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A British couple held for 66 hours by police after burglars were shot at their home have moved to Australia because of worries about a revenge attack. Andy and Tracey Ferrie have quit the UK to be away from the “living nightmare” that they have gone through since the incident occurred one month ago. Two men have now been sent to prison...

Foreign students in the UK are to be marked out in immigration figures as the government focuses on monitoring those who come in and go out of the country more closely. Students who are not from Europe are set to be “disaggregated” within total net migration data in part of a new transparency initiative. Ministers have also revealed...

Police have charged the gardener of a British woman living in France with her murder. Although they are yet to find a body, investigating officers say blood matching Patricia Wilson’s profile was found in her cottage in the village of Vabre Tizac and in her gardener’s car. The 58-year-old sold her property portfolio in the UK to move...

The European Court of Justice has ruffled feathers by ruling that all British pensioners living in Switzerland and the European Economic Area should be able to claim the government’s annual winter fuel subsidy. Since 1998, the handout of £300 has been available to all pensions in the UK but only expats who moved abroad after turning...

British manufacturing workers have come out on top of a poll to see who is most likely to looking for employment overseas, revealed a survey by research and consultancy company Intelligence Group and jobsite Totaljobs.com. The survey quizzed more than 7,000 British workers and discovered that out of the people interested in or seeking for...

New UK immigration rules regarding marriages with overseas residents which came into force recently shows that Pakistani residents in the country would be the hardest hit. Every year, roughly 40,000 people arrive in Britain on spouse on marriage visas. The amount of British Pakistanis travelling to Pakistan to marry has been rising. Most...

British expats affected by the eurozone troubles and planning to return home and buy property in the UK may end up being refused a mortgage. Thousands of UK nationals who emigrated to Greece, Cyprus and Spain to seek a better standard of living are thought to be ready to return to Britain after being hit with poor exchange rates and...

There is an increasing number of graduates seeking job opportunities overseas but using a stint in a foreign country as a way of avoiding repaying debt may have serious repercussions. Moving abroad to escape student debt could seem like the perfect way to get out of making repayments but borrowers now face the possibility of fines or court...

Annual net migration to the UK is still at record high levels of over 250,000 per year in spite of Home Secretary Theresa May’s declared ambition to reduce it to less than 100,000 before the next election. Figures published on Thursday by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed that the politically sensitive net migration figure...

Prime office buildings in London have become popular among South Korean institutional investors looking for low-risk assets, reports the Financial Times. Attracted by the UK capital’s high investment returns in relation to risk, South Korea’s cash-rich insurers and investment funds are searching more and more for bargains in the...