Thursday, 3 December 2009

A selection of recent media reports

Pair who trafficked 2,000 people to be extradited
Two masterminds of a major people-smuggling ring were today being extradited from Britain. Jambaz Ahmadzai, from Afghanistan, and Hajhar Farhan, from Iran, are accused of helping to smuggle 2,000 people into the UK and...
Evening Standard (03-Dec-2009)

Bin Laden's son fails to get marriage visa
The son of al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden has been banned from coming to Britain to marry his 54-year-old English...
Evening Standard (03-Dec-2009)

Illegal workers found at Chinese restaurant
OFFICERS targeting illegal working at a restaurant in Bideford found that every member of staff on duty was an immigration offender. UK Border Agency officers went to the Honeymoon restaurant in Bridgeland Street at about...
This is Plymouth (03-Dec-2009)

Overseas students consider legal action against college
It is a trail that leads from meetings with immigration agents in rented hotel rooms across the Indian sub-continent to a college campus on a business park on the eastern outskirts of...
Herald Scotland (03-Dec-2009)

Poverty in Britain is at a nine year high, says Joseph Rowntree Foundation report
The gap between rich and poor is at its highest for nearly 10 years, a report says...
Telegraph.co.uk (03-Dec-2009)

Pace of change sparking immigration fears
THE WAY and speed in which immigration is changing Evesham is concerning residents not the immigrants themselves a study has found. Both immigrants and those born and bred in the Vale or the UK respect each other, share common values and there is little evidence of racism or prejudice according to the.
The Evesham Observer (03-Dec-2009)

Two deported after Summertown restaurant raids
TWO Brazilian men arrested last week after immigration officers raided two North Oxford restaurants have been removed from the UK. UK Border Agency officers targeted Mamma Mia Pizzeria and Portabello Restaurant, in South Parade, Summertown, in an operation to target illegal workers last...
Oxford Mail (02-Dec-2009)

£12,500 award for Dane who stabbed off-duty bouncer
A Danish man who stabbed an off-duty bouncer at a nightclub has been awarded £12,500 because he was detained for two weeks after his prison term...
BBC News Northamptonshire (02-Dec-2009)

Illegal workers found at Hemsby Chinese takeaway
Two illegal workers who were found in raid at a Chinese takeaway in Hemsby, near Great Yarmouth, are due to be deported from tomorrow The two men - a 49-year-old Malaysian and a 38-year-old Chinese man - were discovered in the Hong Kong Chinese Takeaway in Kingsway on Thursday, November...
Norwich Evening News 24 (02-Dec-2009)

Drug boss loses bid against jail time
THE manager of a multi-million pound Vietnamese cannabis growing operation has failed in his bid to overturn his nine-year prison sentence at the Court of...
Echo (02-Dec-2009)

World's first climate change refugees appeal for funds to flee Papua islands
The world's first 'climate change refugees' are appealing for funds and practical to enable them to flee their submerging islands in east Papua New Guinea, and are hoping decisions made by leaders at the forthcoming climate change negotiations in Copenhagen next week will offer them...
Environment times (02-Dec-2009)

Copenhagen summit is last chance to save the planet, Lord Stern
Without an international agreement to limit global warming, temperatures are likely to rise by 9F (5C) by the end of the century - triggering mass migration, warfare and world hunger, according to the report. 
Timesonline (02-Dec-2009)

£70K CHEAT'S DOUBLE LIFE
A MIGRANT mother who milked £70,000 of taxpayers money in a double scam to fund a luxury life in England and Dubai escaped jail...
Daily Express (02-Dec-2009)

EX-MINISTER ATTACKS LABOUR OVER SOARING IMMIGRATION
A LEADING Labour MP has launched a devastating attack on his own partys failure to admit voters are right to be worried about soaring immigration.
Daily Express (02-Dec-2009)

Middle classes benefit from immigration, says John Denham
Middle-class people fail to understand the impact of immigration on poorer workers because they are insulated from competition for jobs, housing and public services, the Communities Secretary said last...
Times Online (01-Dec-2009)

Dutch mother posed as penniless Somalian immigrant to claim £70,000 benefits
A mother who claimed asylum under a bogus identity in order to conduct a £70,000 benefits fraud has been told she would have been sent to prison if it weren't for her five...
Daily Mail (01-Dec-2009)

Island introduces points based system for immigration
THE Isle of Man Immigration Office has today introduced the first stage of a new Points Based system for managing the immigration to the Island of foreign nationals from outside the European Economic Area for employment...
Gov.im (01-Dec-2009)

Judges rule against government over secret evidence in terror cases
High court judgment says suspects cannot be detained without being able to answer charges made against...
Guardian.co.uk (01-Dec-2009)

European Commission Welcomes The Treaty Of Lisbon Which Comes Into Force From Today
The Treaty of Lisbon enters into force today 1 December 2009. The occasion will be marked by a ceremony in the City of Lisbon organised jointly by the Portuguese Government, the Swedish Presidency and the European...
eGov Monitor (01-Dec-2009)

UK Has Reached A Defining Moment In The Battle Against Racism Says TUC
TUC Deputy General Secretary Frances O' Grady told a TUC conference yesterday that ten years after the publication of the Macpherson Report into the death of Stephen Lawrence, the UK has reached a defining moment in the battle against...
eGov Monitor (01-Dec-2009)