Friday, 16 October 2009

A selection of recent media reports

MCB condemns rally calling for Sharia Law in Britain
The Muslim Council of Britain has condemned plans by an extremist group to rally in London to call for Sharia Law in Britain. Islam4UK has outlined plans on their website to call for an upheaval of the legal system by marching from the House of Commons to Downing Street on 31st...
Sunrise Radio (15-Oct-2009)

Croydon to become the asylum seeker capital of the country
Croydon could become the asylum seeker capital of the country, after the Government made a shock decision to close the only other walk-in asylum centre in the country...
Croydon Guardian (15-Oct-2009)

'The white working class' aren't racists
John Denham's initiative uses a loaded phrase and deflects attention from the real schism in Britain between rich and...
Guardian Unlimited - Comment is Free (15-Oct-2009)

BNP to consider admitting non-whites
The far-right British National Party (BNP) agreed on Thursday to ask its members to amend its constitution to allow non-whites to join, in a bid to fend off court action from equality...
Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (15-Oct-2009)

1m private-sector jobs lost in just 15 months but public sector still manages to expand by 300,000
Nearly a million jobs in private industry and commerce have been lost in just 15 months, the latest unemployment figures showed yesterday. 
Daily Mail (15-Oct-2009)

Expose the BNP for what they are
IN a weeks time Ill be appearing on the BBCs Question Time. Nothing unusual about that. It goes with the job, as it does for the Conservative and Lib Dem representatives wholl be taking...
Lancashire Telegraph (15-Oct-2009)

Traditional English concerns targeted
WHITE and working-class communities in Stoke-on-Trent will receive Government cash to help them cope with changing times and the recession. The Government fears "traditional" English communities feel ignored by society and excluded from...
The Sentinel (15-Oct-2009)

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)

'WE DEMAND SHARIA LAW FOR UK'
A RADICAL Muslim group sparked outrage last night by declaring they would change the face of Britain under Sharia law. The fanatical Islam4UK will meet with police to discuss plans for a rally in London later to call for a complete upheaval of the British legal...
Daily Star (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)