Former Labour leader and MP Jeremy Corbyn opposes the UK government's plan to house 500 adult male migrants on a prison ship off the Dorset coast. He criticizes the policy as "morally indefensible ...

Exclusive: Fire Brigades Union outlines ‘serious fire and safety concerns’ over Bibby Stockholm Suella Braverman’s stalled plan to house asylum seekers on a giant barge is facing a major ...

Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile The new arrivals come amid a steady rise in migration to the European Union country, which officials mostly attribute to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Migrant Amin Khan had fled his home country in Afghanistan to evade death at the hands of the Taliban. The 20-year ...

Efforts to rehouse hundreds of asylum seekers on the Bibby Stockholm appear to be ramping up as fire safety improvements were made along with a string of deliveries to the huge vessel this week.

An incoming Labour government will use controversial barges to house asylum seekers for a “very short” period while a backlog in cases is tackled. Shadow immigration minister Stephen Kinnock ...

More than 800 migrants crossed the English Channel in small boats on Saturday, the highest number on a single day so far this year. Some 872 people crossed on an armada of 15 small vessels ...

A Labour government could use barges and disused military bases to house asylum seekers, despite criticism from refugee groups for their use. Labour’s shadow home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has ...

Asylum seekers could return to the Bibby Stockholm barge in Dorset within days, a minister said on Tuesday, after a Legionella scare forced its evacuation last week. All 39 migrants who had been ...

Two protests have been planned for the same day as residents continue to voice their fury over moves to house 500 asylum seekers on a barge at Portland Port. It is understood the Bibby Stockholm ...

Work follows a fire inspection which called for five changes to improve safety at the barge moored at Portland Docks, Dorset ...