East European immigrants transforming London
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16:47 24/10/2005
Nearly a year and a half after the expansion of the European Union, waves of East Europeans have washed into Britain . The New York Times reports. They work as bus drivers, farmhands and dentists, as...
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16:39 24/10/2005
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14:59 24/10/2005
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13:53 24/10/2005
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UK immigration hit record high in 2004
17:23 21/10/2005
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13:58 20/10/2005
New figures show that about 111,000 workers came to the UK from the new EU countries in the past year. That figure is up from 20,000, the number that arrived before EU enlargement in May 2004. The...
