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Patient is diagnosed with killer MERS virus in Leeds

The patient, who hasn't been identified, was moved from Leeds to a hospital in Liverpool for treatment after being diagnosed with MERS - a respiratory illness spread by contact with camels.




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Leeds Festival 'idiot' who dive-bombed tents is slammed as 'loser'

The video was shared to Twitter soon after the end of Reading and Leeds Festival. It has been widely condemned online with some questioning the safety of the man's actions.




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Recruitment worker brands male barber shop in Leeds as sexist

Michelle Chan (pictured) says she was asked to leave Barber Barber, Leeds while waiting for her boyfriend and had to wait in the street as the shop has a male-only policy to avoid queuing.




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Leeds United fans cheer man in Jimmy Savile costume

The fan was kitted out in a shell suit, blonde wig, and rose-tinted glasses - and had a cigar in his mouth. Leeds fans sang: 'He's one of our own, he's one of our own, Jimmy Savile, he's one of our own.'




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Moment Australian jockey is thrown from his racehorse - but somehow manages to cling to the saddle 

Jarrod Lynch (pictured), 26, was racing on his horse Euroman in Grand National Hurdle at Morphetville racecourse in Adelaide at 1pm on Saturday.




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Grand National-winning jockey Ryan Mania on the verge of a surprise comeback

EXCLUSIVE:Grand National-winning jockey Ryan Mania is on the verge of a surprise comeback to the saddle, five years after quitting after citing weight and motivation problems.




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Comedian John Bishop wants the Grand National banned but used to own a racehorse

The animal lover said he is not against the sport but has changed his perspective on the historic race because of the number of horses which have died in the race.




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Dual Grand National winning jockey Leighton Aspell set to retire after Sunday's meeting at Fontwell 

Dual Grand National winning jockey Leighton Aspell will retire after riding at Fontwell on Sunday. Aspell, 43, will ride Ventura Dragon (4.20) and Itsnotwhatyouthink (5.20) for two of his biggest fans.




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History-maker Khadijah Mellah to be part of panel at 2020 Aintree Grand Women's Summit

Held on Ladies Day at the Aintree festival, the summit brings women in sport and business together to discuss how they continue to break down barriers and inspire others to follow suit.




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Grand National cancelled due to coronavirus pandemic as UK government plan to ban mass gatherings

The Grand National was dramatically called off on Monday night after new Government restrictions to fight the spread of coronavirus made it impossible to stage the Aintree showpiece.




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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Earl of Derby wins his battle to build 400 homes on his stud farm

Hundreds of new homes are to be built on a stud farm near Newmarket, Sebastian Shakespeare has the latest including what's going on with the Archer's actors and what Mumford & Sons are using for loo roll.




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Military helicopters land at Grand National racecourse Aintree to stock hospital with equipment

Soldiers were pictured alongside the aircraft this afternoon and then seen scoping out the site, which is less than a mile from Aintree Hospital in Merseyside.




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Neigh sweat! Meet the winner of the virtual Grand National who didn't even need to leave the paddock

Potters Corner won his trainer Christian Williams a virtual fortune yesterday during a computer simulation of the Grand National watched by almost five million viewers.




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 A delightful Royal thriller. But would we really have hidden the wartime Princesses in Tipperary?

Over the past few years, an increasing number of novels have included real-life members of the Royal Family as characters. Now B W Black has written a novel involving the Royal princesses




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Former speaker John Bercow is alert to pomposity in others but never in himself

The shortest sentence in this autobiography is also the truest. 'Brevity,' writes John Bercow, 'is not my strong suit.' You can say that again!




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A tale of a wartime evacuee turned conjuror. A wizard twist at the end. But where's the magic?

