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Australian firm awarded ‘alarming’ £1.6bn contract for UK asylum barges

An Australian travel firm has been given a two-year contract worth £1.6bn to handle the UK’s new asylum barges and accommodation, according to an investigation by a British newspaper. It’s reported that, despite being criticised for poor handling of covid quarantine hotels, Corporate Travel Management (CTM) was quietly given the lucrative contract in February 2023, before […]

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Barge for 500 migrants arrives in Falmouth for refit

A giant barge that will house migrants off the UK coast has arrived in Falmouth for a refit, taking its capacity from 222 to 506 people. The Bibby Stockholm, which was towed from its former berth in Italy to the UK south coast, will later will be moved to its final destination of Portland in […]