East Midlands

Bibby Stockholm barge migrants moved to Nottinghamshire

Remember the “accommodation vessel,” the Bibby Stockholm barge, which made headlines last year? The same barge that cost the taxpayer a reported £22 million? It’s still there, docked in Portland Port, Dorset, housing over 500 “asylum seekers”. However, it won’t be there for much longer, at least not in its current guise. According to the

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Illegal immigrant jailed for cannabis production in Nottingham

Last year, we reported on a cannabis production operation in the sleepy spa town of Buxton, Derbyshire. Now, it’s the turn of Nottinghamshire and like before, the individual involved has questionable immigration status. In fact, there’s nothing questionable at all; Nam Tran, 21, is here illegally. Not content with breaking immigration law, he has since

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Prolific Derby burglar walks out from open prison

A prolific burglar from Derby has gone missing from HMP Sudbury. Derbyshire Police say Larry Connors left the open prison at around 7:50 p.m. on Friday, October 18. The 31-year-old had been moved to the category D prison while serving a four-and-a-half-year sentence.  Connors, 31, of Gisborne Green in the city centre, burgled houses across

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Nottinghamshire Police joined the club and told to improve.

Law enforcement in Great Britain is a joke, and we all know it. Apologies if that statement comes across as rather blunt, but such are the depths that modern policing has fallen to that we are now beyond the point of eloquent and diplomatic language—it’s time to call a spade a spade. The fact is

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First East Midlands Mayor election to cost eye-watering £4 million.

Residents across Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire, Derby and Nottingham will get the chance to vote for the first-ever East Midlands Mayor next May after councils gave the go-ahead to devolution for the region. Devolution is a form of administrative decentralisation involving the delegation of administrative powers from central government to regional or local levels. It’s a policy

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