Here We Are opens in a theatre in Brighton, 1959. A snazzy tap-dancing showbiz personality called Jack Robinson is waiting in the wings. The world of entertainment is on the cusp of change




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CRAIG BROWN: Kate Fall's memoir of Cameron's No. 10 plays it safe

For the most part, Kate Fall regards her role as a memoirist as an extension of her job as gatekeeper: to present the polished face of the Cameron administration to the world




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More than 200 Central American migrants escape from detention facility in Mexico

Mexican authorities recaptured 100 of more than 200 that fled an immigration station on Monday in southern Mexico as hundreds more remained stuck on the Suchiate River's shore.




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Boris Johnson hails 'new chapter' for Britain as Brexit withdrawal bill is passed by Parliament

The Prime Minister will vow to 'mobilise the full breadth of our new freedoms' on Brexit night - as his Bill paving the way for Britain to leave the EU was finally passed by Parliament yesterday.




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AOC is 'idiotic,' 'disgusting' says former ICE director after she calls for breaking up the agency

The former acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement director blasted Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez for her repeated 'idiotic' comments that the agency should be abolished.




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Government experts lay out plans for tough new points-based immigration system

The Migration Advisory Committee said post-Brexit arrangements to replace EU freedom of movement could slow the growth in the UK population and make people slightly better off.




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Jennifer Lopez makes poignant comment about immigrant children in cages as she is joined by daughter

Sunday's performance featured a surprise appearance from J.Lo's daughter toward the end of the show, singing Let's Get Loud as she sat in a round cage, surrounded by other children in cages.




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Jennifer Lopez hammers home her message against Trump's immigration policy

The clip shows Jennifer Lopez, 50, giving her team a pep-talk and holding hands with them in prayer before they take to the stage for Sunday's half-time performance at Super Bowl LIV in Miami.




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Protesters gather in New York after ICE agents shoot Mexican man

Erick Diaz, a 26-year-old Mexican national, was shot by the immigration and customs agents in Brooklyn on Thursday as they were trying to arrest his mother's boyfriend.




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Adau Mornyang was locked up after 'illegally' entering the US and has quietly returned home

Adau Mornyang, 25, was held in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention centre in New York for three months before her release on December 21.




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Donald Trump calls Mike Bloomberg a 'TOTAL RACIST' as stop-and-frisk recording emerges

President Donald Trump attacked Mike Bloomberg as a 'total racist' after audio surfaced of his 2015 speech adamantly defending stop and frisk police policies.




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Rishi Sunak takes centre stage as Boris Johnson meets with new-look Cabinet

The new Chancellor was beaming as he sat next to the Prime Minister despite the fact that yesterday he saw his boss Sajid Javid purged from the government.




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Sajid Javid stoked tensions by pushing for extension for unskilled EU migrants to come to Britain 

The chancellor insisted the UK's new border system would not be ready by December. Relations between No 10 and No 11 were stretched by the proposed extension.




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Keir Starmer REFUSES to say whether immigration should come down

Sir Keir Starmer insisted he does not believe in 'a numbers game' as he was repeatedly challenged on his views on immigration.




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Pauline Hanson has called on the government to 'tighten up' immigration laws

Pauline Hanson has called on the government to 'tighten up' immigration laws after a new report revealed 50,000 migrants who were denied asylum in Australia remain in the country. 




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How Scott Morrison's government forced Holden out of Australia by dropping subsidies

Scott Morrison raged against the sudden scrapping of Holden in Australia, but he must have forgotten the Coalition Government forced the car marker to close its factories in 2013.




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Farmers warn food prices could rise under new plans to keep low-skilled migrants out of the UK

Leaders in agriculture, hospitality and the care system lashed out at the Home Secretary after she dismissed fears over staff shortages caused by the proposed points-based system.




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Unarmed Mexican man, 26, shot by an ICE agent while visiting his mom is now suing the officer

Erick Diaz Cruz, left and right in hospital, was shot on February 6 by an agent who was part of a team trying to arrest his mother's boyfriend. He had been visiting NYC on a vacation. Scene inset.




