Sunday, 12 June 2011

A selection of recent media reports

Dognapper jailed for two years
AN immigrant was jailed for two years yesterday for kidnapping a bank director’s dog when she could not arrange him a loan. Polish Ga
Mirror.co.uk (11-Jun-2011)

ROMANIANS IN UK SEND HOME £500K EVERY DAY
ROMANIAN workers in Britain send home £500,000 every day.
Daily Star (11-Jun-2011)

CHEAPENING OF CITIZENSHIP
IN 2009 more than 200,000 foreigners were given British citizenship. Despite the last government’s claims to be running a f
Express.co.uk (11-Jun-2011)

UK’S 204,000 PASSPORTS GIVEAWAY
BRITAIN handed out passports at the “astonishing” rate of almost two every five minutes to make it the most open country in Europ
Express.co.uk (11-Jun-2011)

SERIAL RAPIST JAILED INDEFINITELY
A serial rapist who subjected three strangers to terrifying assaults in a 10-week period has been jailed indefinitely for p
Sunday Express (10-Jun-2011)

Blair is a fool – Blue Labour has enormous attraction for both Labour and Conservative voters
It was interesting to note that in his Times interview yesterday T
Telegraph Blogs (10-Jun-2011)

Firms to be paid £14,000-a-head to hire jobless
A million jobless people are to be forced into a welfare-to-work scheme run by private firms to ensure British jobs are
This is Money (10-Jun-2011)

French Muslim couple use British taxpayer cash to fight burkha ban back home
British taxpayers are paying for a French Muslim couple to challenge their count
Mail Online (10-Jun-2011)

Bulgaria and Romania excluded from 'borderless' EU travel zone
The European Union decided yesterday to keep Bulgaria and Romania out of its borderless travel zone for now, even though the two EU nations have met the required technical standards.
Independent.ie (10-Jun-2011)

Gardaà to investigate 400 ‘sham’ marriages
GARDAÍ are investigating 400 marriages by Latvian citizens in Ireland to non-EU spouses, believing many of them to be a sham.
Irish Examiner.com (10-Jun-2011)

FRENCH MUSLIMS USE OUR CASH TO FIGHT BURKHA BAN
A FRENCH Muslim couple sparked fury yesterday by using a free legal service paid for by British taxpayers to cha
Scottish Daily Express (10-Jun-2011)

HUMAN RIGHTS MADNESS
THE Immigration Advisory Service relies on taxpayers for almost all of its funding.
Express.co.uk (10-Jun-2011)

33 illegal workers arrested in raid
A total of 33 illegal workers have been arrested in Leicester during a large-scale raid on textile businesses. More than 100
Sleaford Standard (10-Jun-2011)

Foreign cleaners and cooks face crackdown
Foreign cooks and cleaners will be banned from working in homes as part of a clamp-down on immigration. Damian Green, t
The Independent (10-Jun-2011)