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Sold out! Flights and buses full as Romanians and Bulgarians head for the UK

One airline has even doubled number of flights to meet demand
Some one-way tickets are selling for up to �3,000 each
Buses leaving Bulgarian capital of Sofia until January 9 are fully booked

By Arthur Martin and John Stevens

PUBLISHED: 00:05, 31 December 2013 | UPDATED: 09:08, 31 December 2013

Bulgarians and Romanians were last night preparing to travel to Britain as restrictions on working here are lifted tomorrow.

Almost all flights from Romania to England are full � even though one airline doubled the number to meet demand � with one-way tickets selling for up to �3,000 each.

And all tickets for seats on buses leaving the Bulgarian capital of Sofia until January 9 have been snapped up.

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Almost all flights from Romania to England are full - even though one airline doubled the number to meet demand - with one-way tickets selling for up to �3,000 each

Almost all flights from Romania to England are full - even though one airline doubled the number to meet demand - with one-way tickets selling for up to �3,000 each

he central bus station in Sofia, Bulgaria where passengers will start travelling to Britain and European destinations

he central bus station in Sofia, Bulgaria where passengers will start travelling to Britain and European destinations

All tickets for seats on buses leaving the Bulgarian capital of Sofia until January 9 have been snapped up

All tickets for seats on buses leaving the Bulgarian capital of Sofia until January 9 have been snapped up

Brochure: A poster promoting discounted tickets to the UK displayed at the central bus station in Sofia, Bulgaria

Brochure: A poster promoting discounted tickets to the UK displayed at the central bus station in Sofia, Bulgaria

Wizz Air, the low cost airline that serves Eastern Europe, has doubled the number of flights it is offering. However, because of the demand, even these no-frills flights are being sold at around �300 each.

At the central bus station in Sofia, a large poster showing Big Ben, a London bus and traditional red phone box advertise the bus routes to a new life here.

The poster reads: �Regular routes to London, Germany, Spain, France, Luxembourg and Greece� and offers a 5 per cent discount for booking online with agent, Balkan Horn.

All seats on two British Airways flights from Sofia to London Heathrow next Sunday and Monday � each carrying more than 152 passengers � have been sold.

When controls imposed in 2005 are lifted tomorrow, 29million from the two countries will gain the right to work in Britain.

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While some of those coming here have expressed a desire to find �any job they can�, messages on internet forums show others making inquiries about benefits.

One user of a popular website wrote: �My husband and I want to have a child in the UK. We want to know what kind of benefits we can apply for. We are interested in receiving a council house.�

A mother described how she is hoping to move her family to the UK in the hope of claiming child tax credits � while a man spoke of his desire to be given a house.

A pregnant Romanian woman said: �I have read on this website I can get �190 a week from the British government from the 25th week of pregnancy. Could somebody help me with the documents?�

Others wrote of their hopes to give birth in a British hospital.

Bulgarians look to Britain as immigration rules are relaxed
When controls imposed in 2005 are lifted tomorrow, 29million from the two countries will gain the right to work in Britain

When controls imposed in 2005 are lifted tomorrow, 29million from the two countries will gain the right to work in Britain

A leaflet from one of the travel agent chalets at the station in Sofia, Bulgaria

A leaflet from one of the travel agent chalets at the station in Sofia, Bulgaria

A pregnant woman wrote: �Can I give birth in the UK for free given that neither my husband nor I have the correct papers? Will we get British citizenship for our child?�

Aleksandra Dzhongova, who runs a legitimate employment agency in Sofia, said other firms had been set up with the specific intention of helping immigrants understand Britain�s welfare system, rather than filling job vacancies.

One firm offered to help its Romanian clients avoid paying fines issued by HM Revenue & Customs.

A source at a firm helping Romanians find work in Britain told the Mail: �There are already many using these social benefits without necessarily having an urgent need for them.

'I hope Romanians in the UK do not tell those from home that they are entitled to claim benefits because everyone will try to claim.

�If you ask Romanians why are they claiming benefits they say, �If it is allowed by the law, then why not?� They have seen the Brits claiming and other nationalities too, so they want to join the queue.�

Wizz Air, the low cost airline that serves Eastern Europe, has doubled the number of flights it is offering

While some of those coming here have expressed a desire to find 'any job they can', messages on internet forums show others making inquiries about benefits

While some of those coming here have expressed a desire to find 'any job they can', messages on internet forums show others making inquiries about benefits

The Daily Mail asked Priority Point, which gives Romanian migrants advice on settling in the UK, whether they could help a Romanian woman with two children with no legal documents to claim benefits while looking for a job as a housekeeper. A member of staff said they could, for a free.

The employee said: �There is no problem. But first she will need to apply for a national insurance number and then she can apply to receive money for the kids.�

When asked if the company will fill out the paper work, the employee replied: �Yes, we will do. For the documents for claiming child benefits you�ll be charged �70.�

Travel agencies in Sofia as well as the Romanian capital of Bucharest reported huge demand for tickets. At the Central Bus Station in Sofia, travel agent Svetlanka Beaucheva said: �Everything is booked until Thursday, January 9. There are no seats left.�

Sixteen coaches carrying more than 50 passengers each will make the 1,500-mile journey by road to London from Sofia next month.

A manager at coach company Karats Eurolines said prices had gone up due to the high demand.
Another, at coach firm Balkan Horn, said: �It is very busy, many people want to travel to England, especially with the change in EU rules. But everything is booked up, it�s hard to get there.�

Ion Prioteasa, president of Dolj county in the south of Romania, claimed that the numbers travelling from there to the UK will double to 70,000 next year.

