A selection of recent media reports

URGENT 'REVIEWS' AT OLD PEOPLE'S HOME
Southwark Council has instructed social workers to make urgent reviews of people it has placed at the old folks' home wh...
Southwark News (11-Mar-2010)
Leicestershire police hunt for lorry stowaways
Organised criminal gangs which force illegal migrants to work in poor conditions for a few pounds a day could be operati...
This is Leicestershire (11-Mar-2010)
America nears 'tipping point' where babies born to minority parents outnumber whites for first time
America is reaching a tipping point when the babies born to minority parents outnumber whites for the first time. More ...
Daily Mail (11-Mar-2010)
Frosty Welcome For UK Electronic Borders Plan
Government claims over the roll-out of its new electronic border controls are 'not credible', according to opposition pa...
97.4rockfm (11-Mar-2010)
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT LANDED A JOB IN LORDS
AN illegal immigrant worked in the Houses of Parliament for six months without any security checks, a court was told...
Daily Express (11-Mar-2010)
Gold Service traffickers exposed by The Sun
TODAY The Sun exposes a gang that offers illegal immigrants door-to-door delivery into Britain in a scam which they call...
Online Sun (10-Mar-2010)
Illegal immigrant worked at House of Lords for six months after using fake passport to get kitchen job
An illegal immigrant worked for six months serving lunch at House of Lords after using a fake passport to get the job, a...
Daily Mail (10-Mar-2010)
Fewer asylum seekers to Norway
In February this year 711 asylum seekers arrived in Norway.
The Norway Post (10-Mar-2010)
Brown meets MP over flats deaths
Prime Minister Gordon Brown will meet an MP to hear how a community coped following the apparent suicide of three asylum...
Press Association (10-Mar-2010)
WILLIAM HAGUE: LABOUR HAVE BLED US DRY
THE Shadow Foreign Secretary speaks to Daily Express readers about Gordon Brown s appalling regime and how the Tories pl...
Daily Express (10-Mar-2010)
Lumley named in row over Gurkha charity
Minister attacks campaigner's 'silence' as inquiry is launched into donations solicited in...
The Independent (10-Mar-2010)
Team in war on night crime
WAR has been declared on Newham's night-time crime economy. Police, the council and immigration oficers are working tog...
Newham Recorder (09-Mar-2010)
Homes help for asylum seekers
AN Oldham vicar is helping to lead a campaign to improve housing conditions for asylum seekers in the North-West. Rever...
Oldham Evening Chronicle (09-Mar-2010)
The battle for a Yorkshire marginal
As the Conservative candidate in a marginal seat, I see that while BNP support is a threat, the Labour vote has...
Guardian Unlimited - Comment is Free (09-Mar-2010)
Bates Wells hip hop lawyer wins Snoop Dogg immigration battle
Bates Wells & Braithwaite has paved the way for US rapper Snoop Dogg to enter the UK after a long-running battle wit...
The Lawyer.com (09-Mar-2010)
Social Care: Foreign and destitute
Around 20,000 asylum-seeking families are living in destitution in the UK. Nancy Rowntree asks whether the system needs ...
cypnow (09-Mar-2010)
Boarding Schools Association: 'still has concerns' over Tier 4 system
Despite a relatively smooth rollout of the new Tier 4 system for the immigration of international (non-EEA) students, th...
Politics.co.uk (09-Mar-2010)
Councils attacked for giving too much information on asylum-seeking children to UKBA
Local authorities have been accused of supplying more information on asylum-seeking children than they should to the UK ...
Community Care (09-Mar-2010)
Figures that reveal the cost of life for those with no hiding place
Asylum is protection given by a country to someone who is fleeing persecution in their own country. It is given under th...
Times Online (09-Mar-2010)
Asylum is a complex and emotive issue that will never satisfy everyone
If we can be sure of anything, it is that the mysterious and harrowing tale of the Russian family who jumped from a Glas...
Times Online (09-Mar-2010)
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