Almost one-in-five lone child refugees from Albania have gone missing from care, Kent county council has confirmed. The local authority said 39 of the 197 Albanian children it has taken into care between January 1 and October 31 this year have gone missing. The revelation came to light following a freedom of information request by […]
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Matt Hancock has said the UK must “come down hard” on the South African coronavirus variant after community cases were found in eight areas across England. “Surge testing” will be carried out in the eight postcodes where a total of 105 cases of the SA variant – called 501Y.V2 – have been identified. Worryingly, 11 […]
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A press photographer has been arrested and held for seven hours by police for taking pictures of a protest outside a former barracks that houses asylum seekers in Kent. Andy Aitchison, 46, took photos of a demonstration outside Napier barracks on Thursday morning as protestors threw buckets of water mixed with food dye at the […]
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Boris Johnson and his secretary of state for transport laughed during Monday’s Downing Street press conference held to update the nation on the escalating chaos caused by Covid, Christmas and Brexit combining in a tumultuous storm. More than 40 countries have banned air and rail links to Britain as fears grow about the mutant coronavirus […]
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Families will be able to reunite at Christmas across the UK after the leaders of the four nations reach agreement about “bubbling” over the festivities. The rules will allow up to three households to meet-up and mix over five days between December 23-27, with travel restrictions around the whole of the UK relaxed for the […]
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