Monday, 8 March 2010

A selection of recent media reports

A campaigner for Roma gipsies' rights has been charged with helping scores of Romanians illegally claim millions in benefits. 
Daily Mail (08-Mar-2010)

Police are working to establish the identities of two men and a woman who died after falling from a high-rise block of flats in Glasgow. Strathclyde Police said the incident happened shortly before 0845 GMT on Sunday at the Red Road flats complex in the city's Springburn...
BBC News (08-Mar-2010)

TAXPAYERS will be forced to fork out millions more in benefits for EU migrants because of changes in the law. At the moment immigrants from eastern European countries can only claim UK benefits after working here for 12...
Daily Star (08-Mar-2010)

BRITAIN'S benefits bill will increase even more when new rules allow EU claimants from eastern europe to receive handouts after just three months rather than...
Daily Express (08-Mar-2010)

THE Conservative Party's latest high profile supporter has claimed that Britain needs to start being "more selfish" over immigration policy. Tessa Hartmann believes that, as far as the Labour government is concerned, 'enough is enough' Tessa Hartmann, the woman behind Scottish Fashion Week, was...
The Scotsman (08-Mar-2010)

THREE asylum seekers who fell to their deaths from the 15th floor of a Glasgow tower block were facing deportation, neighbours claimed last night. The Red Road flats where the three fell to their deaths The bodies of two men and a woman were discovered at the foot of the Red Road flats yesterday...
The Scotsman (08-Mar-2010)

WITH the general election only weeks away the pressure on the Tories is becoming...
Daily Express (08-Mar-2010)

Commenting on this post, Tim Montgomerie writes: Did you actually read what I wrote Alex? Not once did I call for an end to the new Toryism. I advocated blending new and old...
The Spectator (07-Mar-2010)

Tim Montgomerie says it's "time to stop apologising for being Conservative" and calls for an end to this Red Tory nonsense and, instead, a return to "red-meat Toryism".
The Spectator (07-Mar-2010)