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Home Secretary announces new measures to strengthen border security, enforce immigration rules and increase returns
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A nationwide call to hand over zombie-style knives and machetes has been launched by the government, before these dangerous weapons are banned from our streets.
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The Minister for Border Security and Asylum has made the decision not to renew the contract for use of the Bibby Stockholm barge.
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Home Secretary Yvette Cooper has today set out the first steps to establishing a new UK Border Security Command (BSC).
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