Thomas called followers to protest against arrival of asylum seekers in Gosport, but Border Force instead transported them to Dover

Anti-immigration campaigner was pictured with loyalist killer and ‘Freedom Dad’

Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector Private equity companies now own or partly own 11 of the 20 largest providers of fostering and children’s homes in England, as calls to ban “obscene” profit-making in children’s care grow. An investigation by the thinktank Common Wealth found the “big four” independent fostering agencies – which provide almost a quarter of fostering placements in England – have paid out more than £200m from taxpayers to shareholders in interest payments since 2020. Continue reading...

Exclusive: 7,280 suspected illegal spills in rivers and sea recorded in first five months of 2026

Ministers have quietly shelved plans that could have transformed Britain's biggest car parks into shaded power stations

There were five people on board the five-metre pleasure boat, which was about four miles off Ram Head, Ardmore.

Exclusive: England ‘desperately unprepared’ for effects of crisis including water shortages and heatwaves

Israeli forces have systematically destroyed homes, roads, farmland and forests despite ceasefire with Hizbollah

Stan Drew's cigarette case was discovered in a Dutch field, hundreds of miles from where he died.

Investigation has begun after row started over posters that displayed Nigel Farage's face.

Andrew Fisher: Nigel Lawson was a Thatcher acolyte and we are still paying for the ruinous cost of his terrible decisions

If the incoming Prime Minister does buckle to media and city pressure not to appoint Ed Miliband as Chancellor it will be an ominous sign of things to come, argues Adam Bienkov