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Good News Britain The Bike Project, set up in 2013, refurbishes second-hand bikes and provides them to refugees and asylum seekers in London and Birmingham. Twenty Ukrainian medical students whose training was thrown into turmoil by the Russian invasion are starting clinical placements around Cambridge. Ahead of the court hearing this month scheduled to decide…
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According to the Panorama programme SAS Death Squads Exposed: A British War Crime? British Special Forces soldiers allegedly killed detainees and unarmed men in suspicious circumstances in Afghanistan. It alleged 54 such killings by one British SAS unit on a six-month tour in 2010-11. It also claimed that senior officers took no action. The former…
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Good News Britain The government has paused deportations to Rwanda until the new leader of the Conservative Party (and hence Prime Minister) is elected. The Divisional Court has granted the application to adjourn the legal review of the legality of deportations to Rwanda until September. The Home Affairs Committee has said that there is no…
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Good News Britain Peter Jouvenal, who featured in our Action Links in June, has now been freed by the Taliban along with the four other British nationals they held for more than six months. They have all now left Afghanistan. The government has announced that it will waive the £1,012 child citizenship fee for children…
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Good News Britain The Home Office has cancelled its own chartered deportation flight to northern Iraq carrying up to 30 Kurdish asylum seekers, the first flight of its kind for a decade. Gloucestershire councillors have backed the removal of a 248-year-old statue linked to the transatlantic slave trade. However, the Communities Secretary may block this…
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