Monday 30 August 2010

A selection of recent media reports

Latvian woman in marriage scam claims she was raped
A YOUNG Latvian woman has told gardai that she was raped and sexually assaulted by men who lured her to Ireland to take part in an arranged marriage. The woman claimed that she was used for sex by a group of Asian men who moved her between different houses in Waterford and the Cork towns of Midleton and...
Irish Independent (29-Aug-2010)

Milibands: Head to Ed
THEY'VE been dubbed Gawky and Geeky. But either David Miliband (above left) or his kid brother Ed is set to become the next...
News of the World (29-Aug-2010)

Far-right protesters clash with police in UK
LONDON (AP) A right-wing group that opposes what it calls the spread of Islam in Britain clashed with riot police in northern...
Guardian.co.uk (29-Aug-2010)

VINCE CABLE DEMANDS NO LIMIT ON IMMIGRATION
VINCE Cable put fresh strain on the Coalition yesterday by urging Tory ministers to avoid imposing immigration controls...
Scottish Daily Express (28-Aug-2010)

Special Investigation: As France expels its gipsies, is this a chilling echo of the Nazis...or just a desperate attempt ..
Dawn breaks over the outskirts of Paris, its arrival marked by the banging of fists on the locked door of a caravan.
Mail Online (28-Aug-2010)

Students from overseas boost 20% migration rise to Britain
Figures seen as bad news for government plans for cap of tens of...
The Press and Journal (27-Aug-2010)

Immigration threat now all too real
WHEN Prime Minister David Cameron declared he was in favour of Turkey being allowed to become a full member of the European Union.
This is Plymouth (27-Aug-2010)

Immigration is more than an economic issue
New figures simply confirm what people see with their own eyes that our country is desperately overcrowded
Daily Telegraph (27-Aug-2010)

Ed Miliband hits back at his brother
By Ian...
Politics.co.uk (27-Aug-2010)

Three charged over suspected sham wedding in Essex
A 28-year-old Dutch woman, her 35-year-old groom and a 32-year-old witness, both from Nigeria, have been charged over a suspected.
BBC News; Isle of Man (27-Aug-2010)

Moment 'sham marriage' couple arrested at altar caught on camera
The moment a bride and groom were arrested at the altar on suspicion of staging a sham marriage has been caught on...
Telegraph.co.uk (27-Aug-2010)

Babies to foreign mothers at record levels
The proportion of babies born to foreign mothers is at a record high, with migrants accounting for three quarters of births in...
Telegraph.co.uk (27-Aug-2010)

200,000 NEW IMMIGRANTS
Foreign students flocking to UK Britain's population swelled by almost 200,000 last year as more foreign students than ever...
Mirror.co.uk (27-Aug-2010)

NUMBER OF MIGRANTS STAYING IN THE UK UP 20%
THE number of immigrants staying in Britain has rocketed by 20%.
Daily Star (27-Aug-2010)

Get it right first time on asylum cases, government told
Charities have urged the government to improve decision making as figures showed more than a third of asylum appeals were granted.
The Scotsman (27-Aug-2010)

One in four babies born to mothers from overseas
NEARLY a quarter of all births in the UK last year were to mothers who were born overseas. Figures from the Office for National...
The Scotsman (27-Aug-2010)

UK is the second most congested nation in EU
BRITAIN has become the second most crowded nation in the European Union, immigration figures showed...
The Scottish Sun (27-Aug-2010)

224,000 IMMIGRANTS WIN RIGHT TO STAY IN BRITAIN
ROCKETING numbers of immigrants have been given the right to live in Britain permanently in the past year, official figures...
Scottish Daily Express (27-Aug-2010)

LEGACY OF MIGRATION CHAOS
THIS newspaper has taken the Government to task for many years over its soft attitude to immigration.
Express.co.uk (27-Aug-2010)

200,000 new immigrants in Britain as foreign students flock to UK
Britains population swelled by almost 200,000 last year as more foreign students than ever arrived. Net migration, the...
Mirror.co.uk (27-Aug-2010)