Britain’s face is changing. More than half of all babies born in London last year were the children of foreign-born mothers. Across England and Wales, the figure was approaching a quarter.
Recent polls, including the Ipsos Mori political monitor, last month, have put immigration at number one in the public’s list of concerns. This used to [...]
Entries from August 2007
Immigration is changing rural England life
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Subway goes hala
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SANDWICH chain Subway is to open two Halal-only stores in Manchester.
The shops in Cheetham Hill and Levenshulme, expected to open next month, will serve exclusively Halal meat in line with Muslim dietary rules.
Subway already has a successful Halal store in Walthamstow, London, and the company is planning to open seven in Greater Manchester and West [...]
Tags: Islam & the Arab World
Two hundred years on, Rothschild banking group unifies
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The French and English branches of the fabled Rothschild banking family announced their unification on Tuesday, ending a separation that dates from the 19th century.
Under an agreement announced on Tuesday the two will unify their
shareholdings under a single holding company, the French group Paris-Orleans.
Symbols of finance, the Rothschild dynasty, which includes media personalities, amateurs of [...]
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Loyalist riots ‘have done damage’
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The UDA has done itself an enormous amount of damage following recent violence in Carrickfergus and Bangor, UUP leader Sir Reg Empey has warned.
Sir Reg has previously met UDA members to persuade them to give up violence.
Calls to scrap a £1.2m regeneration scheme followed Wednesday’s trouble, which saw police officers attacked.
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Cleric ‘not preaching’ to inmates
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The lawyer for a Muslim preacher fighting extradition from the UK has denied her client has been preaching hate to fellow inmates.
Abu Qatada, who once preached at the Finsbury Park mosque in north London, is being held at a specialist unit at Long Lartin jail in Worcestershire.
A prison union has said he could be radicalising [...]
Tags: Islam & the Arab World
Black MPs spurn Boris mayoral bid
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Conservative MP Boris Johnson’s bid to become London mayor has been condemned by black MPs.
Dawn Butler and Diane Abbott, Labour MPs for Brent South and Hackney North respectively, said his views on race harked back to the 1950s.
The comments came after the mother of black murdered teenager Stephen Lawrence criticised Mr Johnson’s bid.
Mr Johnson is [...]
Tags: Politics
RAPIST MADE KNIFE THREAT
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A Woman was raped as she walked home in Newcastle town centre.Mohammed Ahmed, aged 26, of Grove Road, Heron Cross, followed his victim into a subway near Sainsbury’s at about 3am on December 3 and punched her in the face.
He then told her he had a knife and demanded she perform sexual acts during an [...]
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Wales - Labour’s unions acting against members’ interests
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It is reported that Labour have given over 700,000 migrants, of which some 300,000 come from Eastern Europe, the right to work in Britain. This takes the number of National Insurance numbers handed out to foreigners to more than two million over the last four years alone! But these official figures mask the real [...]
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COUNCILLORS VENT ANGER AT THE BNP
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Stoke-on-trent city councillors launched a furious attack on the British National Party (BNP) at a meeting yesterday.The tirade came after BNP councillors demanded an apology from elected mayor Mark Meredith for refusing to include them in discussions about policy-making.
Councillor Alby Walker, leader of the BNP Group, said: “More than 8,000 people voted for the [...]
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