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HUNDREDS of people are expected today at the funeral of a Jamaican woman who died in the notorious Yarl’s Wood detention centre in Bedfordshire.
Christine Case, 40, was imprisoned in the centre after being refused permission to live and work in Britain.
She was found dead at 8am on March 30. The circumstances of her death are not known.
Groups are urging the US government to secure the 16-year old’s release as his mental and physical health decline dramatically after nine months inside Ofer prison, writes LINDA PENTZ GUNTER
CLAUDIA WEBBE argues that Labour gains nothing from its adoption of right-wing stances on immigration, and seems instead to be deliberately paving the way for the far right to become an established force in British politics, as it has already in Europe
Gin Lane by William Hogarth is a critique of 18th-century London’s growing funeral trade, posits DAN O’BRIEN
