flag celebrating the football team winning the league, no St George’s flag marking England’s Lionesses’ Euros triumph, and no green flags celebrating municipal park management achievements in the city’s green spaces. The motion was “a waste of time and a waste of resources”, one councillor said. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Boastful prison photo shows unrepentant gang living it up behind bars after being jailed over plot to shoot 'Britain's most hated rapper'

Members of the Harrow Road Boys gang, who plotted to gun down rival rapper Digga D and wreaked havoc on west London, posed for a boastful prison snap where they threw up gun signs.

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4 d. ago Council offers support to staff who feel 'unsettled' by St George's flags as it may 'evoke feelings of discomfort'

Essex country council bosses sent out an email to workers addressing the increasing number of England flags being raised across the country.

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4 d. ago Police looking for pair who painted England flags on Islamic centre

The two men also used spray paint to write ‘this is England’ on the building in Vange, Essex

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