TOM STOPPARD: A LIFE by Hermione Lee (Faber £30, 860pp) Transport yourself, in these sad days of silenced theatres, to a full-house Old Vic on the evening of April 11, 1967. It’s the opening night of Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead, first performed the previous summer at the Edinburgh Fringe where it had terrible reviews … Read more
Greece has accused migrants of deliberately burning their overcrowded camp in Lesbos last week where hundreds were forced to relocate to. Families, children, young men and pregnant women have been left wandering aimlessly since a blaze ripped through the Moria camp on the night of September 8, forcing its 12,000 occupants to sleep rough in … Read more
Sir David Attenborough has revealed how he helped reunite the families of two Jewish refugee sisters who fled Nazi Germany on the Kindertransport and were taken in by his parents during the Second World War. Irene and Helga Bejach, aged 13 and 12 respectively, arrived in August 1939, just 17 days before war broke out, … Read more
Thousands of migrants left homeless on the Greek island of Lesbos after fires destroyed the overcrowded Moria camp protested against a new refugee camp being built on the island today. Clapping and chanting songs, the protesters demanding to leave the island were boisterous but peaceful on the road leading to the island’s main town. Some held … Read more
Greece‘s largest migrant camp has been destroyed by a fire that is thought to have broken out after asylum seekers who had tested positive for coronavirus refused to go into isolation with their families. The Moria camp, on the island of Lesbos, was ‘completely destroyed’ by a blaze which began at 2am Wednesday, the country’s … Read more
Gary Lineker has revealed why he is inviting a refugee to come and live in his £4 million five-bedroom Surrey mansion. In just a few weeks times Lineker, the BBC‘s highest paid employee with a salary of £1.75 million, will welcome a migrant into his home in Barnes. Last month, the 59-year-old former England striker … Read more
Migrant ‘DIES’ aboard Banksy-funded refugee rescue boat as it is stranded in Mediterranean Sea due to being overcrowded with 219 passengers Artist Banksy funded ex-French navy boat to rescue migrants in Mediterranean But the vessel has become stranded off coast of Malta with 200 people onboard Ship’s captain says emergency calls for assistance are being ignored … Read more
Terror twins, 22, who fled UK to become ISIS jihadi brides speak after being caught trying to escape Syrian refugee camp in bid to return to Europe Salma and Zahra Halane reportedly detained in high-security detention centre They now say they want to be repatriated to Denmark, the country of their birth Girls – dubbed … Read more
French police investigate Rwandan refugee, 39, after he admitted arson attack on Nantes cathedral Rwandan refugee, 39, admitted he was responsible for the cathedral inferno Questioned for second time yesterday and confessed to fire early this morning Took 104 firefighters to tackle the blaze which started in three places on July 18 By Lydia Catling … Read more
Jihadi bride Shamima Begum has been pictured today wearing jeans, a shirt and a blue hat as she walked through a Syrian refugee camp just hours after she won her bombshell High Court case to return to the UK and challenge the stripping of her British citizenship. Begum – one of three east London schoolgirls … Read more