Simon Israel , Senior Home Affairs Correspondent

Environmental protesters are claiming a moral victory after a High Court Judge said they were free to demonstrate at drilling sites across southern England. However, the UK Oil and Gas company welcomed the judge’s decision to prevent them from any activities that interfere with its business.

Relatives of a man from the Windrush generation – who died of heart failure while trying to prove his British citizenship – have stormed out of the inquest into his death today. 

Too many of Britain’s prisons are blighted by violence, poor safety and high levels of drug use – a situation, say ministers, which simply can’t go on. Today Prisons Minister Rory Stewart announced a £10m plan to curb the supply of drugs at ten of England’s “most challenging” jails. He called it a “back to…

Counter-terrorism officers are still questioning a 29-year-old British man who drove a small car into a security barrier in front of the Houses of Parliament early this morning, injuring pedestrians and cyclists. The police say the man, who’s not known to them, is not co-operating with the inquiry. Officers have been searching three properties in…

The family of a murdered Maltese journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has begun a legal battle with the island’s Prime Minister for a public inquiry into her death.

More than a hundred education leaders are calling on the Home Secretary to reduce Britain’s child citizenship fees, which a campaign group says are the highest in Europe. At a thousand pounds per child, registration costs ten times more than in Spain, France and Sweden. The chief inspector of borders and immigration has launched a…

The Prince of Wales has written a letter expressing deep regrets over being deceived by a former bishop, a friend of his, who was convicted of historic child abuse. He described his remorse in a letter to an inquiry today. He also denied trying to influence a police investigation into the disgraced bishop, Peter Ball.…

The recent number of emotive cases involving children who are unable to get legal prescriptions for the cannabis derived medicines they need, prompted an outcry of public sympathy. Today, the Home Secretary Sajid Javid responded with the announcement that he’s relaxing the laws to allow medicinal cannabis to be made available on prescription. The decision…

The Home Secretary has apologised unreservedly to the family of a Windrush migrant and has offered to meet them. This programme has seen Sajid Javid’s letter on the day an inquest opened into Dexter Bristol’s death. He came to Britain from Grenada as a child in the 1960s. But he died jobless and fearing deportation,…

Figures released today show that the rates of murder, robbery and carrying knives have risen sharply. Alongside this is a decline in detection – only 9 per cent of crimes now result in either a charge or a summons. Please be warned – there are distressing images from the start of this report.

Now to an immigration story which has echoes of Donald Trump’s Mexican border policy, only it involves the authorities in the UK. We have been speaking exclusively to a father who was separated from his three-year-old daughter who was nearly put up for adoption while he was detained. They’ve been awarded £50,000 in compensation from…

An inquest jury has found a catalogue of failures against a police force after a father died after being restrained by Surrey police under the Mental Health Act in 2013. Channel 4 News has obtained exclusive footage of what happened that night. Our Senior Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel reports.

The ground temperature has soared to 500 degrees Celsius, hot enough to melt tyres, as hundreds of firefighters and soldiers continue to battle the wildfires still raging across the Lancashire moors. One fire chief described the scene as like an “apocalypse”. Crews from around the country have joined forces, including helicopters dropping thousands of litres…

Our Senior Home Affairs Correspondent, Simon Israel, reports.

Most women behind bars have committed non-violent offences, and many have experienced abusive relationships or mental health issues. Campaigners have long railed against the “futility” of prison for such women, and today the government said instead of planned new prisons it will now build five residential centres.