Monday, April 07, 2008

How migrants fuel Britain's boom town / Guardian, 6 April 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/apr/06/immigration.britishidentity?gusrc=rss&feed=politics
"David Rose has spent the past two months investigating the effect of immigration on one town, Slough in Berkshire. And while last week's report by a House of Lords committee found that immigration has no economic benefit, he has come to a very different conclusion. The local economy is booming, property prices are rising, schools and hospitals are working well. Is this town showing the rest of the country the way forward?"