Public services are struggling to cope with the ’scale and pace’ of migration, Hazel Blears admitted yesterday.
But at the same time the Communities Secretary denied extra cash to police and hospitals.
The public services had been promised a share of the ‘tens of millions’ of pounds raised by a new Migration Trust Fund. for more click here
The wife of a man who tried to bomb a Tube train is facing jail for failing to tell police about his plan.
The Old Bailey heard Yeshi Girma, 32, of Stockwell, south London, knew of her husband Hussain Osman’s plot to set off a bomb at Shepherd’s Bush in July 2005. for more click here
The Pentagon has said an air strike by US forces in the Afghan-Pakistani border region, said to have killed 11 Pakistani soldiers, was legitimate.
It said US forces had acted in self-defence after coming under attack in clashes with pro-Taleban militias. for more click here
ROME - For 35 years, Nura Hadzovic has lived in a gypsy camp on the edge of town, raising four children and working.
Yet this month, for reasons she doesn’t fully comprehend, Hadzovic may become one of the latest casualties of the anti-immigrant backlash sweeping Italy and elsewhere in Europe. for more click here
European Union member states have agreed to intensify financial sanctions against Iran, going beyond existing UN measures aimed at containing Tehran’s nuclear programme, it emerged last night. Diplomats said the agreement was reached last week and would be announced today in a joint communique at the US-EU summit in Slovenia. for more click here
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration, in an aggressive new effort to keep illegal immigrants out of the workforce, on Monday ordered all companies doing business with the federal government to begin ensuring their employees can legally work in the U.S.
The order will require thousands of firms to use a government system called E-Verify to check workers’ Social Security numbers. The system has been voluntary for private firms but mandatory for government agencies. for more click here
A FORMER head of the SAS has quit the army after criticising the government for risking soldiers’ lives by failing to fund troops and equipment.
Brigadier Ed Butler, one of Britain’s most experienced and decorated special forces soldiers, is the most senior of three key commanders to have resigned in the past year amid widespread anger over lack of funding. for more click here
A new opinion poll shows that support for Labour has slumped to a record low only days before Gordon Brown faces his toughest parliamentary test since becoming Prime Minister.
An ICM survey for The Sunday Telegraph puts the Tories on 42 per cent, 16 points ahead of Labour’s 26 per cent - the lowest figure the party has recorded in any poll by the company. for more click here
Gordon Brown has written to all Labour MPs, seeking their support for plans to extend the time terror suspects can be held without charge to 42 days.
The Commons vote on extending the limit from 28 days is on Wednesday. for more click here
