A selection of recent media reports
Saturday, 11 July 2009
01. Government breaks link between migration and settlement 02. All private sector jobs created under Labour have gone to foreign workers 03. Unemployment hitting British born workers harder than those born overseas 04. Four million new households by 2021: one will be formed every 2 minutes 05. 92 per cent of immigration has been to England 06. Poll shows voters in EU elections cared more about immigration than NHS and crime
Balanced Migration (10-Jul-2009)
THE Government is pumping almost £1 million into helping communities in Staffordshire cope with the impact of immigration. The two-year funding package, which was announced yesterday, is worth £550,000 to Staffordshire, £166,000 for Stoke-on-Trent, £150,000 for East Staffordshire and £75,000 for Stafford...
The Sentinel (10-Jul-2009)
A CANNABIS haul worth an estimated £125,000 has been seized from a house near Louth. A total of 377 cannabis plants and equipment were found on Wednesday morning at a detached rented house in Station Road, Legbourne.
This Is Grimsby - Grimsby Telegraph (10-Jul-2009)
A £1.2million council house occupied by an Afghan family and paid for by the taxpayer was raided by customs officials yesterday.
Daily Mail (10-Jul-2009)
11:06:00 GMT Written by: Katie Nguyen File picture of a young girl sitting in front of her sleeping mother with other refugees in a church in Johannesburg in August, 2007.
Reuters Foundation (10-Jul-2009)
The Methodist Church has passed a motion at its annual Conference banning members from joining the BNP. The motion bars members of the Methodist Church from joining any political party whose constitution, aims or objectives promote racism, but especially the far-right BNP.
Christian Today (10-Jul-2009)
PLYMOUTH is to get nearly £500,000 to help ease pressure on public services in the city caused by immigration. The £468,000, raised from a levy on migrants themselves, will be used for a range of projects including promoting GP registration, to relieve the demands on emergency services and A&E.
This is Plymouth (10-Jul-2009)
Nearly 150,000 asylum seekers will stay in Britain because staff cannot handle the paperwork. The Home Office faces a huge backlog of 450,000 claims. But more than 144,000 immigrants will be free to stay on human rights grounds because they have now set up families here.
Daily Star (10-Jul-2009)
in parts of England are becoming increasingly segregated, deserted by white parents if they find their children becoming outnumbered by pupils from ethnic minorities, a report by a thinktank set up to promote community cohesion has warned.
Guardian.co.uk (10-Jul-2009)
AT least 144,000 asylum seekers are to be allowed to remain in Britain in a desperate attempt to reduce a massive backlog of applications, figures revealed yesterday.
Sunday Express (10-Jul-2009)
A NEW levy on immigrants arriving in Britain will be used to fund multilingual teachers in schools and to encourage foreigners to register with doctors.
Sunday Express (10-Jul-2009)
They were promised a decent living, but the reality has been very different.
The Independent (10-Jul-2009)
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