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Some media coverage of new immigration returns figures has appeared to suggest they show the number of asylum seekers returned.

We don’t know how many of these returns involved asylum seekers, though previous data suggests it may be a minority.

Immigration returns

Social media posts have claimed a video shows the first-person perspective of a firefighter tackling the fires in LA.

This is not correct. The video was originally posted by the camera company GoPro on 8 November 2024 and was filmed by a firefighter in Santiago, Chile.

Fire footage

Culture secretary Lisa Nandy claimed the OECD is confident the UK is “on track to become the fastest growing economy in Europe”.

This claim doesn’t appear to be supported by the latest OECD projections. Several European countries are projected to have higher GDP growth than the UK in 2025 and 2026.

Growth projections