No appeal for deportation family

The family were being held in Yarls Wood detention centre

An asylum seeking family who say they will be persecuted for being Christians if they are deported to Pakistan cannot appeal, the Home Office has said.

Nigel and Pearl Karim and children, Calvin, 11, and Crystal, 13, have lived in Nelson, Lancashire, since 2002.

Mrs Karim said the family's solicitor was planning a judicial review and the campaign to stay is continuing.

The family has received support from hundreds of people in their local community in their bid to win asylum.

Campaigners, who are putting pressure on the Home Office to release them, said the family face persecution because of their Christian beliefs.

"We are doing anything we possible can - I am a desperate woman and I am going to do anything to save my family from deportation," said Mrs Karim.

"If we go back our lives are in danger."