Britain said on Tuesday it had freed over 1,000 foreign prisoners, including murderers, rapists and pedophiles, who should have been considered for deportation at the time of their release.
In a major embarrassment to the government of Prime Minister Tony Blair ahead of local elections next week, the Home Office (interior ministry) said it had no [...]

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Criminal gangs trading in people and fake ID are “out of control”, senior police officers have told the BBC.
The officer leading the fight against organised immigration crime in London said people-trafficking now amounted to a 21st Century slave trade.
Det Ch Insp Bob Murrill said despite successful prosecutions, passport factories now operated [...]

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A Sky News poll has revealed widespread public support for many of the BNP’s policies - but less backing for the party itself.
The findings will prove worrying for all the main parties in the run-up to the local elections in nine days’ time.
The internet pollster YouGov questioned 1,841 people between last Friday and Monday.
They were [...]

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Fury at minister’s BNP ‘boost’
THERE was anger from opponents of the British National Party this week after an MP said eight out of 10 voters were considering backing the far-right group
Veteran anti-fascist campaigner Gerry Gable, co-ordinator of the Redbridge and Epping Forest Together group, criticised employment minister Margaret Hodge after she told reporters that most [...]

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A HEAD teacher from Wanstead was arrested last week in a scandal that could have serious long-term implications for the Government.
Des Smith, who lives in Dover Road, Wanstead, and teaches at All Saints school, Dagenham, was arrested following comments he made to The Times newspaper which suggested knighthoods were available to potential Labour Party donors.
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Among the marchers were people who had occupied a mosque and 11 churches to press their claim to a legal status and union members who supported them.
A draft law making it more difficult for immigrants to get work permits was being discussed by parliament.
The “sans-papiers”, as they are known, want the [...]

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Foreign doctors protest at UK visa change
Hundreds of foreign doctors gathered outside Downing Street today to voice their anger over new immigration rules they say will cause unfair discrimination.
The changes announced last month mean those from outside the EU will only be eligible to take up NHS work if the post cannot be filled by [...]

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When you thought that Blair’s regime couldn’t become any worse than it already is…
Gary McKinnon, a British hacker got access to some US computers of the US department of deffence. He didn’t damage the systems. The man should be rewarded by US authorities for finding these security issues before Iran did. But that’s not what [...]

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THE FIREBOMBINGS of two Turkish banks in Haringey are believed to be linked to homeland political unrest that is behind a wave of attacks across Europe.
Branches of Turkish Bank (UK) Ltd in Fore Street, Edmonton, and Green Lanes, Harringay, were targeted in a trio of Molotov cocktail attacks.
A Dalston branch of Turkish Ziraat Bank was [...]

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A GROUND-breaking report is urging Islamic madrasa schools - including ones in Redbridge - to adopt policies to prevent child abuse.
The Muslim Parliament’s Child Protection in a Faith-Based Environment: A Guideline Report, calls for a national register of mosque schools.
Its publication is the result of a seminar in January hosted by Ghazanfar Ali, chairman Ilford [...]

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Pensioners ‘losing out’ on benefits
Pensioners are missing out on council tax benefit which could cut their bill by £540 a year, according to Age Concern.
Pensioners lose out on up to £1.1 billion each year, it said.
“Spiralling household bills are leaving millions of older people struggling to make ends meet, yet they are still [...]

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Peugeot workers seek French help to save UK factory
UNION officials at Peugeot-Citroen today raised the threat of industrial action to fight the French car giant’s shock decision to close its UK factory in Coventry with the loss of 2300 jobs.
French unions are expected to be asked to show solidarity as part of protests against [...]

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Jail shaker for heroin addict
A HEROIN addict from Tower Hamlets caught smuggling a personal amount of the drug into Jersey has been jailed for three years.
The sentence imposed by the island’s Royal Court highlights Jersey’s hardline policy on narcotics. “Then sentence is extraordinarily high by UK terms,” said a spokesman for the Customs Department.
And once [...]

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Murdered for a mobile phone
TWO immigrants who battered and stabbed a thief to death in Stratford for stealing a mobile phone have been jailed for life.
Tomas Vaicatis, 23, and Aniranas Ziavrus, 30, burst into the home of Vitalik Rodzevic after he swiped the handset from their restaurant table.
The Lithuanians first stripped their 34-year-old [...]

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Neighbours in fight against brothel plans
PLANS to allow mini-brothels could see pimps and prostitutes take over residential blocks in Westminster, the government has been warned.
The government proposal would allow up to three prostitutes - as opposed to two previously - to operate from a property in a bid to get vice off the streets.
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Mapping new communities
WEMBLEY is the area in Britain with the highest proportion of people born abroad, according to a new report.
The Institute for Public Policy Research published Beyond Black and White: Mapping new immigrant communities, on Wednesday.
It found 52 per cent of all the people living in Wembley (that was years ago, probably many more [...]

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TONY Blair was last night planning to mount an extraordinary defence of the government’s issuing of peerages to wealthy tycoons who bankroll its policies, arguing that such honours are legitimate.
The Prime Minister was preparing to claim that it is right for ministers to recognise “philanthropist” businessmen who give their time and money to running controversial [...]

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While I was reading the news yesterday, I found an article claiming that unborn babies don’t feel pain till the age of 26 weeks. It didn’t take long for me to realize that this was not about science but about making women who consider abortion feel good about it.
The research claims that even though the [...]

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RAF Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith, having refused to serve in Iraq in what he correctly believes is an occupation brought about by an illegal war, is predictably given an 8-month prison sentence, fined £20,000 costs and dismissed from his job. Kendall-Smith, now a national hero, follows in the steps of Ben Griffin who resigned from [...]

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2m murdered in the Middle East in the past 10 years, pending threat of nuclear holocaust in Iran and a 3rd World War, taxes at home at all time highs, National Health crisis, Pensions crisis, Elderly care crisis, overflowing prisons, erasure of civil liberties, contempt for democracy and peoples intelligence; lying, deceit and corruption [...]

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