Monday, 12 October 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Revealed: courts let dangerous foreign criminals stay in Britain
Dangerous foreign criminals are beating the Home Office to remain in the UK at the end of their prison sentences, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. 
Daily Telegraph (11-Oct-2009)

48 held after fights at far right demo
POLICE arrested 48 men during skirmishes between a far-right group and opponents in the northern English city of Manchester on Saturday. Supporters of the English Defence League (EDL), a new group which stages street protests against what it terms "radical Islam", clashed with anti-racism campaigners from...
News.Scotsman.com (11-Oct-2009)

New law watchdog probes Baroness Scotland over illegal cleaner
Attorney General Baroness Scotland is to be investigated by legal chiefs over employing an illegal immigrant as her housekeeper. The Bar Standards Board, the barristers watchdog, will launch a formal inquiry after receiving complaints that she has brought the profession into...
Daily Mail (11-Oct-2009)