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RAF planes swoop in to rescue UK nationals from Sudan after daring SAS mission
The plan comes after a crunch meeting of the Government's Cobra emergencies committee last night, with two warships ons standby in the region and military planes stationed at an airfield outside the capital, Khartoum
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Brit called Shamina detained at airport 'for having same name as Shamima Begum'
A woman who has a similar name to former Isis bride Shamima Begum says she was surrounded by officers at a UK airport and detained for three hours for questioning
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'Incompetent' Tories failing to order Border Force boats despite migrant crisis
A former Defence Minister lashed out at the Government after the Immigration Minister admitted "formal discussions" on ordering new cutters and patrol craft had not even been held
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Military-grade weapons which can fire 15 bullets in under a second on UK streets
Detectives at Merseyside Police said at least three fatal shootings last year involved a Skorpion sub-machine gun, manufactured in Czech, but not in the case of Olivia Pratt-Korbel’s murder
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Border Force workers set to strike ahead of May bank holiday weekend
On April 28 as many as 15,000 Border Force workers represented by PCS Union could walk out at airports and ports across the UK, potentially leading to chaos at travel hubs
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Gold bars worth more than £4m 'belonging to cocaine cartels' seized at Heathrow
Huge gold bars and cylinders weighing more than 16 stone were seized by Border Force at Heathrow Airport, which were believed to belong to South American drug cartels
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Airline passenger smuggled 83,000 cigarettes into UK avoiding £28k duty tax bill
Samuel Onyemenam has his suitcases X-rayed after he arrived on a flight from Nigeria at Newcastle International Airport where border control officers found the £28k haul
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Suella Braverman's Illegal Migration Bill at-a-glance as UN voices alarm
The Home Secretary has unveiled controversial legislation aimed at tackling the number of people who arrive in the UK by small boat - but she conceded that there may be some legal wrangling to come
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Rishi Sunak resorts to Channel 'gimmick' as France refuses to take back arrivals
The Prime Minister will travel to Paris on Friday, but has failed to persuade French President Emmanuel Macron to take back asylum seekers who cross the Channel
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Travel expert says Brits will soon no longer need paper passports at airports
Chris Briggs, senior president of identity at document verification company Mitek, has said digital IDs will soon be a reality, following an intervention by former Prime Minister Tony Blair and former Conservative chief William Hague
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Couple tried to smuggle two Iraqi migrants into UK by hiding them in sofa bases
A middle-aged couple were caught attempting to smuggle two Iraqi immigrants into the UK by alert Border Force officers who found them inside the bases of two sofas in their van
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UK airports trial new passport gate rules for children this half-term
Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted airports are taking part in the e-gate trial this week, with the decision whether to roll out the scheme across the UK in the hands Border Force
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Heathrow boss says airport is ‘back to its best’ as passenger numbers soar
Heathrow Airport CEO John Holland-Kaye has hailed the travel hub's successes after a difficult few years, with passengers numbers up but also the potential of strikes looming
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Sunak and Tories accused of 'scandalous catalogue of waste' with lavish spending
In a new dossier, Keir Starmer's Labour claims taxpayers' money has been used to fund extravagant events, expensive restaurants and five-star hotels using Government Procurement Cards
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Brits heading on half term holidays warned to prepare for long delays
The Government has issued a warning to travellers ahead of members of the Public and Commercial Services union based in Dover and French ports including Calais and Dunkirk going on strike
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Sunak branded 'pathetic' for attempt to pin blame on Labour for mass strikes
The Labour leader Keir Starmer made the comment at Prime Minister's Questions as up to half a million people take part in strike action - the biggest industrial action the country has has seen in over a decade
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Jet2 and easyJet issue warning for all UK customers travelling by air this week
As many a 100,000 members of the Public and Commercial Services union are walking out today and tomorrow in another long-running dispute, over pay, jobs and conditions, including Border Force workers
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Half term holidays at risk as Border Force announce four days of strike action
One thousand Border Force officers will stage strikes for four days during half term - putting school holidays in jeopardy - the Public and Commercial Services union has announced
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Families told of major change for children in all UK airports from this summer
Heathrow, Gatwick and Stansted are launching trials of e-gates for children aged 10 and 11, with other airports including Manchester and Birmingham possibly to follow suit this summer
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All UK strikes dates from nurses to paramedics as teachers on brink of walkouts
Widespread industrial action shows no sign of abating, with nurses, civil servants and ambulance workers among those set for walkouts in bitter disputes over pay and conditions
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Nuclear airport scare could be Litvinenko-style attack, claims former general
Met Counter Terrorism Command officers raced to Heathrow Airport Terminal 4 on December 29 after a package set off alarms over "contaminated' material- which turned out to be uranium
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UK only halfway through cost-of-living income squeeze - with worst to come
The bleak analysis from the Resolution Foundation think tank suggests the typical household will see their disposable incomes fall by £2,100 over a two-year period
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Union chief blasts leaked proposal to 'ban' Border Force workers from strikes
The idea was said to have been one of three put forward by officials in the Business Department in a leaked email. A No10 source denied it had ever been considered by Downing Street
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Keir Starmer vows to repeal anti-strike laws as he savages Tory 'war on nurses'
In his New Year speech, the Labour leader blasted Rishi Sunak’s plans to impose 'minimum service levels' on striking sectors and said it isn't the way you 'bring an end to industrial disputes'
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Sunak ‘detached from reality’ as speech fails to offer hope for crumbling NHS
In his first major speech as PM, Mr Sunak gave five promises to reboot his crisis-hit Government, including slashing NHS waits - but there was no mention of his party’s decade-long funding squeeze on the NHS
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