France has rejected a plan to carry out a joint charter flight with Britain to deport to Kabul 43 Afghans found without papers near Calais.

Police have seized 23 illegal firearms and arrested almost 300 people, eight of them for immigration offences, during a crackdown on serious and organised crime in Scotland.

No Borders South Wales wants people nationwide to protest against BMI Airlines for their part in the forced removal of migrants from the UK.

Immigration officers have arrested 27 people working at a chicken processing factory in Lancashire on suspicion of offences including illegal entry into the UK. The UK Border Agency said those arrested account for almost half of the workforce at Gaffor Poultry in Preston.

A 30-year-old Bolivian led the largest single organised attempt to breach border controls in Scotland, immigration officials claimed yesterday. He was detained by officers from the UK Border Agency at Edinburgh Airport on Friday amid claims that nearly 60 people from the South American country tried to enter Scotland illegally.

A man has been arrested after immigration officers swooped on a Hebburn food store. He has now been detained pending his removal from the UK.

A failed asylum seeker who found himself at the centre of an immigration storm after he was discovered selling pornographic DVDs in a North Yorkshire town has been kicked out of the UK. The 36-year-old had been controversially allowed to walk free following his court case because nobody from the UK Border Agency was prepared to collect him – with immigration officials instead sending him a letter asking him to voluntarily come to their offices.