DES BROWNE, the Scottish and defence secretary, was under pressure this weekend to sack one of his top aides for describing Scotland as a “narrow, Presbyterian and racist” country. John McTernan, a special adviser to Browne and former Downing Street aide to Tony Blair, made the comments in a personal e-mail to a Labour politician.
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[They send a lot of their money home, so how is this benefitting Scotland?-ed]
MIGRANT workers are here for one main reason – money.
They can earn several times the wages doing menial jobs, rather than stay at home doing much more skilled work.
Often, they are vastly overqualified for the jobs they do.

And many have two and, [...]

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POLICE were today investigating anti-English graffiti which appeared on a row of cottages in the Highlands.
“English out” has been daubed in white paint on the walls of one of the properties in Fort Augustus. Another slogan on the door bears the name of extremist nationalist group Siol nan Gaidheal (Seed of the Gael).
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AN Iraqi asylum-seeker was jailed for five years today after raping a schoolgirl in a park.
Former police officer Shaban Ahmed handed his victim £10 after subjecting her to the sex attack.
Ahmed, whose partner gave birth to a baby girl two days ago, was told on the eve of his conviction that he could stay in [...]

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A teenage boy has been found guilty of having unlawful sex with a 12-year-old girl in a Glasgow secondary school.
The schoolgirl, who is now 14, had claimed she was raped by the pupil.
A jury at the High Court in Glasgow found a 15-year-old boy not guilty of rape and guilty of having unlawful sex with [...]

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AN ATTEMPT by the SNP-led Scottish Executive to secure an amnesty for 1,400 asylum-seeking families in Scotland has been rejected by UK ministers, it emerged last night.
Fiona Hyslop, the education secretary, set out the Executive’s approach to asylum seekers yesterday, calling for all families who had been in Scotland since March 2006 to be given [...]

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A 30-year-old woman has been raped by a gang of four men in Glasgow.
Police said the victim was attacked while walking her dog in Overnewton Street, in the Yorkhill area of the city, at about 0040 BST.
The men were described as being of Afro Caribbean appearance. One was said to be in his mid 20s [...]

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[I thought they were boosting our economy? How can sending money out of Scotland be of benefit?-ed]
STAFF at the Money Shop in Glasgow are being given crash courses in Polish.
Employees at the Renfield Street store are being taught some basic phrases following a rise in the number of Polish customers using the shop.
Research among [...]

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An African footballer has gone on the run after his team visited Aberdeen for the city’s International Football Festival.
Ghanaian Emanuel Anarfi disappeared while his team attended the city’s annual sports event.
He was believed to have left his African team-mates in the hope of starting a new life in London.
Last year the Evening Express told [...]

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Two men have been sentenced to nine years in jail for handling Scotland’s biggest ever opium haul.
Ali Abed, 34, and Fatholla Abedi, 40, were caught when £54,000 worth of the drug was uncovered at an English airport en route to Aberdeen.
The pair were found guilty at the city’s sheriff court three weeks ago [...]

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Race riots could erupt in rural towns and villages with large numbers of Eastern European immigrants, a Government report will warn.
A special commission says community tensions are now more likely to overheat in rural areas than northern mill towns with a history of troubles.
Councils will be told they must draw up integration plans [...]

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CHILDREN as young as four play unsupervised on busy street corners by day, while teenagers hurl bricks and bottles at each other by night.
Welcome to Govanhill in Glasgow, where young families who came in search of a better life find themselves caught up in rising racial tensions.
Residents claim toddlers and youngsters, originally from Slovakia or [...]

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[Playing the race card as per usual. Who allowed people like this into this country in the first place?-ed]
A CONVICTED thug has had his current detention term increased after stabbing a schoolboy on the bottom.
Halim Noor knifed the15-year-old, who was making his way home from his secondary school in Glasgow’s South Side last March.
Noor [...]

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It seems that England is not the only nation in the UK experiencing an ever growing population, aided by the rise in immigration. Scotland’s population has increased for the third year running to almost 5.1 million.
The official figures revealed April 28, show Scotland has experienced the second largest wave of people travelling from other countries [...]

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An Inverness policeman has been appointed liaison officer for the rapidly-expanding Polish community in the city reports the Press & Journal, Inverness is currently home to more than 8,000 Poles and the number is increasing by up to 200 every three weeks. One area of concern for the Northern Constabulary has been the high incidence [...]

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[Why did they not even bother to learn English before they came to Scotland? They should pay for their own translation services-ed]
TRANSLATION costs for public bodies in the Lothians have doubled in two years following an influx of immigrants.
The growing number of migrant workers, particularly from eastern Europe, means the city council, police and [...]

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SCORES of Polish immigrants are helping to make Scotland’s national dish.
Jo Macsween, one of the directors of the Macsween haggis empire, has revealed around 80 per cent of job applications they receive are from Poles.
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Speaking in a radio interview, she said the Edinburgh company often preferred to hire foreign workers. [...]

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Hundreds of unaccompanied asylum seeker children are in line to be housed in Scotland to ease pressure on English local authorities, The Herald has learned.
The Home Office is consulting on proposals to find other homes for about 3000 children who arrive alone in the UK each year and claim asylum, after complaints from London and [...]

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PROTESTERS say they prevented another dawn raid from going ahead in Glasgow yesterday by demonstrating outside an immigration centre in the city.
During the six-hour protest, one man sat atop a 12ft wooden tripod outside the entrance to the Home Office’s national asylum support service offices in Cessnock. A banner strung between the tripod and a [...]

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[The fact is that the money is not benefitting the Scottish economy.
The same goes for most of the money earned by "legal" immigrants, such as the Poles, who send their money home, not to mention the benefit claims made in the names of family members still residing in Poland. £20,000 to come to the [...]

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