All news on the topic: Home Office

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Teacher's husband 'reported wife for hitting him' before family 'murder-suicide'
Epsom College head Emma Pattison and her daughter Lettie are tragically believed to have been shot and killed by George Pattison before he turned the gun on himself
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Lockdown demise of Kaylea Titford which saw her balloon to 23st before she died
Kaylea Titford, 16, was "trapped" inside her bedroom with no access to the toilet as her father Alun Titford was found guilty of manslaughter by gross negligence
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Brits warned as passport prices hike up and waiting times remain long
News of the deadline came after the Home Office hiked the price of passport applications, with the fee for a standard online application made from within the UK rising from £75.50 to £82.50 for adults and £49 to £53.50 for children
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Woman who 'died' at care home wakes up when she arrives at funeral home
An 82-year-old woman was pronounced dead at a nursing home and was moved to a funeral home, but soon she started breathing again leaving workers in shock - and now an investigation has been launched
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Holiday warning as passports lost by Home Office reach a 5-year high
The Home Office has reportedly advised that the 10-week deadline introduced during the pandemic would remain in place due to an “elevated” and “volatile” demand for passports
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Tory slams Rishi Sunak's 'phoney war' against European human rights rules
Conservative Jackie Doyle-Price insisted the Prime Minister should tackle the number of people crossing the Channel in small boats by getting the Home Office into shape rather than trying to pick a fight with the courts
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Truss' Home Secretary says her plan 'clearly' wasn't right and ignored 'reality'
In a 4,000 word screed, Liz Truss blamed everyone from the "economic establishment" to Joe Biden for getting in the way of her bonkers plan for unfunded tax cuts - but even her own ministers say her plan was to blame
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Dad who strangled woman to death told police he killed her to 'wash away shame'
Taiba Alali fled her homeland in 2017 to start a new life in Turkey and had planned to wed her Syrian-born boyfriend. But when she returned to support the Iraq football team her family kidnapped her
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Theresa May savages Tories over five year delay to Hillsborough report response
The former Prime Minister commissioned Bishop James Jones to investigate the victims' families experiences - but five years on the Government is yet to issue its response
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Thousands of benefit claimants may have wrongly been paid money after Gov error
EU citizens who claimed benefits before Brexit but were refused a citizens status may have to pay the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) money back due to an data error by the Home Office
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Police chiefs apologise for every force in country for 97 Hillsborough deaths
Police chief Martin Hewitt has apologised on behalf of the police service for failing to keep people safe at the FA Cup match at Hillsborough, in which 97 Liverpool fans died
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Two day warning until major UK passport rule change that'll cost Brits
Those hoping to avoid the increased fees, particularly families with multiple passports which need renewing at once, still have a bit of time to get in under the net
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Nuclear fallout Cold War shelter hidden in UK countryside for sale for £70,000
The seemingly ordinary patch of land, known as Observer Post Field, on the edge of a village in Bolsover, Derbyshire, hides an impressive Cold War secret that could be yours, if you have a spare £70,000 lying around
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Tycoon who 'ordered rival's death' owns hotel where 76 refugee children vanished
Businessman Nicholas van Hoogstraten - who was found to have ordered the killing of a business partner - owns the hotel where refugee children disappeared through his family firm, documents show
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MP demands Tory Jonanthan Gullis makes public apology for 'fanning hatred'
Jonathan Gullis sparked outrage when he heckled a Labour MP asking about the disappearance of migrant children from Home Office-run hotels - saying they 'shouldn't have come here illegally'
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Home Secretary's U-turn on Windrush reforms branded 'slap in the face'
Labour frontbencher David Lammy said those affected by the Windrush scandal were being 'once again spat on' after Home Secretary Suella Braverman's decision to ditch a set of key reforms
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Tories on verge of breaking pledge to recruit 20,000 police officers by March
Figures released today by the Home Office reveal the government must recruit a massive 3,427 officers by the end of March, amid fears low pay is putting off would-be coppers
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Schoolgirl ballooned to 23 stone before dying because 'of how she was cared for'
Kaylea Titford, 16, spent the last years of her young life in conditions 'not fit for animals' after allegedly being neglected by her parents, a court heard
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Labour calls for 'urgent action' on gangs taking asylum-seeking kids from hotels
There are 76 vulnerable children who went missing from accommodation in Brighton and Hove and still have not been found - Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper demanded the Home Office 'immediately end the contract with this hotel'
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Tory shame of asylum-seeking children missing from hotel run by Home Office
Darren Lewis is appalled by reports that defenceless kids are being abducted from a Government-run hotel for asylum seekers
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Met Police 'missed chances' to protect pregnant mum killed by ex with crossbow
Sana Muhammad was killed with a crossbow at her home in Ilford , east London, by her ex-husband Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo when she was eight months pregnant, and a report has suggested the Met could have done more
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'Met Police is meant to serve and protect - apologies are not cutting it'
Saira Khan says the Met needs to listen to the public, particularly women and marginalised groups. It should set up meetings and create a way for people to easily report concerns about police misconduct
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Watchdog slams Government over security vetting delays and backlogs
A damning National Audit Office report outlines the scale of delays hitting checks, which Labour said was "a stinging rebuke from the independent watchdog"
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British passport applications will see a huge price change from next month
The fee for a standard online application made from within the UK will rise from £75.50 to £82.50 for adults and £49 to £53.50 for children, the Government has announced
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Boris Johnson's Olympics plan to get people playing more sport has fallen flat
A devastating report by the Commons spending watchdog, the Public Accounts Committee, says in the three years after Mr Johnson as London mayor put on the 2012 Games participation in sport dropped