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Former Downing Street director of communications Lee Cain leaves after giving a statement to the UK Covid-19 Inquiry at Dorland House in London. PIC: James Manning/PA Wire

Behaviour in Downing Street set the wrong example - Dr Alan Billings

Bibby Stockholm barge used to house asylum seekers

'Huge challenge' over asylum cases backlog, MPs warn

View of outside Leeds City Station and the Platform Building looking along Bishopgate. PIC: Tony Johnson

The Government must find the money for the mass-transit system - Andrew Vine

Former Royal Air Force Station, RAF Linton-on-Ouse is pictured in the village of Linton-on-Ouse, near York.

Home Office spent £3 million on scrapped plan for Linton-on-Ouse

The flats were a short walk from the University of Huddersfield. An artist's impression of the new University of Huddersfield health campus to be built next to the ring road. (Image: AHR Architects Ltd)

Students to find new accommodation after flats used to house asylum seekers

Catterick Garrison

'No timescale' for when migrants will be moved to Catterick Garrison

The party which produced Churchill, Thatcher and Heath has been reduced to endorsing the foulest, meanest of sentiments against people fleeing war and persecution, says Greg Wright (Photo by PA)

Why the legal task force is a distraction from the asylum backlog: Greg Wright

Yesterday a Home Office minister confirmed that the Government was looking at “additional measures” including transporting asylum seekers to Ascension Island, some 4,000 miles away.

Ministers revisit plans to send migrants to island in the South Atlantic

Fans during the Leeds Festival 2022 at Bramham Park in Leeds. Picture: Danny Lawson

Home Office blocking festival drug testing risks young lives: Jayne Dowle

Police and Crime Commissioner Dr Alan Billings.

Successful funding bids secure £3m to help local crime victims: Alan Billings

Wakefield, Kirklees and Calderdale councils sought injunctions over Home Office asylum seeker hotel plans

Councils sought injunctions over Home Office asylum seeker hotel plans

Home Secretary Suella Braverman claims that there is "abuse of our asylum system".

Port operator says asylum barges 'not viable'

St Pierre Hotel, in Newmillerdam

Anger at Home Office plan to house asylum seekers at hotel ‘within days’

The number of players a club can bring in will be proportional the number of English players they play. Image: Alex Morton/Getty Images

FA announce criteria that may impact transfer business at Yorkshire clubs

'There is scepticism with the increasingly tough talk on migration - now with the Home Secretary seeking to detain and deport almost all asylum seekers who arrive irregularly, giving none of them a chance of a fair hearing.' PIC: PA

Why politicians should not panic over net migration figures - Ryan Shorthouse

90 people still living at the bridging hotel in Scarborough could become homeless on August 16.

Afghan families warned they could be evicted from Yorkshire seaside hotel

The four MPs who claimed driving fines on expenses revealed

Prince Harry

Prince Harry loses bid to challenge decision over UK security plans

The issue was discussed at a panel event at the UKREiiF conference in Leeds

'Broken' housing market to blame for 50,000 asylum seekers being in hotels

Queen Elizabeth II: Government forked £162 million on state funeral

Cost of Queen Elizabeth II’s state funeral revealed by Government

Men in the UK being offered £10,000 to pose as dads for migrant women’s babies in visa scam

UK men being offered £10,000 to pose as dads in visa scam
An investigation has found that men in the UK are being offered thousands of pounds to pose as fathers for migrant women’s babies in a visa scam.

Fraud now accounts for more than 40 percent of all crime in England and Wales, according to the National Audit Office.

Why the Government is finally acting to tackle the rising tide of fraud

Suella Braverman. Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images.

The Illegal Migration Bill won't address asylum numbers - Mikhail Korneev

Picture: Simon Hulme.

Trust in police just as important as recruit numbers - The Yorkshire Post says

Campaigners outside Linton-on-Ouse Village Hall

How Yorkshire community took on Government asylum seeker plan - and won

CCTV footage shows police storming a couple's Essex pub and seizing their golliwog dolls, saying the toys were a suspected hate crime (Photos: SWNS)

CAMRA makes damning verdict on pub at centre of Gollies row

MI5 has warned ministers of Chinese spies who buy citizenship through third countries to gain access to the UK.

Ministers warned of Chinese spies who slip through the UK

The top 10 UK burglary hotspots have been revealed

List shows top 10 burglary hotspots in the UK

Undated handout photo issued by Bibby Marine Ltd of the Bibby Stockholm accommodation barge, a 222 bedroom, three-storey vessel, which can house up to 506 people. The Home Office has confirmed it has leased a barge to accommodate around 500 migrants in Portland, Dorset. Issue date: Wednesday April 5, 2023.

