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Immigration/Morecambe Bay

Questioned about the warning the Home Office had received last year about the cockle-pickers at Morecambe Bay, the PMOS said that as the Immigration Service had made clear, it had referred only to one operation. Both the Immigration Service and the police had been involved in other operations in the Morecambe Bay area, including one in August 2003. Consequently, the assumption that they had been ignoring the problem was false.

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