All news on the topic: Border Force

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Heathrow Airport’s immigration checkpoint outage resolved after several hours of disruption
Airport officials said Tuesday that a system outage affecting the Border Force’s immigration gates had caused long waits for passengers arriving in Britain.
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Chaos at major UK airports after Border Force ‘suffers nationwide IT glitch’
Travel chaos has been reported at airports across the country after Border Control was apparently hit by a nationwide IT outage.
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Hundreds of Heathrow Border Force officers to start four-day strike
More than 300 workers will take action over plans to introduce rosters that could force 250 of them out of jobs
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'Keir Starmer must fight pressure and stick to his pledge on strike laws'
Employees in Coventry and Birmingham are going on strike next week. Their claim is for £15 an hour and recognition of their union, the GMB. I wish them well, says Paul Routledge
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Children 'in facilities worse than terror suspects in Afghanistan' - ex-watchdog
David Neal, who was sacked as Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, said he was "appalled" by the conditions he saw at a children's holding facility in Kent
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Ex-borders watchdog savages 'dysfunctional' Home Office over security failings
David Neal was sacked as the UK's top immigration inspector after he warned that 'high risk' private jet flights were landing in the UK without proper checks
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Easter holiday chaos looms as hundreds of Border Force workers consider strikes
The Public and Commercial Services Union (PCS) is balloting Border Force workers at Heathrow Airport on possible strike action which could impact the travel hub over the Easter Holidays
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Top immigration inspector sacked for warning private jet flights weren't checked
David Neal was sacked after claiming that hundreds of private jet passengers were allowed into the UK without going through proper checks, which he branded a "scandal"
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Map shows most common illegal drugs flooding the streets in your area
Cocaine remains Britain's top drug seized more than any other apart from cannabis, the Home Office says, but heroin and ketamine were the main drug seen by some UK police forces
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Migrant in critical condition after 7 others found in lorry and man in court
Emergency services including ambulances, police and Border Force were in attendance at the scene at Newhaven ferryport and six people were taken to hospital
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Six rushed to hospital after being found inside lorry at British port
Six people have arrived on a lorry in Newhaven, East Sussex, this morning and have been rushed to hospital by ambulance crews, as border forces launch a major investigation
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Home Office to pay rapper and TV stars for TikTok posts about small boats
Home Office officials have reportedly drawn up a shortlist of celebrities in Albania who they want to post TikTok videos discouraging people from travelling to the UK by small boat
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Gatwick border guard caught sending pics of herself to prisoner avoids jail
Jade Hearn, a 26-year-old Gatwick border official shared official intelligence with criminals, including advising them on how to move money, as she sent pictures of herself in uniform to four inmates
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Grooming gangs using vapes to lure children as they offer e-cigarettes for sex
Tory MP Peter Gibson claimed children are being exploited 'as mules to fetch and carry the illegal products' and 'as agents by selling the vapes to their friends'
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Border Force chief predicts passport desks could be gone in next three years
Phil Douglas, Border Force director general, has predicted that e-gates will begin to play a bigger role at UK airports and that biometrics will replace paper passports in the future
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'Suella Braverman's mad plan proves any fool can be a dictator'
The former Home Secretary wants to end the rule of law, says Fleet Street Fox. Fascism has become an equal opportunities infection
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UK kingpin 'made £126m running drug gang and was rich enough to buy out Rolex'
James White, 46, from North Lanarkshire, Scotland, led a 'sophisticated' drugs and guns gang that saw him rake in an estimated £126million before becoming one of the UK's most wanted men
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Anti-strike law requiring 40% of trains to run during walkouts 'won't work'
Minimum service levels, restricting rights to strike, will be introduced for ambulance, rail and Border Force staff, but unions have claimed they are 'unworkable'
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Dad threatened to punch crying flight attendant who wouldn't bring him alcohol
A drunk father-of-three hurled vile abuse at an air stewardess who refused to serve him more alcohol on a flight - then bit a police officer's arm after he was arrested, a court heard
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Hundreds forced to queue for hours at UK airports as e-gates 'stop working'
Border Force carried out "routine maintenance" on passport e-gates across all UK airports, leaving passengers stuck in "standstill" lines for up to two hours at passport control
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Home Office 'risking lives' by seizing medicines in detention centres - watchdog
Suella Braverman was asked how she would feel if one of her loved ones had their medicines taken off them as serious concerns were raised with the Home Office policy
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Tories warned 'more will die' after tragic end to farcical 'stop the boats' week
Rishi Sunak's government are reeling after a horrific seven days in which the Bibby Stockholm migrant barge policy fell apart and several migrants tragically died in the Channel
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Tory Stop the Boats pledge in tatters as 509 cross Channel on day of tragedy
New Home Office figures reveal 1,600 people made the perilous journey in three days, including 509 on Saturday - the day six people died and at least 58 were rescued
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Tories accused of having 'blood on hands' after six migrants die in Channel
Today's Channel tragedy, which claimed the lives of at least six people, comes just hours after the plan to house asylum seekers on a barge turned into a fiasco
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'The Tories have a tighter grip on ineptitude than they have on immigration'
A further 1,000 people arrived in boats this week, taking the total to have crossed since 2018 to more than 100,000 - this is what happens if you prioritise gimmicks and bombast