Tuesday, 31 August 2010

A selection of recent media reports

France to push on with Roma repatriation
France will not stop its policy of repatriating Roma after almost 1,000 people were sent back to Romania and Bulgaria since a..
Yahoo! News UK & Ireland (30-Aug-2010)

Locals to be given priority over immigrants in queue for council houses
British people will be allowed to leap immigrants in the queue for council houses under changes planned by the Government.
Mail Online (30-Aug-2010)

NOSY NEIGHBOURS NEEDED TO TACKLE CANNABIS CRIME GANGS
POLICE are recruiting curtain-twitching householders in their war on Far Eastern crime gangs who rent suburban homes and...
Sunday Express (30-Aug-2010)

Hash gang invasion
BRUTAL south-east Asian trafficking gangs are today exposed as the sinister force behind Scotland's hash farm trade - with...
The Scottish Sun (30-Aug-2010)

BRITISH FAMILIES MUST TAKE PRIORITY ON HOUSING LISTS
AT PRESENT council houses are allocated on the basis of need. As a result the homeless, the elderly and families with many...
Express.co.uk (30-Aug-2010)

IMMIGRANTS ARE SENT TO BACK OF COUNCIL HOUSING QUEUES
TOWN hall chiefs will get more freedom to put British-born families ahead of immigrants in the queue for council houses under..
Sunday Express (30-Aug-2010)

Many migrant workers in UK are modern-day slaves, say investigators
Channel 4's Dispatches says thousands of workers endure sexual, physical and psychological abuse from...
Guardian.co.uk (30-Aug-2010)

How thousands of council homes go to foreigners
Thousands of Eastern European citizens are given council houses every year, leapfrogging millions of Britons languishing for...
Mail Online (29-Aug-2010)

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...
Guardian.co.uk (29-Aug-2010)