A Norwegian teenager has been arrested in a West Yorkshire hotel room and charged with firearms offences in a case connected to national security, the BBC can reveal. Johannes Kongsnes Natland, 18, was arrested by firearms officers in Huddersfield on 19 March. He had flown into Manchester Airport two days earlier from Stavanjer, Norway. The...
The government will end a contract worth £2bn a year with one of the largest providers of hotel asylum accommodation after the Home Office said an audit identified concerns about the company’s performance. Stay Belvedere Hotels (SBHL) provides around a quarter of Home Office asylum accommodation across 51 hotels in England and Wales, and also...