Tuesday, 19 May 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Police raid suspected brothel
A FLAT thought to have been a brothel has been raided by police. A man and a woman were arrested when officers with a warrant raided the flat in Ashbourne Court, All Saints Road, Newmarket, yesterday (Monday).
Cambridge News Online (19-May-2009)

Kanafanis challenge Austrian integration policy
The Kanafani Inter-Cultural Initiative (Kulturverein Kanafani) in Vienna, which publishes the journal der.wisch, has set itself a goal: to challenge the mainstream political debate in Austrian over 'integration'.
IRR News (19-May-2009)

Prison nurse jailed for defrauding NHS
19 May 09 An NHS substance misuse nurse who worked illegally at Chelmsford Prison has been sentenced to a total of one years imprisonment following an investigation by NHS Counter Fraud and the UK Border...
www.info4security.com (19-May-2009)

Blood trail led police to killer
Look North, Newcastle In one bedroom of the ground floor flat in Newcastle was Xi Zhou, bound, gagged and beaten to death. In the second bedroom was Zhen Xing Yang, also badly beaten and with his throat...
BBC News UK (19-May-2009)

EU to unveil new plans to fight illegal immigration: report
(ROME) - European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso told an Italian newspaper Tuesday he will unveil new plans to combat illegal immigration to Europe within...
EUbusiness.com (19-May-2009)

Record fine for Essex restaurant owners
from Caterer.com UK employers have been reminded of the need to check the backgrounds of any new employees they offer bar and restaurant work to. The owners of Temptations Chinese Restaurant on Balkerne Hill, Colchester, have been fined a record £96,000 in respect of six breaches of the Asylum and...
Jobs News Wire (19-May-2009)

Mali resists aiding French deportations
Diawoye Keita had been living in France for 16 years before he was deported back to Mali at the end of last year. He had been working and paying taxes in France, but he had never managed to get the right to permanently live...
BBC (19-May-2009)

Home Office: IPS to hang onto snaps of fingerprints
How...
The Register (19-May-2009)

London needs new talent to keep us on top
A few weeks ago a woman emailed me to comment on a piece I'd written about universities. Bea Vo wanted to set me right about one aspect of the American...
This is London (19-May-2009)

Tories cultivated me to leak documents, says fired mole
The Home Office mole who was arrested and lost his job after leaking documents today hit out at the Conservative party for betraying him. Christopher Galley, a 27 year old civil servant, leaked documents to Damian Green, the Shadow Immigration...
This is London (19-May-2009)

Fife restaurants licence suspended
A CHINESE restaurant in Dunfermline has had its licence to sell alcohol suspended for a week after employing illegal...
The Courier (19-May-2009)

BNP campaigns plane error
THE BRITISH National Partys European Parliament campaign is using a Spitfire to illustrate an election leaflet calling for an end to immigration that was actually part of a Polish...
The Courier (19-May-2009)

Migrants twice as likely to die at work
MIGRANT workers were more likely to be killed in workplace accidents than UK employees, with construction having the worst record for their safety, according to a new report published...
The Scotsman (19-May-2009)

Forced removal will remain a last resort for those who defy the law
It used to be that folk such as I could turn to Labour as the upholder of basic human values: freedom, free speech, a desire to serve - all that old-fashioned stuff eclipsed in exemplary fashion first by Tony Blair and now by Gordon Brown as Prime...
The Herald_uk (19-May-2009)

Rise of Europe's extreme politics
The economic gloom and public disillusionment with incumbent governments has Euro MPs worried that voters will turn to the fringes at the polling booth next month. Vanessa Mock...
The Independent (19-May-2009)

Judge questions role of expert reports
Experienced immigration caseworkers do not have to take account of paediatrician reports when assessing the age of asylum seekers claiming to be under 18, the High Court has ruled in a judgment that could reduce the significance of expert reports in immigration...
Solicitors Journal (19-May-2009)

Polish children get taught Polish in Scotland
Teaching Polish children Polish in a Scottish school to improve their English skills may sound a little illogical, but this is exactly what is happening in a small primary school in the south side of...
The Herald_uk (19-May-2009)

Christopher Galley, the mole in Damian Green case, says: Tories dumped me
For more than a year Christopher Galley, a civil servant, had put his job on the line for the man who had become his political mentor, Damian Green, the Shadow Immigration...
The Times (19-May-2009)

Speaker apologises as election calls grow
By Adrian Croft and Keith Weir LONDON (Reuters) - The most senior official in the lower house of parliament apologised to the nation on Monday for an expenses scandal among MPs that has prompted growing calls for an early general...
MSN News UK (18-May-2009)