Asylum processing centres could cause humanitarian crisis, campaigners warn

The Bibby Stockholm will house 500 people (Photo: Home Office)

More than 500 asylum seekers to be housed on barge off coast

Catterick, in Mr Sunak’s constituency of Richmond, is home to the largest British Army garrison in the world.

Catterick Garrison to be used for housing asylum seekers, minister says

Yvette Cooper is the Shadow Home Secretary. PIC: Hollie Adams/Getty Images

Home Secretary lacks plan to restore trust in policing - Yvette Cooper
The report published by Louise Casey, commissioned by the Mayor of London, into standards and culture in the Metropolitan police service is thorough, forensic and truly damning. It finds that consent is broken, management of the force has failed and frontline policing - especially neighbourhood policing - has been deprioritised and degraded after a decade of austerity.

Police searching for Madeleine McCann to get extra funding

Martin Lewis has issued guidance to British holidaymakers heading abroad soon

Money Saving Expert team issues passport warning to holidaymakers

'The Home Secretary said that at the present rate, 80,000 could cross in 2023'. PIC: DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images

Focus should be on the boats to tackle the migrant crisis - Dr Alan Billings

Data has revealed how many people are being prosecuted each week for failing to pay their BBC TV licence

TV licence row as thousands prosecuted each week for failing to pay

BOYCOTT: Premier League footballers such as Leeds United's Patrick Bamford will not be asked to do interviews for Match of the Day this evening

Why Leeds United players will not be interviewed by Match of the Day tonight

dangerous domestic abusers will be recorded on the violent and sex offender register under new government proposals (Photo: Adobe)

Domestic abusers could be added to violent and sex offender list

Passport fees have increased for the first time in five years - here’s how much they now cost

New passport prices for adults & children as fees increase

DNP is used as a ‘slimming pill’ (not pictured) and has killed 33 people in the UK.

‘Slimming pill’ DNP to be classified as poison after 33 deaths

You can renew your UK passport online.

Countdown to passport price hike - how to apply before charge increase

Home Office vows law change to protect victims of sexual assault

British passport prices are set to rise next month

Passport application fees to increase next month

Emirates’ Airbus A3800-800 airliner approaches Heathrow international airport, where Border Force agents discovered a package contaminated with uranium in December

Scotland Yard continue investigations in uranium contaminated package

Research suggests that nearly one in five police officers plan to quit within the next two years amid low morale and dissatisfaction over pay.

Low morale in police forces should be a cause for concern - The YP says

The Lawns, Cottingham

University rules out sale of former student halls to house asylum seekers

Home Secretary Suella Braverman said she was "committed" to making the plan work. PIC: JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images

Compassion and care needed over asylum policy - The Yorkshire Post says

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper responds after Home Secretary Suella Braverman made a statement to MPs in the House of Commons, London, following the deaths of four people after a migrant boat capsized in the English Channel. Picture date: Wednesday December 14, 2022.

Yvette Cooper slams Government's failure in preventing small boats tragedies

Humberside PCC Jonathan Evison

Asylum seekers don't cause crime, says Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner

York city centre. (Pic credit: James Hardisty)

York asylum seekers: Yorkshire charities appeal for item donations

Detainees are seen inside the Manston holding centre for asylum seekers. Immigration minister Robert Jenrick this week vowed "more radical" policies to counter illegal migration.

Diphtheria confirmed at asylum centre following man’s death

‘Potentially hazardous’ substance found on body dumped in UK street - residents unable to leave their homes

‘Potentially hazardous’ substance found on body dumped in UK street

Yusef, 28, and Khalid, 25, said they now hoped build new lives in the UK after fleeing Syria

Asylum seekers from Syria staying in hotel say they're 'grateful' to have refuge

People arrived in the hotel, in Ferriby High Road, on Wednesday after the High Court ruled against the council’s bid to extend its injunction against its use on planning grounds.

Calls for Home Office to consult authorities on plans to house asylum seekers

York Hospital

Hospital 'vulnerable' as nurse accommodation wanted for asylum seekers

A group of people thought to be migrants being brought in to Dover, Kent. Photo credit: Gareth Fuller/PA Wire

Asylum seeker in Yorkshire hotel for a year says he feels 'useless'

East Riding of Yorkshire Council

Yorkshire council loses fight to stop asylum seekers being housed in hotel

Asylum seekers could be moved to a hotel near to Rishi Sunak's Yorkshire home

Concern over plan to house asylum seekers in Yorkshire hotel close to PM's home

Councillor Angela Argenzio, co-chair of the adult health and social care committee

Asylum seekers in Yorkshire 'left to starve and eat food chewed by relative'

Many asylum seekers have risked everything to start a new life in Britain, says Greg Wright

'Many asylum seekers have risked everything to seek new life in Britain'