Police are continuing to hunt for immigration offenders who broke out of a detention centre.

The embarrassing security breach saw seven men flee the Campsfield House centre, in Oxfordshire, just before 4am.

Four were later re-captured - including one caught cycling away from the scene and one suffering from ankle injuries after leaping over the perimeter fence.

Another escapee was later found seven miles away at the Oxford University Botanic Garden.

The remaining three men are still being hunted by police.

The fiasco overshadowed the Government's launch of a strategy to deal with immigration offenders and police raids on an immigration racket of bent solicitors and bogus colleges.

In a wave of early morning raids, officers arrested eight men and a woman linked with companies they believe helped illegal immigrants to settle in the UK.

Officials think the firm of solicitors at the centre of the inquiry was issuing false education certificates to immigrants, who would then "enrol" at four bogus colleges across the capital and get student visas.

Today's document from the Home Office sets out steps to combat illegal immigration, saying companies that hire illegal workers will be named and shamed on its website, and pledging "automatic deportation" for foreign criminals jailed for more than a year.

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