Saturday, 17 July 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Marriages row vicar denies manipulation
An East Sussex vicar accused of conducting hundreds of sham marriages to help illegal immigrants gain residency in the UK..
The Scotsman (16-Jul-2010)

Landlords are hidden housing benefit victims
Some buy-to-let landlords who opt to rent to housing benefit tenants have been onto an investment winner, new rules are...
This is Money (16-Jul-2010)

Immigrants 'Should Get Half Minimum Wage'
A bitter row has broken out in Denmark after a politician suggested the country's immigrants should be paid only half the..
LBC (16-Jul-2010)

Minister presents rule changes for the interim migration limit to parliament
Earlier today Damian Green, minister for immigration laid before Parliament changes to the Immigration Rules.
M2 (16-Jul-2010)

Anti-Muslim Dutch lawmaker to spread movement to UK,other Western nations
A controversial anti-Muslim Dutch MP has said that he will be forming an international alliance to spread his message to Britain and across the West in a bid to ban immigration from Islamic...
Irish Sun (16-Jul-2010)

MPs given power of veto over Office of Budget Responsibility chairman
George Osborne is taking unprecedented measures to preserve the independence of the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR).
Telegraph.co.uk (16-Jul-2010)

Geert Wilders to spread anti-Muslim movement to UK
Geert Wilders, the controversial anti-Muslim Dutch MP, has said he is forming an international alliance to spread his...
Telegraph.co.uk (16-Jul-2010)

Peter the Great's poisonous pen will do Britain a power of good
Mandelson's memoir exposes the moral bankruptcy at the heart of the Brown government, says Jeff Randall .
Yahoo! Finance UK (15-Jul-2010)

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...
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...
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.
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..
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...
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...
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...
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.
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,...
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..
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...
The Independent (15-Jul-2010)