FOUR migrants who were filmed clambering off a lorry at the side of a busy road in broad daylight are still at large, police have admitted. The four men were recorded emerging onto the roof of a removals lorry that is understood to have travelled from Portugal before jumping off and heading towards bushes. It is believed they cut a hole through the soft top of the lorry to gain access. The remarkable scene was filmed by a concerned passerby in a layby off the A414 just outsid

THE Common Travel Area (CTA) is being exploited by huge numbers of illegal migrants, with 70 percent of immigration enforcement's work in Northern Ireland now having to be spent targeting abuse of it, a Government source has admitted. The stark admission comes in the wake of the barbaric attempted beheading of a man in Northern Ireland allegedly by a Sundanese asylum seeker. The CTA is a long-standing open borders zone comprising the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Isle of Man,

AN asylum seeker filmed trying to behead a man in a barbaric attack in a street in broad daylight said he entered the UK through the Common Travel Area (CTA) between southern and Northern Ireland, the Home Office said. The Sudanese attacker came into the country in 2023 and was granted five years leave to remain until 2028, it has emerged. A man, in his 30s, was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after a "brutal" knife attack was carried out on the victim in the Kinnai

POLICE have said there is no evidence to support the Epsom gang rape happening as reported. Full statement from Assistant Chief Constable for Local Policing Sarah Grahame: "Over the past week, there has been widespread speculation and commentary following a report of a rape in Epsom in the early hours of Saturday (11 April). We are aware of the strength of feeling this has created, and of the frustration caused by our limited public comment on the matter. During this time, we

FOUR Syrian nationals were arrested in Germany as part of a major probe into the supply of equipment to Channel migrant people smugglers. British National Crime Agency (NCA) officers joined international partners to target a network suspected of supplying the equipment to groups behind the dangerous Channel crossings by small boats to the UK. The raids, which took place in the North Rhine-Westphalia region on wednesday morning (March 25 2026), also saw boats and engines seize

Four taxi drivers who were part of a conspiracy to smuggle illegal migrants to France in the back of lorries have been sentenced following a National Crime Agency investigation. Kingpin Madjid Belabes, 54, was estimated to have made nearly £290,000 by orchestrating the plot to smuggle the migrants out of the UK. Belabes, who charged £1,200 a time, arranged the movement of migrants to mainland Europe 26 times between December 2022 and September 2023. He was also seen transport

NEARLY 135,000 asylum seekers entered the UK on student or other visas over the past five years, it has emerged. There has been a surge in asylum applications via legal entry routes, with them making up nearly 40 percent of all claims in 2025, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has admitted. She said tough action is now required as asylum claims from legal routes have more than trebled since 2021 – making up 39 percent of the 100,000 people who applied for asylum last year. In to

TENS of thousands of false asylum claims have been made in the UK each year, the Government has today admitted. Bogus asylum seekers have been lured to our shores by one of the most generous offers to refugees in any country in Western Europe, including permanent access to benefits, Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood said today, March 2 2026. She made the admissions as she announced sweeping changes that are hoped with prevent people making the hazardous illegal Channel croissing

TRAVELLERS and travelling showmen are cashing in on the UK housing crisis by cramming mobile homes onto their caravan sites and renting them out to anyone in an "illicit" property boom after years of claiming there is a drastic shortage of sites for their own communities. Sites across the country, meant to be occupied by people from the gypsy, traveller or travelling showmen communities under strict planning rules, are increasingly being let out to large numbers of non-travel

THE first illegal migrants have moved into the former military site Crowborough training camp in East Sussex, as part of the government’s mission to try to end the use of expensive hotels. The site accommodates single adult male illegal migrants who are claiming asylum in the UK in basic, safe accommodation while their claims are being assessed. The first 27 migrants have been moved into the site which will be scaled up to more than 500. They will only be housed there for