Monday, 30 November 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Taxpayer funds family's £1,600-a-week rent
A FAMILY of former asylum seekers is living in a £1.8m central London home at a cost to the taxpayer of £1,600 a week, despite a pledge by ministers to crack down on housing benefit payments.
Timesonline (29-Nov-2009)

Swiss voters back ban on minarets
Switzerland voted to ban the construction of new minarets on Sunday, a surprise result certain to embarrass the neutral government and which the justice minister said could affect Swiss exports and...
Yahoo Uk And Ireland News (29-Nov-2009)

BNP leader Nick Griffin to attend Copenhagen summit for EU
Nick Griffin has won a publicity coup by securing a place to represent the European Parliament at the Copenhagen climate summit but will have no influence on the negotiations, MEPs said...
Times Online (29-Nov-2009)

Swiss voters 'back ban on building of minarets'
Swiss voters appear to have defied their Government and churches today and approved a national ban on the construction of minarets. Early results showed that 57 per cent of voters had backed the proposal, ensuring international embarrassment for Switzerland and a possible backlash in the Muslim...
Times Online (29-Nov-2009)

Desperate foreign students seek charity
Hundreds of destitute Indian students have finished another free lunch at a Sikh temple in Southall, west London. It's not the dream of England they were...
BBC Health (29-Nov-2009)

LABOUR HAS CONDEMNED CHILDREN TO MEDIOCRITY
THE schools watchdog Ofsted issued a damning annual report this week, stating that one in three schools is failing to provide adequate teaching. More than two million children are being taught in schools that just aren t good enough, with many pupils leaving school at 16 lacking basic skills in reading,...
Daily Express (29-Nov-2009)

Baroness Scotland's maid facing immigration trial tells peer: See you in court
Attorney General Baroness Scotland could be ordered to appear in court if her former housekeeper stands trial on fraud and immigration offences next...
Daily Mail (29-Nov-2009)

Home truths
WE are in a deep recession. Public services struggle to manage. A generation of young people is desperate for jobs. Yet Labour STILL won't get a grip on immigration.
Online Sun (28-Nov-2009)