Friday, 22 January 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Ed Balls accused of wooing the anti-immigrant vote
Ed Balls has been accused of wooing the anti-immigrant vote in his new constituency as he fights to remain an MP in the face of a resurgent Conservative Party and one of the highest BNP memberships in the...
Times Online (22-Jan-2010)

MP calls for trafficking watchdog
Conservative MP Anthony Steen has called for the establishment of a national human trafficking watchdog, to strengthen the UK's anti-trafficking...
ePolitix.com (21-Jan-2010)

Migrant visa fees to treble
MIGRANTS who wish to bring dependent elderly relatives into the UK face a trebling of visa fees. The move reflects fears over the cost on social and health services of foreign nationals parents and grandparents who cannot look after...
Liverpool Daily Post (21-Jan-2010)

Austrian far right plans for victory in Vienna
Viewpoint Thursday January 21st 2010 Le Monde's Joƫlle Stolz attends a gathering of the Austrian Freedom party and finds, amid 4,000 flag-waving supporters, a party that is consolidating its position under leader Heinz-Christian Strache Comment on this article "We want...
Guardian Weekly (21-Jan-2010)

£217,00 cannabis bust - EXCLUSIVE VIDEO
POLICE have stopped a major cannabis cultivation network flooding the streets of South Yorkshire with drugs busting two factories and arresting eight Chinese...
Sheffield Telegraph (21-Jan-2010)

£2.6M STASHED UNDER THE BED
A raid on a Rotherhithe flat as part of an operation against an immigration scam led police to over £2.6 million in cash, stashed under a...
Southwark News (21-Jan-2010)

Restaurant faces fine over illegal workers
AN Indian restaurant in Cleethorpes faces a £20,000 fine after immigration officers discovered two men working there illegally. An intelligence led operation by UK Border Agency discovered two Bangladeshi men, aged 26 and 29, working at the Sonargaon Tandoori Restaurant, in the Market Place, without..
This Is Grimsby (21-Jan-2010)

CLAMP ON NHS CHEAT MIGRANTS
A MAJOR crackdown has been launched on migrants milking free treatment from the NHS. Hospitals and care homes fork out huge sums on relatives of foreigners living in...
Daily Star (21-Jan-2010)