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Home Secretary Theresa May leaves police in shock after withdrawing all funding for their unofficial union. She was greeted with silence after declaring it was unacceptable for taxpayers to fund them.

A new criminal offence of police corruption will be created following “profoundly shocking” revelations about Scotland Yard’s investigation of Stephen Lawrence’s murder, the home secretary says.

Northumbria’s police and crime commissioner is the latest police chief to link welfare cuts to a rise in shoplifting, with one force revealing it is treating the crime with a “soft touch”.

Peers have blocked a law that would give police powers to clamp down on any public behaviour deemed potentially “annoying” from busking to peaceful protest.

Nick Clegg pledges to block any fresh attempts to curb immigration from the European Union, insisting “this is where we draw the line”, as Vince Cable says the Tories are ‘in a panic’ on the subject.

In a move branded a “death sentence” by campaigners, the High Court refuses release on bail to a Nigerian asylum seeker on hunger strike, but orders an urgent hearing of his case.

Two-thirds of responses to the government’s “go home” vans campaign were hoaxes, a Home Office report says, as it claims 60 illegal immigrants have left the UK because of the initiative, saving £1m.

An investigation is underway to try and determine the cause of a fire at an immigration detention centre near Oxford which left two people in hospital and resulted in detainees being moved.

One of the UK’s biggest prisons is getting “steadily worse”, the monitoring board chair tells Channel 4 News, with a 50 per cent increase in the use of force on inmates and a staff recruitment freeze.

Drinkers who can’t look after themselves should be put in privately-run cells until they sober up – and then pay a fee for the privilege, says a police chief, fed-up with intoxicated revellers.

A government campaign using vans to tell illegal immigrants to “go home” or face arrest is to be investigated by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA).