Friday, 16 July 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Border police swoop on East Ham church
TWO men and one woman have been charged with immigration offences after being arrested at an East Ham church yesterday (July 14). Border police swooped during a wedding rehearsal at the Church of St Bartholomew on Barking Road at...
Newham Recorder (15-Jul-2010)

David Cameron acts to head off snap election challenge of Tory Right
David Cameron is mobilising grassroots Tories to prevent a lurch to the Right and to protect his coalition with the Liberal Democrats, the Standard can...
Evening Standard (15-Jul-2010)

Three teenage suspected illegal immigrants arrested under Immigration Act after being discovered in a lorry in Highgate
THREE teenage suspected illegal immigrants have been arrested after being discovered in the back of a lorry in Birmingham. Two males, aged 15 and 16, and a 15-year-old female were arrested under the Immigration Act after being discovered in a lorry in Cheapside, Highgate, on...
Birmingham Mail.net (15-Jul-2010)

Call to give London babies TB jabs as cases rise
Babies born in London must be vaccinated against tuberculosis to protect them against a resurgence of the disease, health experts have warned. Routine immunisation is needed to combat increasing numbers of children and adults contracting TB which attacks the lungs and can prove deadly, according to the...
Evening Standard (15-Jul-2010)

Middle-Eastern-style 'squat' lavatories fitted in Rochdale shopping centre
Middle-Eastern-style "squat" lavatories have been fitted in a shopping centre after management staff attended a cultural diversity...
Telegraph.co.uk (15-Jul-2010)

Nearly one in five Germans has immigrant background
ALMOST a fifth of all people in Germany now have immigrant roots, according to statistics released in Berlin this week. Some 16 million people - nearly 20 per cent of the 82 million population - have an immigrant...
The Scotsman (15-Jul-2010)

Population boost from minorities' growth
THE share of white British people living in Scotland will drop by 10 per cent by the middle of the century as ethnic minorities grow, new research has...
The Scotsman (15-Jul-2010)

DAVID CAMERON: HOUSING BENEFIT SYSTEM IS OUT OF CONTROL
DAVID Cameron yesterday branded the benefit system completely out of control after a Somali family were housed in a £2.1million mansion costing £8,000 a...
Scottish Daily Express (15-Jul-2010)

How your money's STILL being wasted on pointless PC jobs
From trampoline experts to walking advisers - hundreds of public sector non-jobs are advertised by councils every day, despite warnings that budgets may have to be slashed by as much as 40 per cent to tackle our huge...
Mail Online (15-Jul-2010)

Five candidates without the vision thing 
Labour s leadership campaign is drifting badly, with none of the contenders able to describe what they really stand...
New Statesman (15-Jul-2010)

Adrian Hamilton: Banning the burka is a lot of hot air
It may be because I'm too English for Gallic high rhetoric but it's very difficult to take seriously France's impassioned debate about banning the...
The Independent (15-Jul-2010)

Experts urge TB vaccine for all London children
All babies born in London should be vaccinated against tuberculosis to protect them against the growing threat from the disease, public health specialists...
The Independent (15-Jul-2010)