Wednesday, 21 October 2009

A selection of recent media reports

UK population to rise at fastest rate since 1960s
The population of the United Kingdom is projected to rise at its fastest rate since the 1960s baby boom, according to official figures published today. 
Timesonline (21-Oct-2009)

Recession makes Britain less attractive to East European workers
The biggest wave of immigration in British history slowed last year as the recession made the country much less attractive to tens of thousands of East Europeans
Timesonline (21-Oct-2009)

OFFICIAL: IMMIGRATION TO ADD 7 MILLION TO UKS POPULATION IN NEXT 25 YEARS
Population to hit 70 million in 2029 and then keep on growing Immigration to add 1 million to population in next Parliament 
Balanced Migration (21-Oct-2009)

Migration will take population to 72m by 2033
The population of the UK will rise to nearly 72million within 24 years, government statisticians said today. The Office for National Statistics forecasts that there will be 10million more people by 2033 with most of the extra residents expected to live in...
Evening Standard (21-Oct-2009)

BRITAIN'S POPULATION TO SWELL TO 70M WITHIN 10 YEARS
THE population of the UK is set to increase at its fastest rate in at least a century - growing 4.3 million in the next 10...
Daily Express (21-Oct-2009)

Population figures show Labour's failure to control immigration
Shadow Immigration Minister Damian Green has responded to figures which reveal that the population could increase by over 4 million to 65.
Conservatives (21-Oct-2009)

POPULATION 'TO HIT 70M BY 2029'
The population of the UK is set to increase at its fastest rate in at least a century, it has been disclosed. In just 24 years it will increase by 10 million - and hit 70 million in 2029, the Office for National Statistics (ONS)...
Daily Star (21-Oct-2009)

Population 'to hit 70m by 2029'
The population of the UK is set to increase at its fastest rate in at least a century, it has been disclosed.
Daily Mirror (21-Oct-2009)

Britain's population to hit 70 million by 2029
The population of Britain is set to increase at its fastest rate in at least a century, driven by an immigrant 'baby boom'
Daily Telegraph (21-Oct-2009)

UK population 'to rise to 71.6m' 
The population of the UK is expected to increase from 61m to 71.6m by 2033, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). 
BBC (21-Oct-2009)

Immigration to drive up Britain's population to 70 million within 20 years
Immigration will account for two thirds of population growth in the UK over the next quarter of a century, according to official figures released today. 
Daily Mail (21-Oct-2009)

UK's population to hit 70m by 2029
The population of the UK is set to increase at its fastest rate in at least a century, it was disclosed today. In just 24 years it will increase by 10 million - and hit 70 million in 2029, the Office for National Statistics...
Metro (21-Oct-2009)

Migrants add to huge pop rise
THE population of the UK is set to explode at its fastest rate in more than a century with TWO THIRDS of the massive boom expected to be immigrant...
Online Sun (21-Oct-2009)

British-chartered plane takes Afghan migrants home
Flight takes off from Paris as joint immigration crackdown prompts anger in...
Guardian.co.uk (21-Oct-2009)

'No record' of 40,000 immigrants 
Sir Andrew Green, chairman of Migrationwatch UK, said it was "yet another skeleton in the Home Office cupboard". He added: "Tens of thousands of case files lying around and the true situation covered up for years on end. This is symptomatic of the utter chaos in the asylum and immigration system during the past 10 years. 
BBC News Channel (21-Oct-2009)

Politicians' fury as Croydon made asylum seeker capital of UK
The shock decision to make every walk-in asylum seeker entering the UK come to Croydon has been met with fury by politicians throughout the borough over the past...
Croydon Guardian (21-Oct-2009)

Beeb right to let Griffin on air?
THE BBC'S controversial plans to invite the BNP as guests on Question Time continue to cause a...
Online Sun (21-Oct-2009)

Home Office has lost track of 40,000 rejected migrants
The Home Office has lost track of tens of thousands of migrants who were refused extensions to their visas more than six years ago, it emerged...
Times Online (21-Oct-2009)

Anglo-French charter flight packed with illegal Afghan immigrants is grounded following last minute legal bid
An Anglo-French charter flight due to return dozens of illegal Afghan migrants to their homeland was last night cancelled following 11th hour legal...
Daily Mail (21-Oct-2009)

Forces fight BNP hate merchants
A BLACK hero of the SAS is to be honoured with a statue - in a stinging rebuke to the racists of the British National...
Online Sun (21-Oct-2009)