Saturday, 19 June 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Navy wren jailed for smuggling £2m of cocaine on warship
A Royal Navy wren who came to Britain as an asylum seeker was jailed for seven-and-a-half years today for smuggling £2 million worth of cocaine into the UK on board a...
The Independent (18-Jun-2010)

Alex Salmond press complaint rejected
Media watchdog rejects complaint about 'inaccurate and misleading'...
Stv.tv (18-Jun-2010)

Illegal immigrant who bought fake passport avoids jail so he can get NHS treatment
An illegal immigrant who bought a fake passport so he could stay in Britain has been spared jail so he can receive NHS...
This is Plymouth (18-Jun-2010)

Clarke defends migrant charity collapse
A charity providing legal assistance to migrants and refugees which has entered administration was "unable to manage its affairs", the government has...
ePolitix.com (18-Jun-2010)

ASYLUM SEEKERS SLEEP ROUGH ON THE STREETS OF LEICESTER, ACCORDING TO NEW REPORT
ASYLUM SEEKERS are still sleeping on the streets, sofa-surfing and living hand-to-mouth, according to the fifth annual report on destitution in...
Refugee Action (18-Jun-2010)

Sham marriage gang smashed
SEVEN members of an international sham marriage ring are each facing up to seven years in jail after they admitted being part of a plot to assist illegal immigration.
The Bolton News (18-Jun-2010)

LABOUR'S CLONES HAVE CHANGED THEIR TUNE NOW
AS THE four clones now seeking the Labour leadership waffle on, their primary concern seems to be to distance themselves as far as they can from the very regime they served and were leading members of before May...
Daily Express (18-Jun-2010)

UK border officials 'beat deported Iraqis'
Iraqi asylum seekers deported from the UK have said that they were beaten by UK Border Agency (UKBA) personnel to get them on and off the...
UK Wired News (18-Jun-2010)

Nobel Laureate Gary Becker says immigrants should pay
Professor Gary Becker, a Nobel prize-winning economist, will argue on Thursday that immigrants should pay for the right to settle in Britain and the United States. 
The Daily Telegraph (17-Jun-2010)

Ken Clarke defends collapse of major migration law firm
Justice Secretary Ken Clarke has defended a decision not to prevent the collapse of the UK's largest immigration law...
UK Wired News (17-Jun-2010)

Mystery over rumours of a right-wing protest in Wembley
According to anti-fascism campaigners, the English Defence League (EDL) are planning to demonstrate outside Wembley Arena while a peace conference organised by Al-Khair Foundation, a Muslim charity, takes...
Wembley and Kingsbury Times (17-Jun-2010)

Diane Abbott: 'It's very lonely being a single mother'
Diane Abbott, in her first interview since announcing that she is standing for the Labour leadership, talks about life as a single mother and why she is determined to...
Telegraph.co.uk (16-Jun-2010)

Bride given dress in St Leonards 'marriage scam'
A woman was paid £2,000 and given a wedding dress for her wedding to an African man as part of an immigration scam run by a vicar, a jury has...
UK Wired News (16-Jun-2010)

Lithuanian woman 'given £2,000 moments before sham marriage'
A Lithuanian woman had her wedding dress bought for her the day before she married an African man she barely knew as part of an alleged sham marriage racket, a court heard...
The Independent (16-Jun-2010)

Twelve 'illegal immigrants' arrested
Twelve people have been arrested following a swoop on a scrap metal yard in Kent, police have said. Officers from Kent Police working with the UK Border Agency (UKBA) executed a warrant at A2 Car Breakers in Watling Street in Dartford at 11am on...
Rye & Battle Observer (16-Jun-2010)

2014 Games may lure trafficked prostitutes, MSPs are warned
THE Commonwealth Games could prove a magnet for human traffickers smuggling women into Scotland to work as prostitutes, MSPs have been...
The Scotsman (16-Jun-2010)

MUSLIM EXTREMISTS PROTEST AT SOLDIERS' HOMECOMING PARADE
MUSLIM extremists provoked outrage yesterday when they branded British troops murderers at a homecoming parade attended by relatives of soldiers killed in...
Daily Express (16-Jun-2010)