Dorset Bibby Stockholm News

16/02/2024

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/24115082.portland-barge-buses-run-weymouth-without-passengers/

CONCERNS have been raised that buses running to and from the Bibby Stockholm barge at Portland Port are often carrying no passengers.

16/02/2024

https://www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2024/02/16/bibby-stockholm-high-court/

A local resident is back in court over the Bibby Stockholm - trying to get the barge shut down, while exposing racist government policy too

08/02/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-68239004.amp

A church says 40 Muslim men on the Dorset-based barge are converting to Christianity.

01/02/2024

https://www.dorsetcouncil.gov.uk/news/bibby-stockholm-update-from-the-multi-agency-forum-1

Bibby Stockholm update January 2024 Purpose: This is a joint update from the subgroups that feed into the Multi Agency Forum (MAF), which supports operational planning of the Bibby Stockholm barge in Portland. The MAF consists of representatives from the Home Office,…

30/01/2024

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/24075740.asylum-seekers-portland-barge-face-rwanda-deportation/

ASYLUM seekers living on board the Bibby Stockholm have seen their asylum claims paused and have been sent letters which could see them be sent to…

25/01/2024

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/bibby-stockholm-torture-victims-asylum-barge-home-office-leonard-farruku/

Revelation comes weeks after death of Leonard Farruku on board the controversial asylum barge

25/01/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-68080820.amp

A protest is held after about 400 asylum seekers are told their rooms will "no longer be available".

20/01/2024

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/24061274.asylum-seeker-court-charged-theft-assault/

An asylum seeker living on board the Bibby Stockholm barge has appeared in court charged with assault and theft.

20/01/2024

The article is unfortunately behind a paywall:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/01/19/bibby-stockholm-asylum-seeker-right-to-work/

18/01/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-68013203.amp

There is controversy over living conditions on board the Bibby Stockholm.

17/01/2024

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/24055778.arrest-warrant-issued-asylum-seeker-due-court/?ref=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR02OqoGGb6i3_5nGL6a_9h-zlIDUNb0MoicB3PMgHzV3Uio-bW8VdMZBFk

A warrant has been issued for an asylum seeker living on board the Bibby Stockholm after he did not appear in court

16/01/2024

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/politics/25385513/home-office-give-up-secure-more-migrant-barges/amp/

THE Home Office has all-but given up trying to secure more migrant barges, The Sun has been told. Insiders said gaining new vessels to house asylum seekers was now “not a priority” following failed…

14/01/2024

https://news.sky.com/story/four-migrants-die-while-attempting-to-cross-channel-to-uk-13048009

The migrants had come into "difficulty at sea" as they tried to reach a boat in freezing water off the coast of Wimereux, Pas-de-Calais, according to reports in France.

13/01/2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/columnists/article-12952625/amp/Richard-Littlejohn-BBC-migrants-Bibby-Stockholm-asylum-barge.html

RICHARD LITTLEJOHN: This is the BBC News. There now follows a partly political broadcast on behalf of asylum seekers.

13/01/2024

https://www.gbnews.com/news/asylum-seekers-bibby-stockholm-debate

Carole Malone and Scarlett MccGwire clashed over the conditions on the Bibby Stockholm

13/01/2024

https://www.gbnews.com/news/migrant-crisis-first-boat-2024-arrives-dover

The French patrol vessel Armois reported that it was escorting a migrant boat as it made its way across the Channel

11/01/2024

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Are conditions on the Bibby Stockholm barge too harsh?

The former roommate of the Albanian migrant, who is suspected to have taken his own life, says their concerns aren't being dealt with.

What do you think?

10/01/2024

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-67927647?fbclid=IwAR2yGR_p5y5BmnBervohUAXDBGvtIK-g_Tf1aXyOo7vVRUVm3gECiITitm8_aem_ATzrz0ao7F-Y-pFqMrveil28RORgVJU7msvshXKKuggDL4_H4niL-9La0ExgbDZzerk

The roommate of an asylum seeker who died on the barge says conditions on board are "getting worse".

09/01/2024

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09/01/2024

https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/news/bibby-stockholm-nadia-whittome-asylum-seekers-b2475461.html

Conditions on the Bibby Stockholm barge are “harrowing and humiliating,” a Labour MP has claimed. Nadia Whittome met with asylum seekers housed on the vessel and asked them about the conditions on board. “The men I met said it felt like living in a prison,” Ms Whittome said, adding that thei...

08/01/2024

What is the agreement that Portland Port signed? How long will the barge stay?

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07/01/2024

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Since it was announced earlier this year that asylum seekers would be housed on a barge moored off Portland, the Bibby Stockholm barge has made…

06/01/2024

https://inews.co.uk/news/bibby-barge-raf-wethersfield-cant-used-house-asylum-seekers-2834151

Asylum seekers who say they are children wrongly categorised as adults will no longer be moved to the Bibby Stockholm barge, RAF Wethersfield or RAF Scampton

06/01/2024

05/01/2024

https://ukandeu.ac.uk/explainers/illegal-migration-act-2023/

Joelle Grogan and Alice Donald explain what the Illegal Migration Act sets out to do and which parts have been brought into force.

04/01/2024

https://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/24023569.barge-protestor-tried-glue-hand-police-car-fined/?ref=socialflow&fbclid=IwAR3pz50QaE3yZzxuVEvwcqNhWTQ-nPW4l2fdjdTnZEkq3RhhIKyR6u9dFmY

A protestor who attempted to glue her hand to a police car during a protest against the Bibby Stockholm Barge at Portland Port has been ordered to…

04/01/2024

https://freemovement.org.uk/briefing-the-sorry-state-of-the-uk-asylum-system/

The asylum system seems finally to have turned a corner: the asylum backlog is starting to fall. The backlog is the single most important problem with the asylum system. Unlike arrivals, it is something the government can control. It creates huge financial costs for the taxpayer. It sucks money out....

02/01/2024

Dorset Council have a potential challenge to supply accommodation to the asylum seekers currently staying on the Bibby Stockholm. Asylum seekers have 28days to find a job and housing once their claims are approved. There is no surplus of social housing around Weymouth and Portland.