http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/5193018.stm

Ministers are set to admit they may have significantly underestimated the number of failed asylum seekers living in Britain….a trawl of files in the Immigration and Nationality department has produced between 400,000 and 450,000 case files.

These are the case files that are known about - the actual figure may be over 2 million.

Interesting reading:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/uk/2001/destination_uk/default.stm
http://www.migrationwatch.co.uk/

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I was liking Italy, after my Sicilian adventure. And I was enjoying the language too. Far more than French. In spite of Tom and Kate Walker, the couple from hell who do the dialogue.

But anyway, enough waffle. Until I get time to write it, see The Gallery

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