'Utterly outrageous'

The Independent's Morning Headlines email [The Independent]( July 19, 2023 [View online](   [Morning Headlines]( 1 /[Now n-word found in official immigration documents]( More racist slurs have been found in [government]( documents as ministers face calls for a full-scale inquiry following an investigation by The Independent. Officials [outlining two separate immigration tribunal decisions](, each concerning the right of an asylum seeker to remain in the UK, refer to the applicants’ ethnicity as “N*****d”. In the first instance, a child, 17, who had fled Somalia for fear of persecution, was at the centre of an appeal hearing after the [Home Office]( decided he was not entitled to refugee status and should be removed from the UK. “He is a member of the Tunni clan,” the official document reads, “[...] a N*****d group federated to the Tunni of Brava as vassals.” Published in 2005, the document was updated in 2013, however the slur is still visible online, raising questions about why this language has been used and why it remains unaddressed years later. A second tribunal document, also dated 2005 and updated eight years later, contains the same offensive word. The document relates to a battle over a Somalian person’s right to remain in Britain. “Physical appearance: [...] N*****d features, particularly the hair,” the paperwork reads. Following our reporting on the n-word scandal, the vice-chair of the all-party parliamentary group on race, Kim Johnson MP, wrote to Cabinet Office minister Jeremy Quin demanding an investigation. “It is utterly outrageous that such language is still being used in official Government documents,” her letter read.   2 /[UK inflation falls as prices rise slower than expected]( Inflation drops to 7.9 per cent, but food price hikes ease only slightly 3 /[Woman jailed for taking abortion pills after legal cut-off to be freed from prison]( ‘This is a very sad case... It is a case that calls for compassion, not punishment,’ judge says 4 /[Migrant barge with less living space than an average parking bay arrives in Dorset]( Two more vessels commissioned by Rishi Sunak have nowhere to dock and are ‘returned to owners’ 5 /[UK to add 9,000 jobs as Jaguar Land Rover builds electric battery ‘gigafactory’]( Car firm’s owners Tata expected to confirm news on Wednesday THE BIG QUESTION [How long is the heatwave in Europe expected to last?]( [Europe]( is set to continue to bake under extreme [heat]( for weeks as global [temperatures]( soar towards alarming highs with records expected to be broken. Another anticyclone dubbed “Charon”, who in Greek mythology was the ferryman of the dead, advanced into the Mediterranean region from North Africa on Sunday and could soon lift temperatures well above 45C in parts of [Italy](, [Spain]( and [Greece](. The unrelenting heatwave has shown no sign of abating on Tuesday, with Italy bracing for its highest-ever temperature as Sardinia and Sicily have been forecast to reach 48C. Meanwhile, 20 out of the country’s 27 main cities have been issued with red warning alerts - signalling a possible health threat for anyone exposed to the heat - with the number expected to rise to 23 today. 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