Tag: UK immigrants

English village votes to ‘secede’ from U.K. over asylum centre plan

September 16, 2026 admin

An English village of around 350 people announced on Wednesday (September 16, 2026) that a vast majority of residents had voted yes in an “independence referendum” staged to protest plans to house over 1,200 migrants in a nearby facility. Piddington in central England, 25 kilometres (15 miles) from the university city of Oxford, has grabbed…

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Woman Arrested For Using Wigs To Take UK Citizenship Tests For 14 Others

January 28, 2025 admin

In a bizarre case of immigration fraud, a woman has been arrested in the UK for using different wigs and disguises to impersonate applicants during British citizenship tests. As per the Home Office, as cited by BBC, the accused 61-year-old from Enfield, North London, took the “Life in the UK Test” on behalf of at…

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Five dead trying to cross English Channel hours after U.K. passes deportation law

April 23, 2024 admin

This photo provided by the Prefecture Maritime du Nord et de la Manche shows migrants continuing their journey to Britain off northern France coast on April 23, 2024. Five people, including a child, died while trying to cross the English Channel from France to the U.K., French authorities said, just hours after the British government…

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