Wednesday, 24 March 2010

A selection of recent media reports

A new centre for tackling illegal immigration into Britain opened in Calais yesterday. The Anglo-French co-ordination centre - comprising high-tech surveillance equipment and intelligence sharing - will is part of a drive that will cost UK taxpayers an estimated...
The Mail On Sunday (24-Mar-2010)

The Conservative MP for Kettering, whose constituency includes villages such as Brixworth and Moulton, faced a police investigation after he dubbed the burka "the religious equivalent of going around with a paper bag over your head with two holes forADVERTISEMENT the eyes".
Northampton Chronicle and Echo (24-Mar-2010)

Angry anglers today condemned immigrants for the 'rape and pillage' of a city's river as they prey on fish and swans for food. 
Daily Mail (23-Mar-2010)

The latest weapon in the fight against illegal migration through Calais was officially opened today by Border and Immigration Minister Phil Woolas and Eric Besson French Minister for Immigration.
eGov Monitor (23-Mar-2010)

THE impact of Britain s open-border policy on immigration was laid bare yesterday when it emerged how Romanian squatters moved into a man s home while he was at work and attempted to claim it as their...
Daily Express (23-Mar-2010)

A senior group of MPs condemned Britain's top civil servant today for 'hyperbole' and bad judgment over the Home Office leaks row. The cross-party Committee on the Issue of Privilege said Sir Gus O'Donnell had been wrong to suggest the leaked material damaged national...
Daily Mail (22-Mar-2010)

Changing Britain: Two days before a budget that will be the opening shot of this year's general election campaign, Jon Snow visits Hull to assess what impact the recession has had on...
Channel 4 News (22-Mar-2010)

By Norma Beavers GPs may soon treat fewer foreign nationals who are visitors to the UK and the NHS could make financial savings if proposals for preventing "health tourism" get the go-ahead. The Department of Health has just launched a consultation to revise its policy and is seeking responses to its...
Primary Care Today (22-Mar-2010)