Thursday, 21 April 2011

A selection of recent media reports

Tests on immigrants 'miss most TB'
Screening procedures for tuberculosis in immigrants in the UK are missing the majority of cases, new research has revealed. 
The Independent (21-Apr-2011)

European human rights rulings are having a "chilling effect" on public safety, warns peer.
European human rights laws have had a “chilling effect” on public safety
Telegraph.co.uk (21-Apr-2011)

University visas suspended
GLASGOW Caledonian University has become the first in the UK to have its overseas student visa licence suspended after claims t
Herald Scotland (21-Apr-2011)

University has foreign student licence suspended
A university has been stopped from bringing in foreign students for the first time after concerns over visa a
Telegraph.co.uk (21-Apr-2011)

TB screening misses 70% of latent cases
UK should radically change tuberculosis screening policy and include arrivals from Indian subcontinent, experts say
Guardian.co.uk (21-Apr-2011)

Ed Miliband pinpoints voters' Southern discomfort with Labour
Voter anger at immigration and the high cost of living was behind Labour's election defeats in L
London Evening Standard (20-Apr-2011)

Carlisle MP backs Prime Minister's pledge on immigration
A pledge by the Prime Minister to control immigration has been backed by Carlisle’s MP.
News & Star (20-Apr-2011)

A career thug was shipped back to Britain from Australia, so why can't we do the same thing?
On the other side of the world, a migrant convicted of the attempted murder o
Mail Online (20-Apr-2011)

BID TO SLASH MIGRANT LEVELS ‘ONLY AN AMBITION
DAVID Cameron was accused of backtracking on immigration yesterday after he claimed slashing it to 1980s levels is an
Scottish Daily Express (20-Apr-2011)

Bomb plotter's release hopes raised
Bomb plotter Nezar Hindawi, who was jailed for 45 years over his bid to blow up an Israeli airliner, has had his application f
London Evening Standard (19-Apr-2011)

EU Med states under pressure from unrest migrants
Description -- (NICOSIA) - Five southern Mediterranean countries on Tuesday called on the Europea
EUbusiness.com (19-Apr-2011)

Miliband: People 'lost trust' in Labour on immigration
Past errors in immigration policy contributed to voters in the south of England "losing trust" in Labour
BBC News UK (19-Apr-2011)

Judge lets bigamist bride walk free after she helped police track down immigrant sham marriage broker
A bigamist bride who married an illegal immigrant in a sham ma
Mail Online (19-Apr-2011)

Sponsored by Drugs factory ‘farmer’ jailed
An illegal immigrant has been found guilty of setting up and running a cannabis factory capable of netting thousa
Northants Evening Telegraph (19-Apr-2011)

Cameron's backtrack: Plan to slash number of immigrants 'is ambition, not coalition policy', PM says
Reducing the number of new immigrants to 1980s levels is an 'am
Mail Online (19-Apr-2011)

David Cameron: Immigration cut is ambition not policy
Reducing the number of new immigrants to 1980s levels is an "ambition" rather than Government policy
London Evening Standard (19-Apr-2011)

EU threw its weight behind France's decision temporarily to shut its borders to trains carrying African migrants from It..
The European Commission on Monday threw its weight behind France's decision temporarily to shut its borders to trains carrying African migrants from Italy, saying it did not breach European Union rules.
Balkans.com Business News (19-Apr-2011)

WHY CANT WE DO THAT? AUSTRALIA SHIPS CONVICT BACK HOME TO BRITAIN
A BRITON who moved to Australia with his family as a boy of six has been deported back to the UK afte
Sunday Express (19-Apr-2011)

Trust could pay to fly foreign patients home
COLCHESTER’S hospital trust is considering paying to fly foreign patients home to stop them running up big bills
Gazette News (18-Apr-2011)

North African immigrants straining Europe's unity
DON MELVIN Associated Press= BRUSSELS (AP) — A bitter dispute over a flood of North African immigrants is w
Guardian.co.uk (18-Apr-2011)