Thursday, 15 October 2009

A selection of recent media reports

The BNP on Question Time is the wrong party on the wrong programme
A week today Nick Griffin will go on Question Time and the British National party will be handed a gift. A racist organisation with a fascist pedigree that rightfully belongs under a stone will be awarded a starring role on the BBC's flagship political...
Guardian Unlimited - Comment is Free (15-Oct-2009)

NOW MUSLIMS DEMAND: GIVE US FULL SHARIA LAW
A RADICAL Muslim group sparked outrage last night as it launched a massive campaign to impose sharia law on...
Sunday Express (15-Oct-2009)

Pay to stay
DAVID Cameron is absolutely right to order Tories to pay back dodgy expenses - or face the...
Online Sun (14-Oct-2009)

Cash handouts to young asylum seekers defended
Kent County Council says its policy of giving weekly £25 allowances to teenage asylum seekers helped to teach them "to live independent lives". The cash handouts are given to youngsters aged between 16 and 18 housed in the county's assessment and reception...
Banbury Guardian (14-Oct-2009)

Drug factory 'cleaner' acquitted
A Chinese man found lying on the bedroom floor of a north Belfast house being used as a cannabis factory has been acquitted of drugs...
BBC News Kent (14-Oct-2009)

Suspect dealers targeted in raid
SIX men are due to appear in court tomorrow (Thursday) following a series of dawn raids in a clampdown on drug dealers. Around 430 officers from Brent Police and the Territorial Support Group stormed 15 addresses across Brent during Operation Soto last...
Willesden and Brent Times (14-Oct-2009)

Anti-Islamic Dutch MP Geert Wilders to visit UK within days
The far-right Dutch MP who overturned a United Kingdom travel ban, despite being labelled a threat to community harmony, is planning to visit the capital this...
Times Online (14-Oct-2009)

Changes to the asylum process
The UK Border Agency has announced changes to the way it registers further submissions and initial in-country asylum applications. From 14 October 2009, further submissions - where someone whose appeal rights have been exhausted asks to have their claim re-examined owing to a change in their...
M2 (14-Oct-2009)

Three illegal immigrants were working at restaurant
A RESTAURANT in Looe could be fined £30,000 after staff were found to be working in the UK illegally. Officers from the UK Border Agency went to the Golden Bowl in 2 Buller Street, East Looe, on Thursday after receiving intelligence of illegal...
This is Plymouth (14-Oct-2009)

Illegal immigrants found in camper van
Deborah Minogue and Towfik Osman. A jobless Wolverhampton woman accused of being involved in an international people smuggling operation was caught when customs officers found four illegal immigrants hiding in her camper van, a court...
Express and Star (14-Oct-2009)

Lords EU Committee takes evidence from Minister
Phil Woolas MP, Minister of State at the Home Office, gives evidence on provisions in the Stockholm Programme to the House of Lords EU Sub-Committee on Home Affairs, from...
The United Kingdom Parliament (14-Oct-2009)

Forcing asylum-seekers to return to Iraq is 'inhumane'
Over 40 Iraqi asylum-seekers are to be forcibly returned to Baghdad this week in the first deportations to southern Iraq since the start of the war more than six years...
Belfast Telegraph (14-Oct-2009)

Asylum kids £25 pocket money
TEENAGE asylum seekers are being given £25 a week "pocket money" - to help them learn to use British...
Online Sun (14-Oct-2009)

Cannabis farmer is jailed for three years
A CHINESE man who cultivated cannabis plants worth around £100,000 at a house in Kirkcaldy was jailed for three years at the towns sheriff court...
The Courier (14-Oct-2009)

Far-right Dutch MP Geert Wilders wins appeal against exclusion from UK
Dutch far-right politician Geert Wilders has won an appeal against the government barring him from entry into the UK. Mr Wilders challenged the decision by former home secretary Jacqui Smith which led to him being turned back at London's Heathrow...
Daily Mail (13-Oct-2009)

Baroness Scotland case employers need to mitigate risk
The recent case of Baroness Scotland who was fined £5000 by the UK Border Agency highlights the risks that employers run even if there is no intent to break the...
Personneltoday.com (13-Oct-2009)

Geert Wilders wins appeal against exclusion from UK
Tribunal backs plea by far-right Dutch politician banned by Jacqui...
Guardian.co.uk (13-Oct-2009)

Sale ban on 'fraudsters printer'
A top quality colour printer has been withdrawn from sale after it became a favourite with...
Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (13-Oct-2009)

The EU legislation what the MEPs are facing
The EU policy area broadly known as justice and citizenship covers a series of important areas such as European police and customs cooperation and asylum and immigration...
The Gov Monitor in London (13-Oct-2009)

Asylum children health concerns
A study of the children of asylum seekers at a centre in Bedfordshire has found detaining them can cause depression and...
BBC News Beds, Bucks & Herts (13-Oct-2009)