Europol has confirmed six arrests in a 17-country investigation into an alleged network using fraudulent documents to smuggle migrants towards the UK by air.
A small boat carrying 51 migrants reached Dover after more than 33 hours in the Channel despite repeated offers of assistance from French authorities.
The Home Secretary has ordered an urgent review after a second small boat in two days reached the Kent coast before Border Force interception.
Five people were detained after a migrant dinghy reached Folkestone without being intercepted at sea, the first officially recorded unescorted landing for more than a year.
UK borrowing reached £18.3 billion in August, while borrowing in the first five months of the financial year ran £8.1 billion above the OBR forecast.
Britain will deploy an RAF Voyager tanker to provide air-to-air refuelling support for Saudi combat aircraft following recent Houthi attacks.
The Treasury is considering lowering England’s planned high-value property surcharge threshold from £2m to £1.5m, potentially bringing around 271,000 homes into scope.
Small UK food and craft businesses are being targeted by convincing festival impersonation scams as police record a 395% rise in fraud reports where victims identified AI as a factor.
Glasgow’s council leader has backed a temporary pause on further asylum placements as the city houses 3,938 Home Office-supported asylum seekers, far more than any other UK local authority.
Apple and civil-liberties groups are challenging Britain’s refusal to confirm a reported order seeking access to UK users’ encrypted cloud data, raising questions about both encryption security and secret surveillance powers.
