A selection of recent media reports
Wednesday, 24 February 2010
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BBC News; Isle of Man (24-Feb-2010)
Three directors of a Sheffield education centre who sat citizenship exams for immigrants in exchange for cash have been...
BBC (24-Feb-2010)
Immigration Minister Phil Woolas has praised the police and the UK Border Agency after five Sheffield men were jailed for taking citizenship exams for immigrants in exchange for...
Sheffield Telegraph (24-Feb-2010)
A GREATER Manchester police operation saw 26 people in Oldham arrested in connection with assault and drugs offences. Homes were raided as part of Fridays Operation Portcullis, a 24-hour scheme by Greater Manchester Police aimed at tracking down criminals suspected of drink-fuelled...
Oldham Evening Chronicle (24-Feb-2010)
Our officers based in Calais have foiled an attempt by seven stowaways to enter the UK by hiding in a lorry load of stainless steel heading for South...
M2 (24-Feb-2010)
Six people have been arrested by police and immigration officials on suspicion of being involved in "sham"...
BBC News Liverpool (24-Feb-2010)
Of all the issues of concern to the public, immigration is possibly the most explosive - and the one about which the most lies are continuing to be told.
Daily Mail (24-Feb-2010)
A SOMALI woman must be given a council house in Harrow despite having no means to support herself and her four children. In a landmark judgment by the European Union Courts of Justice, Nimco Hassan Ibrahim was given the right to UK benefits despite being acknowledged as a burden on the social assistance...
Harrow Times (24-Feb-2010)
Some foreign national prisoners are being held in jail, including in Dorchester, for several years awaiting deportation, it has been revealed. Dame Anne Owers, the chief inspector of prisons, criticised "slow progress" on immigration cases of foreign criminals who have finished their...
The Independent (24-Feb-2010)
THE UK Independence Party last night put defence spending, immigration and welfare among its top priorities, after launching its parliamentary campaign in...
This is Plymouth (24-Feb-2010)
Two illegal workers were found and removed from a restaurant in Barnsley on Monday 8 February as part of a South Yorkshire wide crackdown on rogue...
M2 (24-Feb-2010)
A quarter of prisoners in a Dorset jail are foreign nationals who despite completing their sentences have yet to be deported, a report has...
BBC News Hampshire (24-Feb-2010)
BBC News Jails in England and Wales could become more unstable because of budget cuts and a rising population, the chief inspector of prisons has...
BBC News (24-Feb-2010)
MEDDLING EU judges sparked outrage last night after giving scrounging foreigners the green light to sponge thousands of pounds from British...
Daily Express (24-Feb-2010)
FRANCES national railway has been accused of racism after an official poster warned passengers to be on the look-out for...
Sunday Express (24-Feb-2010)
FOREIGN prisoners are being kept in British jails for years after the end of their sentences because of chaos in the deportation system, a scathing report revealed...
Sunday Express (24-Feb-2010)
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Online Sun (23-Feb-2010)
THE latest disclosure of official Whitehall documents about immigration confirms that the Government knew the British people wanted tighter border controls, but secretly decided to deliver the...
Daily Express (23-Feb-2010)
Ministers were accused today of pursuing plans for sharp increases in migration despite knowing the public wanted tighter restrictions.
24dash.com (23-Feb-2010)
Immigration minister Phil Woolas has denied the Labour government attempted to deliberately cover-up a mass immigration policy.
Politics.co.uk (23-Feb-2010)
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