The 222-bedroom, three-storey vessel will house about 500 migrants when it is in position in Portland Port Plans to house 500 migrants in a barge off the Dorset coast are "cruel and inhumane ...

Former Labour leader and MP Jeremy Corbyn opposes the UK government's plan to house 500 adult male migrants on a prison ship off the Dorset coast. He criticizes the policy as "morally indefensible ...

Work follows a fire inspection which called for five changes to improve safety at the barge moored at Portland Docks, Dorset ...

About 500 adult male migrants will be housed in a barge on the Dorset coast "in the coming months", the government has confirmed. The plans have been criticised by local groups, refugee charities ...

Exclusive: Fire Brigades Union outlines ‘serious fire and safety concerns’ over Bibby Stockholm Suella Braverman’s stalled plan to house asylum seekers on a giant barge is facing a major ...

Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile The new arrivals come amid a steady rise in migration to the European Union country, which officials mostly attribute to ...

EXCLUSIVE: Migrant Amin Khan had fled his home country in Afghanistan to evade death at the hands of the Taliban. The 20-year ...

The Government is set to hire a number of additional barges to tackle Britain’s migrant crisis, despite the Bibby Stockholm still housing no asylum seekers. The flagship barge, docked in Dorset ...

Labour’s new plan will lead to 100,000 more migrants entering Britain as part of a burden-sharing arrangement with the EU ...

Exclusive: Fire Brigades Union outlines ‘serious fire and safety concerns’ over Bibby Stockholm Suella Braverman’s stalled plan to house asylum seekers on a giant barge is facing a major ...