Mutiny asylum centre nearly empty

Some 430 detainees have been moved from an immigration centre after it was damaged during large-scale unrest.

About 50 people are left at Harmondsworth, the largest complex of its kind in the UK, following protests over living conditions.

Those transferred - about 144 foreign nationals and 286 immigration offenders - have been moved to various prisons and immigration centres.

Damage caused by the mutiny could rise to millions of pounds.

About 150 "low risk" detainees will be released from other centres so the Harmondsworth evacuees can be transferred.

Protests erupted at the centre on 29 November following a prison watchdog report which was critical of standards there.