Tuesday, 15 June 2010

A selection of recent media reports

5,900 AFGHAN CHILDREN GET INTO EU
The UN has revealed that more than 5,900 Afghan children were smuggled into Europe last...
Daily Express (14-Jun-2010)

Increase in immigrants recorded for small towns
Towns in Somerset have been named on a list of figures recording the increasing number of Eastern Europeans attracted to rural settings.
Western Daily Press (14-Jun-2010)

UK public 'still holds negative attitudes towards asylum seekers' - survey
UK public 'still holds negative attitudes towards asylum seekers' - survey One in four British people still believe asylum seekers come to Britain to claim benefits, according an ICM poll for the British Red...
24Dash.com (14-Jun-2010)

REVEALED: The 'couples' who walked down the aisle in a brazen bid to remain in the UK
Here is a full list of the couples exposed during the Chron investigation into sham...
Northampton Chronicle and Echo (14-Jun-2010)

SPECIAL REPORT: In sickness and in stealth...the sham marriages making a mockery of our wedding system to bypass immigra..
Criminal gangs preying on illegal immigrants have targeted Northampton in a series of sham marriages intended to bypass immigration...
Northampton Chronicle and Echo (14-Jun-2010)

Refugees: Britons are friendly, polite and football-mad
Asylum seekers find most British people polite, welcoming and obsessed with football, according to a survey out today. And the best things about living in the UK are not only the friendly locals and our national sport, but also British TV, the poll...
Evening Standard (14-Jun-2010)

Tougher stance on immigration could have 'changed result of election', research shows
Thousand more voters could have switched to the Tories, potentially changing the result of the election, if the party had adopted a tougher stance on immigration, according to a...
Telegraph.co.uk (14-Jun-2010)

25% think asylum seekers after cash
One in four Scots believe asylum seekers come to Britain to claim benefits, a new poll said. The ICM poll showed although 96% of the people questioned in Scotland were correct with their definition of an asylum seeker, 25% thought they were someone who was in the UK to claim state...
Business.scotsman.com (14-Jun-2010)

RURAL TOWNS SEE HUGE INFLUX OF IMMIGRANTS
ENGLANDS genteel rural towns and villages are facing a surge of eastern European immigrants arriving in record numbers, new figures have...
Scottish Daily Express (14-Jun-2010)

MUM OF FIVE FACES DEPORTATION OVER £120K BENEFIT SCAM
A PROLIFIC benefits cheat who lived a life of luxury after stealing £120,000 from taxpayers was facing deportation last...
Scottish Daily Express (14-Jun-2010)