Search results for ‘Home Secretary Theresa May’
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Labour MP backs anti-cuts group after hundreds of arrests
As senior Labour figures scramble to distance themselves from anti-cuts protesters involved in disorder in London this weekend, one left-winger is refusing to toe the party line.
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Foreign student visas to be slashed by a quarter
Theresa May announces the Government is cracking down hard on sham colleges and bogus courses – but Labour says plans to cut visas for foreign students are ‘a con’.
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Sex offenders to get appeal right against register
Thousands of sex offenders in England and Wales will be able to appeal against having their names on the sex offenders register for life.
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Asbos to be abolished under new Government plans
As the Government announces new plans to tackle anti-social behaviour, a neighbourhood watch activist tells Channel 4 News a key aim must be to break the cycle of re-offending.
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Anti-terror raids: 12 arrested in major police operation
Twelve men have been arrested in a major anti-terrorism operation in Cardiff, Stoke-on-Trent and London. Midlands Correspondent Darshna Soni says the arrests in Stoke were “low-key”.
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Student protests against plans to axe EMA
More student protests are taking place – this time against plans to axe the Education Maintenance Allowance. It comes as police release new photos and footage from last week’s demonstrations.
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Koran-burning pastor: why I want to come to Britain
Channel 4 News interviews controversial US pastor, Terry Jones, on why he wants to attend an anti-Islam rally in the UK. The Home Secretary said she is ‘actively’ considering banning him.
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Islamist hate books inquiry call
Counter-terror thinktanks call for inquiry into public library stocks after a Channel 4 News investigation finds hundreds of books written by radical Islamist preachers, writes Johnny McDevitt.
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Cutting immigration: OBR questions about a cap
The Office for Budget Responsibility report yesterday raised more questions about how effective the cap on skilled and highly skilled workers, announced by the government last week, will actually be.
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‘Courageous’ survivors of July 7 bombings speak
An inquest into the deaths of the 52 people who died in the July 7 London bombings today heard testimonies from survivors in the Russell Square attack, which killed 26 people.
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Government reveals immigration cap
The government is to announce a proposed cap on the number of migrant workers coming to Britain from outside the EU by an estimated 13 per cent next year.
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July 7 inquest: MI5 loses bid to give evidence in private
The Home Secretary and MI5 have lost their bid for intelligence officials to give evidence to the July 7 inquests behind closed doors.
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FactCheck: cutting immigration
FactCheck analyses the Government’s decision to exclude “intra-company transfers” from its annual migration cap.
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Student jailed for stabbing of MP Stephen Timms
A student who tried to murder Labour MP Stephen Timms, as punishment for his support for the war in Iraq, is sentenced to life in prison with a minimum term of 15 years.
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Controversial ‘control orders’ to be kept
The Government is believed to have decided to keep “control orders”, which impose restrictions on terror suspects who have not been charged. The issue will be a “Coalition headache”, says Gary Gibbon.