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Iver landfill data centre subject of legal action by campaigners

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Danny Fullbrook & Louise Parry BBC News, Buckinghamshire Greystoke The plans for the landfill site in Iver had been rejected by Buckinghamshire Council in June 2024 (artist impression) Campaigners are taking legal action over the government’s decision that a large data centre should be built. In June 2024, Buckinghamshire Council rejected plans for the facility […]

Reform UK confirms new Leicestershire County Council deputy

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Laura Hammond BBC News, East Midlands BBC Reform UK swept away the Tories’ majority on the council on 3 May Two new councillors have been appointed to Leicestershire County Council’s cabinet after the authority’s former deputy leader was removed from his role. Reform UK’s Joseph Boam was also removed from his position as cabinet member […]

Former MP Dame Annette Brooke dies

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Dame Annette Brooke, who became the longest-serving female Liberal Democrat MP, has died aged 78. Dame Annette served the constituency of Mid-Dorset and North Poole in Parliament from 2001 to 2015 and was voted MP of the year in 2010. An economics teacher in Aylesbury and then Bournemouth, she was also a tutor with the […]

Are government pledges on track?

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Rob England and Tom Edgington BBC Verify Getty Images The prime minister has made tackling illegal immigration and “restoring order” to the asylum system a priority for the government. Sir Keir Starmer has promised to “smash the gangs”. It follows predecessor Rishi Sunak’s pledge to “stop the boats”. BBC Verify looks at key government pledges […]

Record 111,000 UK asylum applications in past year, figures show

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Getty Images A record 111,000 asylum applications were made to the UK during the year to June, but the government is processing cases faster, new Home Office figures show. This is an increase of 14% from the previous year, and it is higher than the peak of 103,000 in 2002. But officials are processing more […]

Asylum figures a mixed bag for UK government

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

NurPhoto via Getty Images Newly released Home Office data paints a mixed picture of how the government’s asylum seeker strategy is working out. The number of asylum seekers housed in hotels – a current political flashpoint – has risen slightly compared to when it came to power. However the figures are far below the 2023 […]

UK’s third-largest steelworks collapses into government control

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

The UK’s third-largest steelworks has been placed under government control, creating an uncertain future for nearly 1,500 workers in Rotherham and Sheffield. Insolvency courts granted a compulsory winding up order sought by creditors owed hundreds of millions of pounds by Speciality Steels UK (SSUK) – part of the Liberty Steel metals empire of controversial tycoon […]

Most councils with asylum seeker hotels are under Labour control

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Oscar Bentley & Kate Whannel Political reporter Getty Images Protesters calling for the closure of The Bell Hotel in Epping More than half of the councils with asylum seeker hotels are fully or partly controlled by Labour, according to BBC analysis of figures released by the government. On Tuesday, Conservative-controlled Epping Forest District Council won […]

Labour membership falls by 200,000 in five years

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Labour has lost almost 200,000 members in the past five years, according to the party’s latest annual accounts. The party’s membership has been steadily falling since Sir Keir Starmer became leader in April 2020, from a peak of 532,046 at the end of 2019. Despite the party’s landslide election victory last summer, it shed another […]

How many people come to work and study in the UK?

Reporter USAugust 21, 2025

Getty Images New Home Office data shows the number of visas issued to people who want to work, study or join family members in the UK fell in the year to June 2025. Separate figures from the Office of National Statistics published in May showed that overall net migration to the UK decreased almost 50% […]

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