Monday, 15 February 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Immigration: a plan to alter the nation's soul
The government's policy of mass immigration was intended to remodel the social fabric of the nation, says Janet Daley
Daily Telegraph (14-Feb-2010)

Immigrants riot in Milan after Egyptian killed
MILAN (Reuters) - Dozens of immigrants from North Africa rioted during the night in a multi-ethnic neighbourhood in Milan, smashing shop windows, overturning cars to protest at the knifing death of an Egyptian, Italian police said on...
Reuters UK (14-Feb-2010)

Gurkhas turn to loan sharks to pay for UK visas
KENT NEWS: The victory in the campaign for Gurkha settlement rights has been dealt a bitter blow as retired soldiers in Nepal take desperate measures to pay their visa...
Kent News (14-Feb-2010)

THUG ALMOST KILLED ME BUT COURT LET HIM FLEE TO ROMANIA
OLD soldier Don Southerd had faith in the British legal system until the Rom anian immigrant who battered him to the brink of death walked out of a courtroom and out of the...
Sunday Express (14-Feb-2010)

PETER HITCHENS: Commander Dizaei has had his day... so have 40 years of argument by smear
Its time to stop cringeing to the bigoted anti-racists. Most of them are actually anti-Britishists, hiding their loathing of this country behind a facade of liberal piety, a facade that is sometimes very thin...
Daily Mail (13-Feb-2010)

Kingsbury butcher facing immigration charges
A BUTCHER from Kingsbury is facing accusations he intentionally employed three illegal immigrants. Talhat Rehman, 51, has been charged by the UK Border Agency with three counts of knowingly employing illegal...
Harrow Times (13-Feb-2010)

WITH LEGAL Number who say they are 'white British' in decline
White Britons are the only part of the population to have declined in the last decade after a third of a million left the...
Telegraph.co.uk (13-Feb-2010)

Investigating Sutton's cannabis factory industry
Police were finding one large factory a month in the borough until September 2009, when the rate almost trebled and another 10 were discovered in the final...
Guardian Sutton (13-Feb-2010)

Lesbos villa called Freedom where migrants wait in search for haven
Many of the children take shelter in Lesbos. Belongings litter the route as immigrants rush to avoid capture. Children used to be held at the Pagani centre,...
Times Online (13-Feb-2010)

The beautiful ghost of big government
On both the left and the right, voters say they feel powerless. And in many ways they...
Guardian.co.uk (13-Feb-2010)

Immigrants detained illegally receive £2m in compensation
IMMIGRANTS detained illegally have been handed millions of pounds in compensation by the...
Yorkshire Post (12-Feb-2010)

Immigrant jailed over drug farm
AN illegal immigrant who tended plants at a £95,000 cannabis farm has been...
The Shields Gazette (12-Feb-2010)

Nelson man conspired to traffic people out of UK
A MAN has appeared in court accused of being part of a plot to traffic people out of the country. Ghulam Abbas, 39, of Nelson, was arrested as part of an operation to stop the illegal trafficking of people through the UK and French...
Burnley Citizen (12-Feb-2010)

Man arrested after cannabis factory raid
A SUSPECTED illegal immigrant was arrested this morning after police uncovered a cannabis factory at a house in Crewkerne. Between 200 and 300 cannabis plants were seized during a raid on a property in Hermitage Street at...
Chard & Ilminster News (12-Feb-2010)

£2 million in compensation to immigrants held illegally
ILLEGALLY detained immigrants received more than £2 million in compensation from the government, new figures reveal. Law firms said the money was paid to 121 individuals an average of more than £16,000 each but the survey only covered a handful of law firms, suggesting the real total could be much...
The Scotsman (12-Feb-2010)

Fined twice for employing illegal workers
A Tiverton restaurant has been fined GBP17,500 for employing illegal workers, only months after being fined GBP15,000 for the same offence. Our officers visited the Golden Panda, 18 Newport Street, on 20 October 2009 after receiving intelligence that illegal workers were employed...
M2 (12-Feb-2010)

Government decision forces Croydon Council to reassess budget plans
By Ian Austen ian.austen@essnmedia.co.uk Setting next year's council tax rise has been thrown into turmoil as finance chiefs continue to grapple with outside pressures on the...
ThisisCroydonToday.co.uk (12-Feb-2010)

ASYLUM SEEKERS GET MILLIONS IN COMPENSATION
ASYLUM seekers wrongfully locked up in detention centres have been paid millions of pounds in compensation, it was revealed...
Daily Express (12-Feb-2010)

OUTRAGE AT £11M TRANSLATION BILL
TRANSLATING council documents into as many as 120 languages is being offered by town halls across Britain as a result of mass immigration under Labour, figures revealed last...
Daily Express (12-Feb-2010)

MIGRANTS WIN £2M
MIGRANTS wrongfully detained by officials at Britain s airports and ports have won millions in compensation, it was revealed yesterday. Figures uncovered by the BBC show payouts of more than £2million over the past three years to 121 individuals an average of £16,000...
Daily Star (12-Feb-2010)