A Chinese woman will be deported today after immigration officials ruled she was working as an unpaid nanny by looking after her niece in Oxfordshire.

A man has been removed from the UK after attempting to use a forged Lithuanian passport to cheat his way past border control at Plymouth port. He was caught when he couldn’t understand the Lithuanian translator provided for him.

Britain has avoided a lengthy immigration appeals process and damaging diplomatic row by revoking the visa of the exiled former Thai prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra, while he was out of the UK on business.

Tougher measures to prevent extremists entering the UK have been announced by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith. Ms Smith said: “Coming to the UK is a privilege and I refuse to extend that privilege to individuals who abuse our standards and values to undermine our way of life.”