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.
Italy has extended border controls involving Spain as Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani explicitly cites jihadist cells around Ceuta and the risk of infiltration following July’s migration crisis.
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.
The NCA has brought its first charge under a new offence targeting online promotion of unlawful immigration services, testing an enforcement strategy designed to intervene before an illegal journey occurs.
Portsmouth RNLI station is temporarily off service after disorder and hostility surrounding a migrant landing, as the small-boats conflict increasingly draws operational institutions into the political dispute.
Piddington has voted 285-26 to symbolically leave the UK in protest at plans for an asylum accommodation centre of up to 1,256 people near the village of roughly 350.
The government is considering a specific doxxing offence after RNLI volunteers, police officers and journalists had personal information posted online during anti-migrant protests.
