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Today the home secretary asked the Migration Advisory Committee to start work on what comes next. We want a newcomer in forms, evidence based eu migration policy. Weve commissioned the mac to look into it, an independent group. The Home Secretary Set out a vague timetable, sort of, that there will be three phases. The first will end on the specified date, the day we leave the eu, probably march, 2019. Eu citizens who are already here, who have five years residency, will be able to apply for a se...

Reading Jail formally closed in January 2014 and has been empty ever since.

Reading Jail formally closed in January 2014 and has been empty ever since.

Australia’s most decorated soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, loses his defamation case against Nine Newspapers which published a series of articles in 2018 which accused him of unlawful killings in Afghanistan.

Sean Harris (left) and PJ Povey, members of the Irish United Nations Veterans Association, pictured after laying a wreath at a remembrance event to mark the…

Arthur Joseph Griffith was born at 61 Upper Dominick Street, Dublin, son of Arthur Charles Griffith, printer, and Mary Whelan. He attended the local Christian Brothers school and began work as an o...

ON Sunday night, BBC1’s Bafta Awards boldly declared Benjamin Zephaniah’s poetry show Life & Rhymes to be better ­entertainment than Strict

Banksy Paints Escaping Oscar Wilde Mural For LGBTQ+ History Month / / Banksy has confirmed that he was behind an artwork that appeared on a wall at HM Reading Prison earlier in the week. The notorious Victorian gaol best known for Oscar Wilde’s incarceration has become the latest mural in his politically charged archive. It’s no coincidence that the stencilled painting depicts an escaping prisoner shimmying down a rope made from a roll of paper held straight by a typewriter. This is an ...

TODAYS talk of the town has most noticeably about the graffiti artwork which sprung up on the side of the former Reading Jail, which is widely…