Welcome to Britain... but please don't eat the fish: Immigrants get DOs and DON'Ts pack

The pamphlets will set out a series of rights and responsibilities to help arrivals "get to grips with what is expected of them, from national laws to local traditions".

Government officials said the advice would also set out guidelines on social norms such as tolerance and understanding of other faiths and communities.

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It follows police warnings that migrants from Eastern Europe with "different standards" are driving while over the legal limit and taking fish such as carp - a delicacy in Poland - from rivers without permission.

The leaflets are part of the Govern-ment's £50million response to a report from the Commission on Integration and Cohesion which had slated existing methods of promoting better race relations.

Town halls will be told by Communities Secretary Hazel Blears to hold at least one "Citizen Day" a year, bringing together migrants and established locals.

The events will celebrate local heroes and heritage, as well as promoting the British values of "respect for rule of law, tolerance and democracy", Mrs Blears said.

Councils and other public bodies will be told to slash the annual £100million cost of translating documents.

Migrants will be expected to place greater emphasis on learning English.

Guidance sent to councils will say "not being able to speak English is the biggest barrier to integration".

The plan includes specialist 'integration and cohesion teams' to help councils struggling to cope with new arrivals.

At least 700,000 have come from Eastern Europe alone over the past three years.

Police chiefs yesterday issued a dire warning of the dangers of not understanding the make-up of local communities.

At a special conference to discuss the impact of immigration on policing, Peter Fahy, Chief Constable of Cheshire, said: "If we get it wrong then it is bobbies that are on the front line.

"If we get it wrong and there are misunderstandings, violence breaks out, and it is police officers who often are taking the bricks and petrol bombs."

Of the measures to be announced today, information packs are likely to attract the most attention.

Migrants arriving in Cornwall are already presented with a pack, produced in English, Polish, Portuguese and Russian.

It warns sternly that domestic violence "is not acceptable in this country".

Critics are likely to point out the leaflets are merely stating the obvious, and migrants who believe it is acceptable to drive while drunk should not have been allowed in the UK in the first place.

But Mrs Blears said: "As a Government and a country, we must be honest there are issues we need to address as a result of new patterns of migration and ensure that we have the ideas and policies to tackle them over the next ten years."

In a letter to Darra Singh, the commission's chairman, she promised £50million over the next three years.

Councils will be given discretion over how they spend the cash.

The commission, set up by former Communities Secretary Ruth Kelly in the aftermath of the July 7 bombings two years ago, condemned many of the practices carried out for years in the name of anti-racism.

A further suggestion made by the commission was for teenagers to attend citizenship ceremonies side by side with immigrants in the year they complete GCSE exams.

They would be asked to go to their local town hall to pledge allegiance to the Queen, just as immigrants must do to win British citizenship.

This is to be considered separately as part of a review into British citizenship launched at Wembley Stadium yesterday by the former Attorney General, Lord Goldsmith.