Schools have run out of places for local children in entire year groups owing to the influx of migrants, councils and MPs have warned.
Families in Kent have been told there are no school places for 11 and 13-year-olds in Canterbury and Ashford because of the “unexpected” and “unplanned” arrival of migrant children in the two areas.
The council is having to pay to bus children who have missed out on places to other towns up to 25 miles away because of the shortage of places.
Armed detainees riot at immigration centre after power outage leaves them without heating
Riot police confronted armed immigration centre detainees who caused a disturbance after a power cut at Europe’s largest detention centre left them without heating.
Dozens of men held at the Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre, near Heathrow Airport, left their rooms after the lights and heating went out following a power outage in the wider area.
The disturbance is understood to have broken out as the centre’s occupants were being transferred to three other centres on Saturday following the overnight loss of electricity
Dover migrant centre attack driven by right-wing ideology – police
The firebombing of an immigration processing centre was motivated by extreme right-wing terrorist ideology, police have said.
Andrew Leak, 66, from High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, threw up to three incendiary devices at the site in Dover, Kent, last Sunday.
He is believed to have later taken his own life.
Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE) said evidence showed it “was motivated by a terrorist ideology”.
