A selection of recent media reports
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 seekers. The bodies of the mother, father and son were found at the bottom of a 31-storey block in Petershill Drive in the Springburn area of the city on...
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 plan to rebuild our broken...
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 together. The team's first operation raided nine chicken shops and arrested nine people for immigration...
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. Reverend John Simmons, of Christ Church in Block Lane, Chadderton, is also one of the leaders of the Greater Manchester Citizens for Sanctuary group, made up of faith, voluntary and...
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 with UK immigration.
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 reform. Asylum seekers. Image: Arlen Connelly Aicha was forced into prostitution after her claim for asylum was rejected by the UK authorities and her financial support was...
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, the Boarding Schools Association (BSA) has expressed concerns over its future...
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 Border's Agency (UKBA), which is allegedly using the information to make decisions on...
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 the 1951 United Nations Convention Relating to the Status of...
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 Glasgow tower block was not the typical story of failed asylum-seekers.
Times Online (09-Mar-2010)
IMMIGRATION: NO PARTY CAN CONTROL IT SAY VOTERS
WESTMINSTER politicians from all main parties have failed to convince voters that they can control immigration, an exclusive opinion poll for the Daily Express reveals...
Daily Express (09-Mar-2010)
VOTERS' CONCERNS ON MIGRATION MUST NOT BE IGNORED
AS we inch closer to the general election the political parties are ever more vocal with policies, pledges and promises as they clamour for...
Daily Express (09-Mar-2010)
Tottenham gypsy brothers face fraud charges
A FAMILY of Romany gypsies are facing allegations of fraud following accusations they cheated the benefits system. The four Dumitru brothers, who all live in council houses in Tottenham, are accused of benefitting from a scam designed to sidestep immigration laws in order to receive National...
Haringey Independent (08-Mar-2010)
Illegal workers found at Great Yarmouth restaurants
Immigration officers from the UK Border Agency found seven illegal workers during a raid of two Chinese restaurants in the Great Yarmouth area on...
Evening news 24 (08-Mar-2010)
Alastair Stewart: 'If they lie, I will be the toughest policeman on the block'
The ITN newsreader will chair the first live TV debate between the party...
Guardian Unlimited - Media (08-Mar-2010)
Fake ID bride-to-be's 'special' day ruined when she was arrested going down the aisle
A pregnant would-be bride was arrested moments before her wedding for using a forged Nigerian passport under a false...
Northampton Chronicle and Echo (08-Mar-2010)
Female campaigner for gipsy rights 'ran £2.6m benefit scam for Romanians'
A campaigner for Roma gipsies' rights has been charged with helping scores of Romanians illegally claim millions in benefits.
Daily Mail (08-Mar-2010)