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Home Office was branded 'institutionally racist' in report into Windrush deportation policy

The review into the Government's policy towards migrants has seen the claim edited out of the final draft. It was commissioned in 2018 after the Windrush scandal.




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Los Zetas hitmen their life sentences OVERTURNED due to legal technicality

Jose Emanuel Garcia Sota, aka 'Zafado,' and Jesus Ivan Quezada Pina, aka 'Loco,' were convicted three years ago in the February 2011 murder of ICE agent Jaime Zapata in Mexico.




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Undocumented Mexican man, 34, 'kills himself' while in ICE custody at jail in Ohio

David Hernández Colula, an undocumented male immigrant from Mexico, died Thursday by apparent suicide at a jail in Ohio, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said Friday.




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University women's team 'kicked Odion Ighalo off their training pitch'

Odion Ighalo angered a student football team while he was participating in a solo training session over the winter break, according to The Sun. 




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BBC Question Time row after guest who asked about immigration revealed as Tommy Robinson supporter

The BBC faces another vetting row after the woman who asked the panel about immigration was named online as Sherri Peach, allegedly a supporter of Tommy Robinson and Britain First.




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Mexican father-of-four locks himself inside his car for three hours before ICE officers left

Octavio Martínez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, locked himself in his vehicle for three hours and refused to honor ICE's request to turn himself in outside his California home.




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Pregnant mom is detained by ICE agents just moments after dropping her daughter off at pre-school 

Verónica Carmen Lara-Márquez, who is three months pregnant, was briefly detained by ICE last week in Philadelphia moments after leaving her four-year-old daughter at a school.




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How Sir Philip Rutnam's name has become a byword for bungled advice

Critics of Boris Johnson's Government and his sweeping reforms to the troubled immigration system will have a new hero following Sir Philip Rutnam's incendiary walkout.




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CBP arrests Mexican man smuggling 5.3 pounds of fentanyl, enough to kill at least 1.2 million people

CBP agents intercepted a Mexican national with 41.4 pounds of cocaine and 5.3 pounds of fentanyl in California. The confiscated fentanyl was enough to kill 1.2 million people.




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Brazlian man, 26, blamed in crash that killed four family members is cited for careless driving

Lucas Dos Reis Laurindo, a 26-year-old Brazilian national, was given a ticket for the fatal crash that left four family members dead near Disney World in Florida and was arrested trying to leave the U.S.




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Former British Army sergeant is stuck in Fiji and being prevented from returning to his wife

Ilaitia Cokanasiga, 48, from Fiji, said he felt 'immense pride' to have served with the UK armed forces but now feels 'betrayed' after he was let down by the government.




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Leaving the EU will leave Britain with an extra £40billion, Budget documents reveal 

The official Treasury 'Red Book' predicts that cash saved from EU contributions will total £42.3billion over the next five years.




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ICE STOP most undocumented immigrant arrests due to coronavirus

Immigration officials said it will delay the majority of its arrests of illegal immigrants due to the coronavirus pandemic except for those who pose a risk or have committed serious criminal acts.




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Bali lockdown: Tourists use SCUBA gear as PPE, armed guards wander streets and beaches are deserted

Bali has reported nine cases of coronavirus and two deaths while Indonesia is expected to past 1000 cases and currently has a death toll of 55 people.




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Jacinda Ardern angry at Australia for telling New Zealanders to go home amid coronavirus pandemic

Jacinda Ardern has taken aim at Australia's new ruling on temporary visa holders after acting Immigration Minister Alan Tudge effectively told thousands of out-of-work Kiwis to go home.




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Selena Gomez thinks Donald Trump can do better on immigration

The president's name came up when the Rare singer spoke to April issue of Vogue Arabia to promote the series Living Undocumented for Netflix, which she is a producer on.




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Bob Hawke's former business partner brutally attacked by a bikie at Villawood Detention Centre

Safwat Abdel-Hady was reportedly set upon by a furious Lone Wolf bikie after complaining about 'widespread' drug use at the immigration detention facility in Sydney.