Saturday, 10 October 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Calais migrants still in limbo
Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. Migrants are sleeping rough under bridges in Calais Two weeks ago, the makeshift migrant camp at Calais known as the "jungle" was shut down by French police and 276 people were...
BBC News (09-Oct-2009)

Home Office refute claims of amnesty
The Home Office says reports ministers have quietly relaxed immigration rules to clear a backlog of asylum claims are untrue. They say the only change is in the guidance for case workers The Border and Immigration Minister, Phil Woolas said in a statement, there is NO...
Sunrise Radio (09-Oct-2009)

Dutch Government Brings in Stricter Regulations For Migration On Marriage
The government wants to discourage marriage migration to the Netherlands if the partners prospects are poor. It plans to step up the requirements for marriage migration and...
eGov Monitor (09-Oct-2009)

Migration rules relaxed - Lib Dems
The Government has been accused of "quietly" relaxing immigration rules to help clear a backlog of asylum claims. Ministers changed Home Office guidelines over the summer in a move which could see thousands of claimants being given indefinite leave to remain in the...
IC Essex (09-Oct-2009)

280 officers could go in police cuts
Julie Spence UP to 280 police officers could be axed in Cambridgeshire as the force braces itself for swingeing cuts. Chief Constable Julie Spence yesterday warned pending public sector cuts, which could wipe out 20 per cent of the force budget, would have to be imposed "across the board", meaning frontline.
Cambridge News 2 (09-Oct-2009)

UK cops combating alien crime gangs
Nearly 2,600 drug smugglers, people traffickers and fraudsters have been prosecuted by new joint United Kingdom Border Agency and police teams since April 2008, Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas stated in a report obtained by the National Association of Chiefs of...
New Criminologist (09-Oct-2009)

Ten arrested in immigration raid at veg packers
Comments (0) Have your say ' TEN workers were arrested when immigration officials raided a Bicester food factory. The UK Border Agency and two police officers arrived at Just Prepared, in Bainton Close, off Charbridge Way, at...
The Oxford Times (09-Oct-2009)

MIGRATION RULES RELAXED - LIB DEMS
The Government has been accused of "quietly" relaxing immigration rules to help clear a backlog of asylum claims.
Daily Express (09-Oct-2009)

40,000 asylum seekers could be given permission to stay in UK under new rules
The Government has 'quietly' relaxed immigration rules to help clear a backlog of asylum claims, it emerged last night. Ministers have changed Home Office guidelines in a move which could see 40,000 previously ineligible foreigners being given indefinite leave to remain in the...
Daily Mail (09-Oct-2009)

I'LL MEND BRITAIN
DAVID CAMERON yesterday declared his readiness to become Prime Minister by setting out a soaring vision of a Britain rebuilt by responsibility and family...
Daily Express (09-Oct-2009)

1 IN 4 PEOPLE ON EARTH ARE MUSLIMS
ONE in four people in the world are now Muslim, a report has revealed. Islam has 1.57billion followers and is growing fast, just behind the Christian church which is the most popular faith with...
Daily Star (09-Oct-2009)