Some 9,885 people had been logged as making the journey from France as of Sunday, according to provisional Home Office figures for 2025.

Jess Phillips has suggested she is open to co-operating with Rupert Lowe’s private inquiry into grooming gangs. The Home Office minister said she was “more than happy” to meet the Independent MP to ...

Two 'regular shoplifters' have been arrested after items were stolen from a village shop, police have said. Tesco Express in Cholsey, near Wallingford, contacted police last night (April 27) to report ...

A man with a “crazed attitude to sex” groomed a schoolgirl and then enjoyed watching others further degrade her in a “den of iniquity”, a judge has said. Ashley Darbyshire, 28, targeted his victim ...

Home Office minister Jess Phillips said she expects local inquiries into grooming gangs will “go further” than the five already announced. During an urgent question in the Commons, Ms Phillips also ...