The Local Labour MP wants the site moved to Swansea, while Plaid Cymru say the prison should not be built at all. The UK government said the plans could create up to 500 jobs. Botany Bay was the ...

THE former chief financial officer of the defunct Botany Bay Council could face up to 17 years in prison if charged and convicted of fraud and corruption offences. The Independent Commission ...

The pack-jammed convict ships which once plied between Britain’s jails and the prison pens of Botany Bay had nothing on the destroyer Yoizuki. She was a hell-ship to match the worst of them.

The solution: an “open air prison, with walls 14,000 miles thick”. So was born Britain’s Sydney Cove experiment near Botany Bay. Banished (BBC2, Thursdays, 9pm) – a gripping seven-part ...