Saturday, 12 June 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Record numbers of angry parents 'launching appeals over student place shortages' | Mail Online
Record numbers of disgruntled parents are launching formal appeals against the state schools assigned to their children as anger intensifies over a shortage of places at good...
The Mail On Sunday (10-Jun-2010)

Seven face deportation after immigration raids
FIVE Bangladeshi workers at restaurants in Meirionnydd were arrested after immigration raids on restaurants across north Wales. They were arrested and later released on immigration bail while steps are taken by the UK Border Agency to remove them from the...
Cambrian News Online (10-Jun-2010)

Where Labour is concerned, the past is another country
The odd thing about the Labour leadership contest, nominations for which closed yesterday, is that the leading candidates all appear to have been elsewhere during the last 13 years of Labour...
Herald Scotland (10-Jun-2010)

Dutch turn right in election
The Netherlands swung to the right today with its VVD party claiming victory in national elections. It appears as if for the first time in our history the VVD has become the largest party, would-be prime minister Mark Rutte told chanting...
Evening Echo (10-Jun-2010)

Sham bride who was given away by her.... jeans
Police halted a sham wedding seconds before an African groom exchanged vows with his French bride and discovered she was wearing jeans under her wedding...
Metro (10-Jun-2010)

'Garden grab' crackdown descends into class warfare between Prescott and Zac Goldsmith
John Prescott ignited a class war yesterday with a ferocious attack on a decision to prevent 'garden grabbing' by developers. The Labour grandee's outburst on live radio came during a debate on a Conservative initiative that will make it much harder to turn gardens into...
Mail Online (10-Jun-2010)

BRIDE AND GROOM ARE LED AWAY IN CUFFS OVER SHAM MARRIAGE 
THIS is the moment a wedding came to a sudden halt with the bride and groom led away in handcuffs after they were arrested on suspicion of taking part in a sham...
Daily Express (10-Jun-2010)

Ed Balls discusses 'things we got wrong' in power
The Labour Party needs to have the "confidence" to admit the areas of policy it "got wrong" while in power, Shadow Health Secretary and Labour Party leadership contender Ed Balls has...
BBC News (09-Jun-2010)

Wise after the event | Mail Online
First Ed Balls breaks the startling news that he's long been in favour of tougher curbs on immigration. Then he tells us he's always been against the war in...
The Mail On Sunday (09-Jun-2010)