Protesters, campaigning for more international involvement in the Syrian conflict, prepare to march to Whitehall, from Hyde Park Corner, London. 2015 credit PA

Despite celebrations over the end of Assad’s brutal regime, thousands of Syrians seeking asylum in the UK face an anxious wait to find out what happens next.

Syrians trapped in the UK asylum backlog face uncertain future

 Labour ministers said progressing with the Northeye site in Bexhill-on-Sea, Sussex, would have taken "significant time" and incurred additional "costs".

Controversial plans to house asylum seekers in derelict prison, scrapped

ANG 301024 Wethersfield FC's team of asylum seekers.

Asylum seekers living at the former RAF Wethersfield base in Essex have been helped to found their own football team.

Wethersfield FC: The asylum seekers who formed a football team

ITV News Central shines a light on the self-described 'horrors' that asylum seekers face when fleeing violence abroad. 

LGBTQ+ asylum seekers in the UK: The struggles of fleeing violence

ANG 301024 Nodari Lomsadze came to the UK on a small boat with his parents.

Three months on from the UK's anti-immigration riots, refugees and asylum seekers have told ITV News Anglia about their desperation to build a life in the East.

Unheard voices: The refugees and asylum seekers forging new lives in the East

The former airbase was due to start accommodating up to 2,000 migrants from later this year.

Work begins to close former RAF Scampton site 

File photo dated 05/08/24 of damage at the Holiday Inn Express in Tamworth, Staffordshire, after a mob attacked it. The Prime Minister should not leave a job "half done" in his response to the summer riots, a think tank has said as it criticised the "vacuum" in policy around community cohesion. Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to set out his plan to stop a repeat of the violent disorder involving what he described at the time as "far-right thuggery" on the streets in some parts of the UK. Issue date: Thursday September 12, 2024.
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The 49-year-old, who added to the climate of fear at the time, was found guilty at a trial.

Caller told hotel 'we'll be coming for' asylum seekers as riots broke out

Jenrick claimed the SAS is "killing rather than capturing terrorists because our lawyers tell us that if they're caught, the European Court will set them free."

Ex-defence secretary saw 'no evidence' of claim that SAS kill terrorists

There are renewed questions over the future of the 800-acre site at RAF Scampton after the Home Office confirmed that asylum seekers would not be housed there.

What next for RAF Scampton?

An asylum seeker who was inside the hotel near Rotherham when it was attacked by rioters has spoken to ITV News.

'I feared l'd be burned alive': Asylum seeker in hotel attacked by mob

The Home Office said the cost of accommodating hundreds of migrants at the former Lincolnshire airbase was not value for money. 

Government scraps plan to house asylum seekers at RAF Scampton

Misinformation spread online fuelled much of the anger that eventually spilled out into the August 4 riot that shocked local residents.

Tamworth asylum hotel attack: How online rumours have real-life consequences

The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said the Home Office has frequently spent far more than it had budgeted for asylum, border, visa and passport operations.

‘Woeful budgeting’ in Home Office causing overspends on asylum

A group of people thought to be migrants are brought in to Dover, Kent, by Border Force following a small boat incident in the Channel

An asylum system that works “quickly and effectively” would deter migrant Channel crossings, the head of the National Crime Agency (NCA) said.

National Crime Agency calls for a quick and effective system to deter migrants

A council has appealed to the new Home Secretary to make a decision on plans to house asylum seekers at RAF Scampton.

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