Simon Israel , Senior Home Affairs Correspondent

As she updated MPs on her Brexit plans, Theresa May announced she’s scrapping the £65 fee for EU citizens to apply for so-called “settled status”.

The Government has made another appeal to MPs to support Theresa May’s Brexit deal in Tuesday’s crucial Commons vote as the Prime Minister warned if Brexit failed to happen it would be a ‘catastrophic’ breach of trust.

They are sweeping powers which allow the police to search anyone in an area where serious violence has happened – and the Met used section 60 powers this week in north east London after the murder of 14 year old Jaden Moodie.

Flights have been grounded at Heathrow for at least half an hour after a reported drone sighting earlier this evening. Within the last hour flights have resumed at the airport, the busiest in Europe.

Police have launched a murder hunt after a man was fatally stabbed on a train in Surrey at lunchtime. Officers were called after reports of an incident on the 12.58 train from Guildford to London.

The Prime Minister and police chiefs have commended the bravery of officers who confronted a knife wielding attacker in Manchester last night after three people were stabbed. A witness said the man shouted Allah during the frenzied New Year’s Eve assault.

The immigration minister says the number of migrants crossing the English Channel in recent days is “deeply concerning”. Twenty three migrants were involved in three separate rescues on the Kent coast overnight and this morning. It comes after more than forty migrants were picked up on Christmas day. Our Senior Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel…

One of the sectors which relies heavily on lower-skilled workers from abroad, especially the EU, is social care, and employers have warned they will find it hard to adapt and fill vacancies when freedom of movement comes to an end.

An aspect of the current climate on immigration has been the impact on those caught up in the Windrush scandal. The government’s promised hardship fund is finally offering any victims who are facing urgent financial need up to £5,000, but there won’t be any cash until well into the new year.

Fifteen activists have been found guilty of a terror related charge after they chained themselves around a plane at Stansted Airport – in a bid to stop an immigration removals flight from taking off. 

Five refugee families, marooned on a British military base in Cyprus for the past 20 years, will finally been allowed to resettle in the UK, Channel 4 News has learned.

The family of a man who died in police custody after he was Tasered and bitten by a police dog say they are devastated after police officers were exonerated over their actions.

Lessons were not learned from previous terror attacks and potential opportuntiies to prevent some of them were missed. That’s the damming verdict of an inquiry by a committee of MPs which found that MI5’s methods of monitoring suspects was not up to scratch and the system which regulates materials used for bomb making was “hopelessly…

The National Crime Agency has seized more than 50 handguns which were bought online from eastern Europe in a nationwide operation from Cornwall to Scotland. Twenty-five police forces were involved and 10 people were arrested, including a serving firefighter. The weapons are becoming popular with gangs because they’re small and easy to carry.

Tonight is usually one of the busiest nights of the year for firefighters. As well as the dangers of fighting fires, in recent years crews have been ambushed during call-outs. Last year, there were nearly a thousand attacks on fire crews across England and Wales.