"An invasion of Romanian gypsy orphans has left a British town facingfinancial crisis," the paper reported. These children, all aged under18, some as young as 10, turned up on the steps of Slough Town Hallseeking help.
Other nationals picked up on the story but it was left to the SloughObserver to actually go and speak to an "invader". Seventeen-year-old"Bianca" explained she had crossed Europe in a lorry while pregnant toget to Britain. "I had a difficult life in Romania," she says. "Mychildhood was very unhappy."
There's a debate to be had on cost pressures faced by councils likeSlough, but it says something about the way this was covered by the factthe BNP web site links directly to the Mail's story.
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