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‘Why risk getting charged for murder?’ Life inside the UK’s biggest firearms unit
Several months embedded with MO19, the Metropolitan Police's firearms unit, as a murder charge against one of its officers left colleagues asking whether the job was worth the…
‘You don’t realise how fragile life is’: How a punch killed a young British father – but did an attacker evade justice?
Matt Jeffery was killed by a single punch on a stag weekend in Zante. One man was jailed. Our investigation asks whether the man who threw the punch…
Police pantomime and migrants shopping for life jackets: Inside the route to the Channel
In the darkness of the dunes more than 100 migrants are poised, getting ready to run.
Asylum seekers face being removed from Epping hotel after council granted High Court injunction
The Bell Hotel has to stop housing asylum seekers by 12 September after Epping Forest District Council argued it was not being used for its intended purpose as…
UK’s trade envoy to Turkey resigns following visit to Northern Cyprus
The MP for Manchester Rusholme, Afzal Khan, has resigned following a trip to the territory, which is not recognised by the British government as a self-declared independent nation.
Woman charged with assaulting security guard at hotel housing migrants – after resident ‘walked into her flat’
Channay Augustus is accused of assaulting a police officer, assault by beating, threatening someone with a knife, and a cannabis offence.
Church of England facing ‘time of reckoning’ in wake of scandals and historical abuse claims
The Church of England's Synod will be debating and voting on new safeguarding measures in the wake of multiple scandals.
Thousands of Palestinians are in Israeli jails – one father hopes the ceasefire will bring his son home
Before 7 October, the biggest prisoner handover came after the release of Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in 2011. He was abducted in a cross-border tunnel raid and held…
GPS-tagged asylum seeker trial ended with ‘no benefit’, Home Office says
The trial was launched in June 2022 and ran until December 2023, involving 1,200 asylum seekers split into two groups.
Syrian asylum seeker fears homelessness after claim paused
The UK government has paused Syrian asylum claims following the fall of the Assad regime. But the decision has left this family in limbo.
Grenfell Inquiry: The companies and organisations named and shamed in report
The inquiry, led by Sir Martin Moore-Bick, says failings can be traced back over many years despite "warning signs" about building materials going back to the early 90s.
Grenfell Tower legal powers to fix fire safety crisis are being ignored
Seven years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people, legislation enacted to end Britain's building safety crisis and tackle the issue of dangerous cladding is…
Dagenham fire: Tower block that went up in flames was in the middle of having cladding replaced
Work to replace cladding with new, highly fire-resistant panels had begun, but less than a week ago, the supplier said the project was not complete.
More than 100 migrants face being in UK illegally as care agency is stripped of ability to endorse visas
Muhammad moved to the UK with his four children after paying a recruitment agent £19,000 - however soon after arriving in the country he found out there was…
‘Town’s getting multicultural and that’s good’: How Swindon views changes in its workforce
The town has dozens of small businesses with diverse heritage - and some see it as evidence of how essential migrants are to Britain's economy, while others will…
Families in England left homeless despite 33,000 empty council homes
Sky News has found more than 6,000 publicly-owned homes in England have been empty for over a year - yet 145,800 children are homeless and living in temporary…
‘It’s David and Goliath’: The Yorkshire residents fighting for tenants’ rights
Residents in one neighbourhood outside Sheffield are determined to make their shoddy homes and derelict surrounding properties an issue in the general election.
More than 10,000 migrants arrive in UK by crossing Channel in small boats this year
The largest single day of crossings was 1 May, when 711 people arrived, coinciding with the start of typically calmer conditions at sea.
One-year-old Massah was born in UK – now she’s being ordered to leave to ‘maintain integrity of immigration laws’
The child's parents, who are both in the UK legally, are having "sleepless nights" after officials told them she would need to leave the UK and re-apply for…
More than half of asylum seekers allocated for removal to Rwanda cannot be found, according to government’s own report
The first deportation flights to Rwanda are planned for this July, which indicates no one who arrived in Britain on a small boat during the previous year will…
Rwanda plan will cause ‘meltdown’ in UK asylum system, Refugee Council says
The bill, which passed parliament this week, is a "futile waste of resources" that will see only a "small proportion" of asylum seekers returned to their own country…
Sex offender allowed to stay in UK – as more than half of appeals against asylum decisions successful
Two-thirds of applicants who were refused asylum were not recorded as having left the UK.
Hull: The city where hundreds of failed asylum seekers go ‘under the radar’
It's estimated in Hull there are between 300 and 400 asylum seekers whose claims have been refused.
Churches ‘brought into disrepute’ over Clapham attacker Abdul Ezedi’s asylum claim, Christian organisation says
Someone converting to Christianity should "renounce their former faith" and "accept that Jesus is the only God", Christian Concern says.
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