Wednesday 27 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)