Author: Darren Smith

Five migrants have won a High Court challenge against their removal under Labour’s “one in, one out” returns agreement with France, after judges ruled the Home Office failed to properly assess their claims of being trafficking victims before ordering their deportation. Labour’s flagship migrant returns deal with France has suffered a significant legal setback after five asylum seekers successfully challenged their planned deportations at the High Court. The claimants argued their removals were unlawful because they showed credible signs of being victims of modern slavery and human trafficking, and should therefore have been referred through the UK’s National Referral Mechanism…

The Bayeux Tapestry has gone on display at the British Museum for the first time since it was created nearly a millennium ago, reigniting a scholarly dispute over exactly how many penises are woven into the famous depiction of the Battle of Hastings. The Bayeux Tapestry has arrived in Britain for the first time in almost 1,000 years, going on display at the British Museum following a landmark cultural agreement between Britain and France. The 70-metre embroidered artwork, which depicts Norman king William the Conqueror’s 1066 victory over Saxon King Harold, was transported into the museum overnight as part of…

Ann Widdecombe, the outspoken former Conservative MP, broadcaster and prominent Brexit campaigner, has died at the age of 78. The veteran politician was one of the most recognisable figures in British public life, serving in Parliament for more than two decades before later becoming a Member of the European Parliament for the Brexit Party. Known for her direct speaking style and uncompromising views, Widdecombe became a household name both in politics and on television, remaining a familiar face long after leaving Westminster. She represented Maidstone between 1987 and 1997 before becoming MP for Maidstone and The Weald, serving until she…

A wildfire near the hamlet of Bédar in southern Spain has killed twelve people, some of them trapped in vehicles as flames cut off escape routes, in what regional authorities have described as the deadliest blaze in Andalusia’s recent history. Twelve people died late Thursday when a wildfire tore through the hamlet of Bédar, near Almería in southern Spain, regional authorities confirmed, with several victims found trapped inside their cars after the flames cut off their escape routes. Around 150 firefighters battled the blaze as it broke out amid soaring temperatures, while officials in Andalusia described it as the deadliest…

Rev Dr Bernard Randall has finally been cleared over a sermon on gender identity that cost him his job and his standing with the Church of England, after an independent safeguarding review found no evidence he caused any harm and a separate legal settlement was reached with the school that dismissed him. Seven years after delivering a sermon that upended his career, Rev Dr Bernard Randall can once again preach and work in schools. An independent review has cleared the former Cambridge college chaplain of any safeguarding concerns, and he has separately settled his legal dispute with Trent College, the…

Adam Brandao, 24, is a Christian rapper who publicly shares his testimony after leaving Islam. In an exclusive interview with Britannia Daily, he recalls the friendship, the prayer experiment and the three knocks on a door that he says changed the course of his life. There was a time when Adam Brandao would have crossed the street to avoid a Christian. Raised in a Muslim household where faith was woven into everyday life, he says he absorbed a hostility towards Christianity almost without noticing. “I became a product of my environment and began to see Christians as stupid,” he says.…

More than 30 people were injured, with at least one in critical condition, after a bus operated by the Maryland Transit Administration crashed into a building and several vehicles in Pikesville on Wednesday, prompting a second-alarm mass casualty response and the deployment of a medevac helicopter. A mass casualty incident was declared in Pikesville, Maryland, on Wednesday after a Maryland Transit Administration bus carrying passengers crashed into a building and multiple vehicles, injuring more than 30 people. The Baltimore County Fire Department confirmed the crash occurred in the 1500 block of Reisterstown Road, with at least one victim reported in…

Ed Matthews, the influencer who featured in Louis Theroux’s Inside the Manosphere, was handcuffed by police in Fort Worth for public intoxication after clashing with pub staff and Mexico fans while watching England’s World Cup last-16 victory, in footage that has since spread widely online. British internet personality Ed Matthews, 23, was arrested in Fort Worth, Texas, on Monday while watching England’s 3-2 win over Mexico at the Azteca Stadium, after being ejected from a pub and confronting supporters wearing Mexico colours. Footage of the incident, shared by Channel 5 News on Facebook, shows Matthews complaining after being thrown out…

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood is set to amend the 1971 Immigration Act to clear the way for the deportation of Shabir Ahmed, the freed ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, after the decades-old law was found to be blocking his removal from the UK following his release from prison last week. The UK government is preparing to change immigration law to allow for the deportation of Shabir Ahmed, the ringleader of the Rochdale grooming gang, Britannia Daily has been told. According to reporting first published by the Telegraph, Mahmood is expected to set out her plans on Monday to amend…

The Ministry of Justice has awarded a £30,000 contract to Prison Yoga Project UK to train instructors in “trauma-informed” yoga for prisoners, drawing sharp criticism from Conservative MP Iain Duncan Smith and former Met detective Peter Bleksley as prisons across England and Wales grapple with overcrowding and rising violence. The Ministry of Justice has awarded a £30,000 contract to Prison Yoga Project UK (PYP) to deliver trauma-informed yoga training over 21 months, in a scheme officials say is designed to reduce violence among prisoners whose offending is often linked to drug and alcohol abuse. The contract, procured through the MoJ’s…