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Day: July 4, 2015

Calais Chaos: Migrants Enter Channel Tunnel
4Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, Europe

Calais Chaos: Migrants Enter Channel Tunnel

    Traffic along the Channel Tunnel has been disrupted overnight after migrants tried to enter restricted areas in Calais, according to reports. "From 10.30pm (local time), around 150 migrants attempted to enter the platforms," an official for the Pas-de-Calais prefecture told the AFP news agency. The spokesman said traffic was interrupted with long queues of lorries and cars forming, but an AFP journalist said the incident was resumed a few hours later. However, the disruption has had a knock-on effect on traffic. Police in Kent say they have put into action what is known as phase two of Operation Stack - where freight traffic is queued on sections of the M20 - closing parts of the road to other traffic. Last week, lorry drivers faced days of misery as they were held ...
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Found The Bethnal Green school girls who ran away to Syria
4Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Found The Bethnal Green school girls who ran away to Syria

    Runaway ISIS school girls 'under close watch in a compound for widows  The three British schoolgirls who ran away from home to join the Islamic State group in Syria were kept under close watch in a compound for widows and would-be jihadi brides while their loyalty to the movement was tested, The Telegraph has learned. Shamima Begum, 15, Kadiza Sultana, 16, and Amira Abase, 15, who ran away from home in February, spent their first months in Isil’s caliphate under lock and key in an apartment in the jihadists’ stronghold city of Raqqa. The schoolgirls, from Bethnal Green, east London, were put in the care of a woman handler known as Um Laith – “Mother of the Lion” – tasked with “purifying their Western minds” by instilling the practices of Isil’s hardline version of sha...
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Has Two Jobs John written off £1m that Mayor Lutfur Rahman tried to retrieve
4Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, London

Has Two Jobs John written off £1m that Mayor Lutfur Rahman tried to retrieve

    John Biggs is reported to have written off a £850,000 loan made to the Rich Mix (an organisation which styles itself East London’s independent arts venue). Independent councillors have implemented the call in” process which means that the decision will now be reviewed by a representative mix of councillors before it is implemented. The decision is fraught with controversy, as it centres around: •whether a semi-commercial arts venue will be given up to £850,000 of Council Tax-payers’ money without the usual processes being followed; •whether court proceedings to protect the Council’s right to secure repayment of a loan will be ditched; •the Labour Party’s involvement in what is supposed to be the decision of a public repre-sentative. Background The loan was made to ...
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Hundreds of immigrants to be freed from detention centres BEFORE being granted asylum
4Jul By Sumon AdminNo Comments
ENGLISH, United Kingdom

Hundreds of immigrants to be freed from detention centres BEFORE being granted asylum

    Immigration campaigners are furious amid fears that hundreds of asylum seekers will be freed because of human rights. Immigration minister James Brokenshire suspended the system over human rights fears The Government has suspended the asylum fast track system over fears it could be slammed by judges, meaning that a group of over 100 immigrants will be immediately freed from detention centres. The "detained fast track" policy was drawn up by Labour over a decade ago to deter bogus migrants from trying to claim asylum in Britain. It is applied in cases where economic migrants who sneak into the UK and attempt to claim asylum after they are caught. Many immigrants in this category will now be put into the main asylum system, where it can take years to resolve cases and ...
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