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Challengers Fail To Get Backing To Force BNP Contest

Challengers fail to get backing to force BNP contest Nick Griffin will remain BNP leader for at least another year BBC NEWS August 12, 2010 A British National Party leadership contest has ended after three candidates hoping to challenge Nick … Continue reading

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Peterborough ‘Under Seige’ By Migrant Camps, Locals Claim

Peterborough 'under siege' by migrant camps, locals claim Unemployed migrants have set up more than a dozen squatting camps in one city, creating pressures on local services, it was claimed. By Andrew Hough Telegraph.co.uk Published: 7:30AM BST 11 Aug 2010 … Continue reading

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Women Who Escape Forced Marriages

Women who escape forced marriages Aneeta is 20 and living in fear her male relations will discover where shes staying. Her crime? To want to study instead of submitting to a forced marriage. Cyrus Shahrad reports Telegraph.co.uk Published: 7:00AM BST … Continue reading

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Hundreds Of Fitness Trainers, PR Executives And IT Workers Allowed To Work In UK

Hundreds of fitness trainers, PR executives and IT workers allow to work in UK Hundreds of fitness trainers, public relations executives and chefs from outside Europe have been allowed to work in Britain under Labour's “tough” immigration rules. By Martin … Continue reading

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Whistleblower : Hundreds Of Illegal Immigrants Get Away With Sham Marriages

Whistleblower: hundreds of illegal immigrants 'got away with sham marriages' A former immigration officer claims hundreds of illegal immigrants wed in sham marriages after Government officials turned a blind eye to the scandal. By Alastair Jamieson Telegraoh.co.uk Published: 11:30AM BST … Continue reading

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Bogus Marriage Immigrants Vanish

Bogus marriage immigrants vanish At least 50 illegal immigrants who took part in bogus marriages conducted by shamed vicar Alex Brown have disappeared without trace, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose. By David Barrett, Home Affairs Correspondent Telegraph.co.uk Published: 9:00PM BST … Continue reading

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Jobs For Which No EU Workers Could Be Found

Jobs for which no EU workers could be found By Brian Wheeler The BBC News, August 6, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-10880722 Britain has never felt like a country short of public relations people and personnel officers – or journalists for that matter. … Continue reading

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Date Set For Oakington Immigration Centre Closure

Date set for Oakington immigration centre closure The BBC, August 6, 2010 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-10893205 A date has been set for the closure of the Oakington immigration detention centre in Cambridgeshire. The centre, which is run by the UK Border Agency, will … Continue reading

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Families With Children Facing Deportation Given Two-Week Ultimatum Before Removal

Families with children facing deportation given two-week ultimatum before removal The Telegraph (U.K.), August 6, 2010 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/7929526/Families-with-children-facing-deportation-given-two-week-ultimatum-before-removal.html The scheme, aimed at ending the detention of youngsters in immigration centres, threatens deporting families 'at some point' without warning, if they fail … Continue reading

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Immigration Detainees Launch Hunger Strike Against Treatment

Immigration detainees launch hunger strike against treatment By Paddy McGuffin Morning Star (U.K.), August 3, 2010 http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/content/view/ full/93633 Over 100 detainees at the Campsfield House immigration removals centre in Oxfordshire began a hunger strike on Tuesday over conditions at the … Continue reading

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360 Weddings—-And A Prison Sentence?

360 weddings and a prison sentence? A vicar from a sleepy Sussex parish has been found guilty of conducting hundreds of sham marriages By Jerome Taylor PA THE INDEPENDENT Friday, 30 July 2010 With its imposing red brick walls, gently … Continue reading

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Home Office Staff ‘Failing To Attend Thousands Of Immigration Hearings’

Home Office staff 'failing to attend thousands of immigration hearings' Home Office staff are failing to attend thousands of general immigration hearings, according to new figures. By Andrew Hough Telegraph.co.uk Published: 7:30AM BST 30 Jul 2010 Officials admitted that almost … Continue reading

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Tens Of Thousands Of Failed Asylum Seekers Given Right To Work

Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers given right to work Tens of thousands of failed asylum seekers are to be allowed to work in the UK after the Government lost a legal battle over EU rules. By Tom Whitehead, … Continue reading

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UK Gov’t To Offer India Direct Say In Drawing Up Immigration Policy

UK govt to offer India direct say in drawing up immigration policy The Economic Times 28 Jul 2010, 0038 hrs IST,AGENCIES BANGALORE: Prime Minister David Cameron, who is on a two-day visit to India leading the largest official delegation to … Continue reading

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Vince Cable Refuses To Back Down In Immigration Row

Vince Cable refuses to back down in immigration row Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, has continued to defy David Cameron by speaking out against the Governments plans to introduce a cap on immigration. By Rosa Prince, Political Correspondent, in Bangalore … Continue reading

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Conservative Immigration Cap Under Threat From Liberal Democrats

Conservative immigration cap under threat from Liberal Democrats Fears that the Coalition will water down Tory commitments for an immigration cap have been raised after David Cameron was urged by Vince Cable to scrap the pledge in order to boost … Continue reading

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Fast-Track Deportations From UK ‘Unlawful’

Fast-track deportations from UK 'unlawful' BBC NEWS 26 July 2010 Last updated at 08:28 ET The fast-track deportation of foreign nationals refused permission to remain in the UK has been declared unlawful by the High Court. A judge ruled that … Continue reading

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Britain To Set New Immigration Quota, Warned It Could Hamper Growth And Hurt Business

Britain to set new immigration quota, warned it could hamper growth and hurt business By: DAVID STRINGER Associated Press 07/25/10 9:10 AM EDT LONDON—British Prime Minister David Cameron won much attention on his recent trip to the United States with … Continue reading

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British Girls Undergo Horror Of Genital Mutilation Despite Tough Laws

British girls undergo horror of genital mutilation despite tough laws Female circumcision will be inflicted on up to 2,000 British schoolgirls during the summer holidays leaving brutal physical and emotional scars. Yet there have been no prosecutions against the practice … Continue reading

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25 Per Cent British Babies Born To Indians, Pakistanis

25 percent British babies born to Indians, Pakistanis Indo-Asian News Service London, July 22, 2010 First Published: 14:07 IST(22/7/2010) Last Updated: 14:13 IST(22/7/2010) Almost a quarter of babies in Britain are born to immigrant mothers, mostly from India, Pakistan and … Continue reading

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