NEW: Thanks Mahamat, Mousa, Ashraf & Faizanullah for sharing their stories with me. They’re from Chad, Libya & Afghanistan, and came to the UK on small boats, seeking asylum. Thanks also to Cannock Chase Welcomes Refugees for contributing. My #bbcnews report👇🏽#Refugees #Immigration #Migration

🎙 Today we spoke to Daz Hale BBC Radio WM BBC Birmingham & Black Country about the support we've received from the Salvation Army, the Methodist Church and other local groups in cannock to welcome people seeking asylum 🌞🧡 Listen here 👇🏻

Best thing about #Cannock? ' We hear about the great things happening Chase Terrace Academy and Cannock Chase Welcomes Refugees. Plus a special appearance from Mick 'Mr Sizzle'! Our Summer Tour continues with Daz Hale BBC Radio WM in the glorious sunshine. Listen - bbc.in/3NbgjHZ

🧵 🚨 BREAKING: The Government's Illegal Migration Bill has completed all its stages in parliament, received royal approval, and is now an Act of Parliament. This means it's up to the Government to put this law into action.

Many beautiful words said about the great #SineadOConnor Lovely pic here from 2000, when on an Anti Nazi League demonstration defending refugees... One in a million. May she be at peace. Thanks to Claire Diss Love Music Hate Racism

A government source accuses Fire Brigades Union of a "betrayal of our country and the British people". We say well done for making a stand for refugees and workers facing unsafe conditions on #GrenfellBarge #RefugeesWelcome Stand Up To Racism news.sky.com/story/bibby-st…

Solidarity with Fire Brigades Union and especially our friends at FBU Staffordshire who wholly supported our campaign kick the fascists out of Cannock! #RefugeesWelcome #EndTheHostileEnvironment #NoPasarán #ResistRacism #FBU #CannockChaseWelcomesRefugees

Thanks Stan Collymore we agree! If you'd like to come and meet us please get in touch! #RefugeesWelcome #CeasefireNOW

196 aid workers have been killed in Gaza since October. They put their lives on the line to help people. They are the best of us. It shouldn’t take the killing of British Nationals to wake political leaders up to the devastation being inflicted in Gaza. bbc.com/news/world-mid…

Here is tomorrow's (4/4/24) front-page from The Independent:

Shameful. Afghans who stood by British troops now detained for Rwanda deportation. They risked their lives for us. Now, we abandon them? #StopTheRaids #StopRwanda #RwandaNotInOurName #RefugeesWelcome inews.co.uk/news/home-offi…

There's never a bad time to share a video of that time Akala humiliated Yaxley-Lennon on TV, but now seems as good a time as any.

Here’s just a few examples of Daily Mail headlines that have fanned the flames of hate and normalised Islamophobic and anti-migrant rhetoric #GMB

We were at the Tamworth hotel last night and the scenes were utterly despicable. Racist violence on a scale we’ve not seen for years. The fact the hotel has had to be evacuated in the middle of the night is shameful. We send our solidarity to the residents 💚

We stood in solidarity with residents trapped in the #Tamworth hotel last night while 200+ violent far-right thugs terrorised them. This is the consequence of years of politicians and the media stoking racism and division in our communities