6 h. ago Welcome to the Little Chagos Islands! Single London council faces £18m bill as it is forced to house hundreds from the Indian isles on top of its asylum seekers quota

Hillingdon, which is close to Heathrow, has at any time an average of 2,700 asylum seekers housed in hotels surrounding the airport, one of the highest rates in the country.

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7 h. ago Welcome to the Little Chagos Islands! Single London council forced to spend £18million to house hundreds people from the Indian isles on top of their asylum seekers quota

Hillingdon, which is close to Heathrow, has at any time an average of 2,700 asylum seekers housed in hotels surrounding the airport, one of the highest rates in the country.

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26 h. ago Unite votes to suspend Angela Rayner membership over Birmingham bin strikes

Union, to which deputy PM may not belong, also votes to reconsider ties with Labour if council forces through redundanciesUK politics live – latest updatesUnite has voted to suspend the membership of the deputy prime minister, Angela Rayner, and reconsider its ties with Labour over their approach to the Birmingham bin workers’ strike.Labour’s biggest union donor passed the motion at its policy conference on Friday, despite party sources saying Rayner had resigned her membership of Unite months ago. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago With the world in crisis, many say end globalisation. I say that would be a mistake | Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Terms like ‘deglobalisation’ have become commonplace, but what we need is true multilateralism. Erecting walls won’t bring us peace and prosperityLuiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of BrazilThe year 2025 should be a time of celebration, marking eight decades of the United Nations’ existence. But it risks going down in history as the year when the international order built since 1945 collapsed.The cracks had long been visible. Since the invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, the intervention in Libya and the war in Ukraine, some permanent members of the security council have trivialised the illegal use of force. The failure to act vis-a-vis the genocide in Gaza represents a denial of the most basic values of humanity. The inability to overcome differences is fuelling a new escalation of violence in the Middle East, the latest chapter of which includes the attack on Iran.Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is the president of BrazilDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article...

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49 h. ago Council 'overwhelmed' by arrival of hundreds of Chagos Islanders calls for help after hundreds arrived before Starmer signed his sell

Hillingdon council have urged the Government to 'do the right thing' as they say a continued influx of Chagos Islanders after Britain agreed to hand over the former territory to Mauritius.

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50 h. ago Overwhelmed council calls for help after hundreds of Chagos Islanders turn up on its doorstep

Hillingdon council have urged the Government to 'do the right thing' as they say a continued influx of Chagos Islanders after Britain agreed to hand over the former territory to Mauritius.

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51 h. ago Tiny London studio flat costing £1,250 a month is so small the tenant has to sleep on a tiny children's

The pokey pad, on Petherton Road between Canonbury and Highbury, north London , is described as 'ideal for a single working occupant'.

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61 h. ago Belfast bonfire declared 'major incident' by PSNI amid paramilitary disorder warnings

Police said the force had received a formal request for assistance from Belfast City Council in relation to the removal of material from the bonfire site at Meridi Street

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4 d. ago Famous join forces with Ava Gore on new single, "Demons in London"

Famous join forces with Ava Gore on new single, "Demons in London"  The Line of Best Fit

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5 d. ago Armed Forces Day banned from featuring military equipment by Labour council 'over fears of protests from pro

York City Council ignited fury over its 'absolutely bonkers' decision to bar one of its local army units from attending its Armed Forces Day celebration with its Jackal vehicle amid protest fears.

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5 d. ago Ben Stokes’ waning influence with the bat on display in England’s soggy defeat | Andy Bull

Captain was bamboozled by Jadeja’s bowling before falling to Washington Sundar in crushing second Test loss to IndiaIt was raining hard in Birmingham on Sunday morning. A weight of great black clouds broke over the city while it was feeling its way into the day. On the streets people pressed themselves together under the cover of bus stops and awnings: revellers off to the Queens Heath pride festival, heavy metal lovers making their way home after Black Sabbath’s farewell gig at Villa Park the previous evening, and cricket supporters bound for the ground, most of them with last-minute tickets, split between anxious Indian and wry English fans, the only people in the city who were happy enough to be getting wet.The bad weather was about the only way England were going to get out of this match with a draw. A team who have spent three years learning how to do the improbable were in no position at all to attempt the unremarkable and bat out the match, even after the rain had washed out ...

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6 d. ago Labour council criticised after banning military equipment from Armed Forces Day celebrations

Protest groups say Armed Forces Day glorifies violence and military equipment in front of children

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9 d. ago Popular fruit urgently recalled due to vomiting, fever and diarrhoea risk

Hundreds of boxes of the common household fruit have been whipped from shelves amid health fears

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1 week ago London landlord slammed after advertising a 'beautiful' room for £1,175 per month with a SINGLE BED

A London-based landlord has met with furious criticism after a picture of the room she was letting went viral on social media. 

Economics

1 week ago Wimbledon 2025 women’s singles preview, prediction: Sabalenka, Gauff — or will London deliver another surprise?

Wimbledon 2025 women’s singles preview, prediction: Sabalenka, Gauff — or will London deliver another surprise?  Hindustan Times

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2 w. ago Families to be allowed back to Traveller site closed for the past year following ‘unacceptable levels of crime and violence’

The Crompton Lodge site was forcibly closed in June 2024 after the police and council said the local community had been subjected to 'unacceptable levels of crime'

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2 w. ago Energy price cap scrap would save households hundreds, analysis finds

Those in the south could see bills rise under the proposed new system

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2 w. ago Amazon Fire Stick rival offers a new way to stream live TV, Netflix and Disney+

The handy devices allow households to stream hundreds of TV channels, shows and films in high quality

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2 w. ago House 'containing hundreds of gas canisters' is destroyed in huge explosion that 'sounded like a nuclear bomb going off'

Two people have been seriously injured after a house was destroyed in an explosion that sounded 'like a nuclear bomb going off' - with hundreds of butane gas canisters pictured in the wreckage.

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2 w. ago House 'containing hundreds of butane gas canisters' is destroyed in huge explosion that 'sounded like a nuclear bomb going off'

Two people have been seriously injured after a house was destroyed in an explosion that sounded 'like a nuclear bomb going off' - with hundreds of butane gas canisters pictured in the wreckage.

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