Tuesday, 26 May 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Council of Europe highlights xenophobia in Belgium
Europe's top watchdog flags up persistence of far-right violence, police abuse and language-based...
European Voice (26-May-2009)

£20,000 to keep Carlisle advice surgery open
An advice service in Botcherby, Carlisle, is to continue after being granted £20,000 of funding from Riverside. The advice surgeries will be held two days a week at the Botcherby HLI office on Botcherby...
News & Star (26-May-2009)

Letters: European elections
Labour and Tories let in the anti-EU lunatic...
The Independent (26-May-2009)

Frauds cast doubt on student immigration checks
| By Richard Staines Four nurses have been jailed this month for falsely claiming student bursaries and then illegally working in the UK. A registered learning disabilities nurse, Dzikamai Mhakayakora, was jailed for nine months and Definate Mukwe was jailed for a...
Nursing Times (26-May-2009)

Two charged after protest march in Luton
Two of the nine people arrested over disorder during a protest march in Luton were charged today. The largely peaceful march, in support of the armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, took place on Sunday, but was marred by anti-Muslim protests, according to Bedfordshire...
Guardian Unlimited - G2 (25-May-2009)

Family of Winston Churchill slams BNP over far-right party's attempt to hijack wartime leader's legacy
Relatives of Sir Winston Churchill have denounced as monstrous an attempt by BNP leader Nick Griffin to cloak himself in the mantle of Britain's greatest wartime...
The Mail On Sunday (25-May-2009)