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A selection of recent media reports

Asylum seekers continue hunger strike in Lincolnshire Failed asylum seekers from Afghanistan who began a hunger strike outside a Lincolnshire immigration c BBC News England (17-Sep-2011)

New guidelines on ‘sham marriages’ introduced NEW GUIDELINES FOR marriage registrars have been introduced by the government in an attempt to stop the rise in numbers of suspected ‘sham marriages’. Identification is now to be required after “intense lobbying” was conducted by other EU member states after the rise in suspected bogus marriages be The Journal.ie (17-Sep-2011)

MSP 'shocked' that rapist was allowed to stay in UK A CONVICTED rapist from Jamaica who escaped deportation because he was not deemed at risk of reoffending has bee Edinburgh Evening News (17-Sep-2011)

Dutch to oppose Romania, Bulgaria's Schengen bid The Dutch government will oppose bids by Romania and Bulgaria to enter Europe's visa-free Schengen zone, including a partial entry, when EU ministers meet next week, a spokeswoman said Friday. Expatica.com (16-Sep-2011)

UK reviewing European rights laws to crackdown on foreign criminals UK Immigration Minister Damian Green has ordered setting up of a commission to consider replacing European human rights laws with a British Bill of Rights in a crackdown on foreign criminals avoiding deportation from the country. Irish Sun (16-Sep-2011)

EU proposes rules for curbs on passport-free travel * Europe gears for fight over border controls * Immigration fears fuel debate * Draft laws spell out curbs to Guardian.co.uk (16-Sep-2011)

Five detained by immigration officers after raids on restaurants and shop Five people who were living or working illegally in Cornwall have been caught by immi This is Cornwall (16-Sep-2011)

Border chiefs promise to deport illegal immigrant left in limbo at hospital for a year UK BORDER chiefs were this week promising to deport an illegal immigrant who has Stourbridge News (16-Sep-2011)

HOW FOREIGN CROOKS ABUSE HUMAN RIGHTS FOREIGN criminals are using the right to family life enshrined in European human rights laws to appeal successfully aga Sunday Express (16-Sep-2011)

MIDWIFE CRISIS AS BIRTHS SOAR ENGLAND’s rocketing birthrate is leaving parts of the country dangerously short of midwives. Express.co.uk (16-Sep-2011)

BARONESS FLATHER: Polygamy, welfare benefits and an insidious silence Behind the creation of the modern welfare state lay a noble ideal. The post-war generation Mail Online (15-Sep-2011)