Alan Travis
SWEEPING new curbs on the appeal rights of illegal migrants, foreign prisoners and others facing deportation are to...
Published 02 Oct, 2013 07:04am
LONDON, Sept 12: More than 50,000 people were stopped and questioned at Britain's ports and airports as potential...
Published 13 Sep, 2013 07:24am
LONDON: It is the Queen's speech that nobody ever wants to hear. In 1983 senior British civil servants drafted a...
Updated 02 Aug, 2013 07:13am
LONDON: The five biggest internet companies in the world, including Google and Facebook, have privately delivered a...
Published 01 Jun, 2013 07:41am
LONDON: Crime in England and Wales fell sharply last year with an eight per cent drop recorded on police figures and...
Published 27 Apr, 2013 08:02am
LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron should urgently set up a royal commission to consider all the alternatives to Britain's failing drug laws, including decriminalisation and legalisation, an influential cross-party group of MPs has concluded.
Published 11 Dec, 2012 12:00am
LONDON: Net migration to Britain has fallen by a quarter over the past year, from 242,000 to 183,000, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reported
Published 01 Dec, 2012 01:02am
LONDON: A six-year study of Britain’s drug laws by leading scientists, police officers, academics and experts has concluded it is time to introduce decriminalisation
Published 16 Oct, 2012 12:17am
THE UK's universities minister, David Willetts, is to launch a global drive to “protect Britain's reputation” and spread the message that it remains open to students from overseas in the wake of the government's curbs on
Published 15 Sep, 2012 03:12am
MIGRANTS applying for a British passport will soon have to be able to recite the first verse of God Save the Queen, under an overhaul of the UK citizenship test this autumn.
Published 03 Jul, 2012 12:00am
BRITISH citizens with foreign-born partners are to be given the choice of indefinite ‘exile’ in countries including Yemen and Syria or face the breakup of their families if they want to remain in the UK, under radical immigration changes to be announced,
Published 11 Jun, 2012 12:00am
LONDON The majority of refugees and asylum seekers feel the average person in Britain welcomes them, according to an...
Published 15 Jun, 2010 12:00am
LONDON, June 8 The blanket treatment by staff of the 10,300 Muslim prisoners in England and Wales as potential...
Published 09 Jun, 2010 12:00am
THE UK Border Agency (UKBA) has failed properly to investigate claims of mistreatment by failed asylum seekers,...
Published 14 Mar, 2010 12:00am
THE crime rate in England and Wales fell by eight per cent over the past year, defying widespread predictions the...
Published 23 Jan, 2010 12:00am
THE Islamist group Islam4UK, which planned a march through Wootton Bassett — the English market town where honouring...
Published 14 Jan, 2010 12:00am
LONDON Only 33,000 of the 4.9m crimes British police recorded last year were solved as a result of a match on the...
Published 07 Jan, 2010 12:00am
TWO terrified youths who ran into a Staffordshire police station were in no doubt they had seen a UFO land in a ...
Published 18 Aug, 2009 12:00am
LONDON: The UK Home secretary, David Blunkett, plans to impose a Pounds Sterling 500 surcharge on each of the ...
Published 09 Dec, 2003 12:00am
LONDON: British ministers are close to a decision on the introduction of compulsory HIV and TB health screening ...
Published 25 Nov, 2003 12:00am