SAY GOOD BYE TO THE UK, TELL YOUR ELECTED POLITICIANS THEY WONT GET THEIR JOB BACK AT NEXT ELECTION, UKIP WILL GET RID OF IMMIGRANTS, GET US OUT OF THE EU AND SEND TERRORIST MUSLIM RELIGION BACK TO MIDDLE EAST WHERE THEY BELONG

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Roma already in Britain 'are defecating on people's doorsteps' says top Tory council leader as she warns of burden that Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants will place on public services

Philippa Roe of Westminster City Council says council taxpayers will face rising bills from Bulgarian and Romanian immigration
Claims that Roma immigrants have been begging aggressively and behaving in an unsanitary way
Tens of thousands of Eastern Europeans expected in UK from tomorrow
Police boss says Romanians are already most likely to be criminals

By Hugo Gye

PUBLISHED: 16:30, 31 December 2013 | UPDATED: 16:43, 31 December 2013

A leading Conservative has warned that council taxpayers face rising costs from the influx of Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants set to start tomorrow - and claims that Roma are already causing trouble by begging aggressively and defecating in public.

Philippa Roe, leader of Westminster City Council, said that local authorities had 'no idea' how many Eastern Europeans would come to Britain after immigration restrictions are lifted on January 1.

And a police commissioner in the Midlands revealed that more crimes are committed by Romanians than by any other group of foreign nationals in his area even before the rules have changed.

Many Tories and immigration campaigners have been warning for month that tens of thousands of Romanian and Bulgarian citizens are set to come to Britain when laws banning them from are repealed tomorrow.
Trouble: Roma being moved on by police at Marble Arch ahead of restrictions being lifted on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants

Trouble: Roma being moved on by police at Marble Arch ahead of restrictions being lifted on Romanian and Bulgarian immigrants

Ms Roe said today that some members of the Roma community have already been causing trouble in Central London with their aggressive and unhygienic behaviour.

'You've only got to wander around Marble Arch at 7.30 in the morning to see the camps,' she told The World at One on BBC Radio 4.

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Sold out! Flights and buses full as Romanians and Bulgarians head for the UK

'We have people walking out of their front door to find people sleeping on their front doorsteps, people defecating on their front doorstep - it's extremely unpleasant and it goes with the very aggressive begging and pickpocketing and other sorts of crime in the area which affects both residents and tourists.

'It's this minority one is really concerned about, but it is this minority that has this really big impact.'

She added: 'We have been trying hard to make sure we are prepared but one of the issues we face is we just have no idea how many people are going to come to London and draw on our resources.'
Warning: A council leader has said that even before the expected immigration influx there have been problems with Roma sleeping rough and behaving in anti-social ways

Warning: A council leader has said that even before the expected immigration influx there have been problems with Roma sleeping rough and behaving in anti-social ways

ROMANIA APPOINTS NEW CONSUL IN BRISTOL BRINGING TOTAL NUMBER IN BRITAIN TO EIGHT

The Romanian government has appointed a new consul to an eighth British city ahead of an expected influx of immigrants from the Eastern European country.

Razvan Constantinescu became honorary consul officer to Bristol this month, shortly before the UK planned to open its borders to Romanians on January 1.

The country already has representatives in Belfast, Cardiff, Inverness, Leeds, Liverpool, Morpeth and Southampton, as well as the ambassador based in London.

Mr Contantinescu, who works at Bristol City Council fighting human trafficking, says he is keen to establish direct flights from Bristol to Romania as well as boosting business links.

He insisted that fewer of his countrymen would migrate to the UK than is often predicted, pointing out that thousands are already here.

'Most of the Romanians who wanted to come over to Britain to set up in business, to explore working opportunities, have already done so,' Mr Contantinescu said.

Shortly before Christmas, the Government rushed through new rules to ban immigrants from receiving unemployment benefits for their first three months in the country.

However, Ms Roe called for this limit to be extended even further, saying: 'I would much rather it had been a year, if not two years.'

Staffordshire's Police and Crime Commissioner said that Romanian criminals were more prolific than those from any other foreign country and expressed fears that the problem would only get worse.

Matthew Ellis said that he was seeking talks with Home Secretary Theresa May in a bid to mitigate the impact of a large number of poor immigrants arriving at the same time.

It is understood that 981 Romanians were arrested in Staffordshire between April 2010 and September 2013, followed by 967 Polish nationals and 636 Lithuanians.

In total, 7.5 per cent of all arrests in the county involved foreign nationals.

'I am currently talking to the chief constable about the new changes,' Mr Ellis said today. 'This is an area where Stoke-on-Trent is seeing a significant rise in the number of people who are not only being placed there by the state as asylum seekers but also foreign nationals moving there.

'It's clear that their cultures are slightly different and their expectations are slightly different.'
Concerns: Philippa Roe of Wesminster City Council says she does not know how many new immigrants to expect

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MigrationWatch UK, which campaigns against unrestricted immigration, has claimed that Britain will be the most lucrative destination in the EU for new immigrants despite the new rules on benefits.

'Britain's generous benefits system acts as a pull factor for migrants from across Europe,' said chairman Sir Andrew Green.

'There must now be a renegotiation of the benefit system in the EU which was designed before 100million people in much poorer countries joined the EU.

But business leaders have welcomed the impending arrival of Bulgarians and Romanians, saying it will help boost the workforce and strengthen the economy.

The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry said that 55 per cent of its members believe immigration has had a positive impact on the capital.

YES THIS 55% ARE FOREIGNERS WHO SHOULDNT BE HERE ANY WAY,