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A selection of recent media reports

Student visa numbers soar after new rules take effect
Donal MacIntyre show, BBC Radio 5 live Please turn on JavaScript. Media requires JavaScript to play. One immigration officer filmed lengthy immigration queues at Heathrow The number of students entering the UK from India and Bangladesh has risen sharply since a new visa system began, the BBC.
BBC News (22-Nov-2009)

That Queens speech in full . . . plus a truthful translation
As usual, the Queens speech was greeted with politically motivated derision by the opposition parties, who claimed that it was nothing more than a list of vague and unattainable aspirations that the government would not have time even to get started on before being voted out of office next...
Times Online (22-Nov-2009)

Storm as deported baby killer vanishes in Malaysia
Britain has triggered a diplomatic storm by secretly returning child killer Agnes Wong to Malaysia without warning her home country's police or...
Daily Mail (21-Nov-2009)

PAPA SMURF AND BUGS TURN BRITAIN ANTI-EU
A FEW weeks ago I popped into the headquarters of the taxpayers Alliance to catch up with the leaders of that excellent campaigning organisation. Along with Sir Andrew Green s Migration Watch, the TPA has done more than any other organisation (including the Conservative Party) to expose the...
Daily Express (21-Nov-2009)

BRITISH PEOPLE THINK IMMIGRATION IS OUT OF CONTROL
A STAGGERING number of Brits reckon immigration has spiralled out of control. Yesterday we revealed that experts predict Britain s population will spiral to 74million by...
Daily Star (21-Nov-2009)

IMMIGRANTS RUN UP £25M POLICE BILL FOR TRANSLATORS
POLICE are having to spend £25million a year on translators as a result of Labour s open door on immigration.
Daily Express (21-Nov-2009)

Ordeal of girl whose mother 'only knew the African way' of discipline
A girl of 12 kept a diary of the mental and physical torture she suffered at the hands of her mother, who believed in the 'African way', a court heard...
Daily Mail (21-Nov-2009)

'This isn't the Britain we fought for,' say the 'unknown warriors' of WWII
Sarah Robinson was just a teenager when World War II broke out. She endured the Blitz, watching for fires during Luftwaffe air raids armed with a bucket of...
Daily Mail (20-Nov-2009)