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There has been a surge in self-harm incidents at an immigration removal centre where dozens of people are detained despite being identified as vulnerable individuals, a new report shows. Inspectors found they had increased from 181 in 2017 to 217 in 2018, de…

Image copyrightJames Johnstone A former coal mine converted into a landscape artwork has secured funding to upgrade its visitor facilities. The Crawick Multiverse near Sanquhar - designed by Charles Jencks - officially opened four years ago. Image copyrigh…

The family of a New York teen missing in London fear she was lured to the British capital after texting an older man.  Police in Britain and the United States are searching for the 16-year-old girl who flew from John F Kennedy Airport on Saturday.  New York…

In recent interventions, the war has been won but we have failed to secure enduring peace. Insurgents have been overpowered or forced to disperse, only to then regroup and return with a vengeance. In modern day non-state conflict, it is no longer enough to de…

The new cast of RuPauls Drag Race UK has been revealed, and unfortunately, I think it is a painful reminder of what we see as palatable within the LGBTQIA+ community. While the show is often championed as a celebration of diversity, I believe it fails to repr…

On my second day working in one of the refugee camps in northern France, one of the younger men spoke of his hopes for the future. He eagerly told me that getting to England is what's keeping him going. It's all he thinks about  every day, every night. This …

Experts are recommending drivers set off after 9pm tonight to get away for the bank holiday weekend. More than 16.5 million leisure journeys are planned over the three-day weekend, with Friday and Saturday expected to be the busiest days on the roads accordi…

Paralympian Sophie Christiansen went home and cried after she was stuck on a train with no guard to help her get off. Ms Christiansen, who has won three gold medals for dressage in the 2012 and 2016 Paralympic Games, was travelling on a South West Railway (S…

Anyone who has visited the Holocaust memorial in the centre of Berlin will have had the same experience. You are met with a vast stretch of concrete blocks, which are low to the ground around the edges, but gradually begin to get higher as you walk into it. W…

A severed paw may be all that is left of a missing chihuahua named Gizmo. The animal's foot is said to have been spotted being fought over by a flock of hungry seagulls a month after the dog was reportedly carried off by a seagull. Daisy Pugh said she found…