Free movement will end when Britain leaves the European Union in March 2019, the Immigration Minister has said.

Seven people have been arrested on suspicion of immigration offences after a yacht got stuck on the River Ore.

Around 794lb (360kg) of cocaine with a potential value of £50m has washed up on two beaches in Norfolk, England.

A 21-year-old British woman has died and a 30-year-old British man is in a critical condition after being stabbed at a backpackers' hostel in Queensland, Australia, by a man who allegedly shouted "Allahu Akbar" during the attack.

Latest: Two British men have been remanded in custody charged with immigration offences after 18 Albanians were rescued from a sinking boat in the English Channel.

A group of 28 suspected illegal immigrants have been discovered in a lorry in England.

Forty-five potential trafficking victims were discovered in Northern Ireland last year.

More than £40m sterling (€50.5m) worth of cocaine has been seized in the UK by a joint oprtation between Gardaí, the National Crime Agency and the Border Force.

Enhanced screening for ebola will begin at Britain’s biggest airport today as prime minister David Cameron insisted "vigorous steps" were being taken to prevent the deadly virus reaching the UK.

Questions have been raised about British Government plans to introduce enhanced screening for Ebola at major airports and terminals, after Gatwick said it knew nothing about the measures.

Macedonia has confirmed it is checking for the ebola virus in a British man who died within hours of being admitted to hospital in the capital Skopje yesterday.

Afghan immigrants found after one of their group died are thought to have been inside a cargo container for 18 hours.

Thirteen children, including a child as young as one, were among the Afghan immigrants rescued from a shipping container on Saturday.

Twelve critically endangered iguanas seized from Romanian smugglers at Heathrow Airport have been returned to their native Bahamas.

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Drugs worth around £70,000 (€81,000) and a sawn-off shotgun have been recovered during a police raid in Co Antrim.

Border officials at one of Britain’s busiest airports could have conducted illegal searches of luggage without passengers’ knowledge, inspectors have warned.

Almost 20 illegal immigrants were found hiding inside a truck bound for Dublin.

The British Government will examine the possibility of including police in the new Border Force, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said today.