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    Thousands of holidaymakers are believed to be without their luggage after a power failure at Heathrow airport disabled the electronic baggage systems. The airport said it was working hard to reunite passengers with their bags as quickly as possible, after the second incident in the space of about a month that left many passing through Terminal 5 unable to fly with their suitcases. One passenger said that while he managed to get his bags on the plane as hand luggage, many others did not. Fintan Gormley, a member of the Baku Celtic supporter’s club (Baku CSC) who was flying home to Azerbaijan to watch his team play a pre-season friendly, said: “It was very bad. Luckily, I managed to get a massive bag on as hand luggage. It was full of the Baku CSC shirts, so we couldn’t ...

    Immigration Enforcement officers raid a residential property looking for illegal immigrants in Southall, West London. Landlords who rent properties to illegal immigrants will face up to five years in prison under a crackdown to be announced by the Government on 3 August. The move is part a drive to make it harder for migrants to live in the UK when they have no right to be in the country. It is also aimed at landlords who house immigrants in unsafe and overcrowded properties. A blacklist of “rogue landlords” and letting agents who are repeat offenders will be created and they will be banned. Under a law passed last year, landlords are required to check the residency status of tenants before offering them an agreement. If they fail to do so, face a civil penalty of up t...

    London schoolgirls who they recruited three of her classmates to join IS in Syria was radicalised at an east London mosque who runing by Islamic Forum of Europe, it has been reported. Sharmeena Begum fled to Syria to join the terrorist group aged just 15 last December. Months later, three of her school friends at the Bethnal Green Academy in Tower Hamlets - Shamima Begum, Amira Abase and Kadiza Sultana - joined her after she allegedly groomed them. The Mail on Sunday reported today that Sharmeena was radicalised at the East London Mosque in Whitechapel by women from a group called Islamic Forum of Europe. The group has previously been mired in controversy after one of its founders was accused of murders and war crimes in Bangladesh. The newspaper reported that Sharme...