Saturday, 26 June 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Racial violence moving from inner cities into towns and villages - report
Racial violence moving from inner cities into towns and villages - report Racial violence is moving from the inner cities of Britain to its towns and villages, a report warned...
24Dash.com (25-Jun-2010)

Towns and villages 'seeing rise in racial crime'
Racial violence is moving from the inner cities of Britain to its towns and villages, a report warned today. Researchers said a map of attacks fuelled by hate and bigotry shows a dramatic change in just one...
The Independent (25-Jun-2010)

Sham marriage 'groom' jailed
A Nigerian man arrested at his wedding rehearsal is the latest person jailed from a UK Border Agency investigation into sham marriages in...
Northampton Chronicle and Echo (25-Jun-2010)

Six arrested on suspected marriage sham
A bride and groom together with four wedding guests were arrested as part of a UK Border Agency investigation into a suspected sham marriage. Acting on intelligence, officers from the UK Border Agency's north west immigration crime team targeted Manchester Register Office at around midday, as the...
M2 (25-Jun-2010)

Four stowaways found in a lorry load of machine parts
UK Border Agency officers based in Calais have caught four stowaways trying to enter the UK by hiding in a lorry load of machine parts heading for the north...
M2 (25-Jun-2010)

Italian separatists revel in Slovak football victory
Italy's humiliating exit from the World Cup has been seized on by the country's Northern League to rally support for its campaign to split the...
Telegraph.co.uk (25-Jun-2010)

Ministers will push through plan for cap on immigration
The flagship Tory policy of an annual immigration cap is to go ahead despite fears from some ministers of the impact on business. Home Office sources today insisted that the policy, to be unveiled in detail on Monday, was popular with the public and would not be...
Evening Standard (25-Jun-2010)

Cabinet wavers over immigration cap as business concerns raised
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Yahoo! News UK & Ireland (25-Jun-2010)

IMMIGRATION BABY BOOM HELPS TO PUSH BRITAIN'S POPULATION TO 62M
A MIGRANT baby boom and immigration have sent Britains population soaring close to 62 million and the numbers are rising by more than 1,000 a...
Sunday Express (25-Jun-2010)

Coalition Government Announces Immigration To The UK To Be Brought Down To 1990's Levels
Following publication of recent statistics on increase in total population in the UK by 2.7 million since 2001, the new Government has announced plans to reduce immigration to the...
eGov Monitor (25-Jun-2010)

NATION OF STRIFE AND STRAIN
MINISTERS in the last Labour government ridiculed predictions that the population of Britain would soar to 70million. now there is powerful evidence that it will. official statistics show the population is already approaching 62million and is growing by almost 400,000 a...
Scottish Daily Express (25-Jun-2010)

Population rises to 62 million but net migration falls
The country's population rose by 394,000 in 2008-09, according to statistics published yesterday. The increase is in line with previous years over the past decade, but it is only the second time since 2000 that migration has not been the main...
The Independent (25-Jun-2010)

Convictions point to rise of far right extremism
Today's convictions of a 42-year-old food packer and a 59-year-old builder on inciting racial hatred brings to 16 the number of convictions connected to far right extremism in the past two years, as Home Affairs Correspondent Simon Israel...
Channel 4 News (24-Jun-2010)

Rising births by migrant driving population
Rising births among migrants has helped drive up the UK population to almost 62 million, figures...
Telegraph.co.uk (24-Jun-2010)

Immigrant baby boom drives up British population by double rate of previous decade
Britain's fast-rising population is now close to 62 million, a new official count showed yesterday. Numbers of people in the country went up by 394,000 to reach 61,792,000 by the middle of last year, the Office for National Statistics...
Mail Online (24-Jun-2010)