UK Borders

Ready for a Muckle Adventure?

Brodie Smithers | Posted 12.04.2013 | UK Lifestyle
Brodie Smithers

Bringing adventure to the Scottish Borders, the Muckle Toon Adventure Festival is aiming to help revive the small town of Langholm. View image Ment...

PHOTOS: Giant Snails Seized At UK Border

PA | Posted 19.09.2012 | UK

A group of 36 giant snails has been seized from a passenger's luggage at an airport. Border Force officers at Glasgow Airport found the living gian...

'Risk-Based' Security Checks Would Ease Border Queues Claim MPs

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 26.07.2012 | UK

Risk-based checks at the UK's borders should be brought back to help ease queues, MPs have said. A pilot scheme, scrapped in the wake of last year'...

Child Refugees 'Still Detained As Adults', Says Report

PA | Posted 20.07.2012 | UK

Child refugees are still being locked up by the immigration service which wrongly classifies them as adults, a new report claims. Young people can ...

UK Border Agency Detaining Children In 'Degrading And Disgraceful' Conditions

PA | Posted 13.07.2012 | UK

The UK Border Agency is detaining children in degrading and disgraceful conditions at Heathrow Airport, it was claimed. Children of all ages are he...

Putting Limits on a Europe Without Borders

European Parliament Web Team | Posted 02.07.2012 | UK Politics
European Parliament Web Team

Passport-free travel is one of the perks of living in the EU, so what sort of crisis would constitute a valid reason for lifting that prerogative? MEPs have been asked to consider in what exceptional circumstances member states within the Schengen area would be allowed to reintroduce internal border checks.

Retired Immigration Officials To Be 'Re-Hired For The Olympics'

PA | Posted 29.06.2012 | UK

Retired immigration officers will be brought back to ease airport border control queues during the Olympics, it was reported on Sunday. Passport ch...

Border Agency Still Failing, Says Damning Report

PA/The Huffington Post UK | Posted 11.04.2012 | UK Politics

The under-fire UK Border Agency must rid itself of its "bunker mentality" or risk raising suspicions that it is trying to mislead Parliament and the p...

Deaf Orphan Tells Court Of 'Rape And Abuse' After 10 Years Imprisoned In Cellar

Huffington Post UK / PA | Posted 13.02.2012 | UK

A deaf and mute girl allegedly kept in a cellar, repeatedly raped and treated as a virtual slave told a court today of years of beatings and cruelty. ...

Girl Of 10 Imprisoned, Beaten And 'Repeatedly Raped' For A Decade In Manchester, Court Hears

PA/Huffington Post UK | Posted 09.02.2012 | UK

A deaf girl of 10 was trafficked into the UK, repeatedly raped, kept in a cellar and treated as a virtual slave for almost a decade, a court heard tod...

Theresa May Accused Of Misleading Parliament By Brodie Clark As She Prepares To Face MPs

PA | Posted 08.01.2012 | UK Politics

Pressure is mounting on Home Secretary Theresa May after the head of the UK border force quit and accused her of misleading Parliament. In a scathi...

May Faces Questions On Border Chaos As Accusations Mount Over Passport Checks

Huffington Post UK | Posted 06.01.2012 | UK Politics

Nick Clegg has offered little support to Theresa May as the embattled home secretary prepares make a statement to parliament over border controls amid...