A story on the MailOnline website at the weekend reporting on the announcement that Debenhams will sell hijabs as part of a new range of Muslim clothing to be launched in its stores from May, itself became a story after readers posted numerous comments online criticising the department store and...
The Burnley Express reports on a woman who has been fined for hurling racist abuse at a Muslim taxi driver and assaulting a police officer following a night out in Burnley. Jessica Horne, 26, insulted taxi driver Fiyaz Ahmed “20 times” and spat at him during a rant at a taxi office in...
The Mirror reports that UKIP’s immigration spokesman, John Bickley, has been “slammed for retweeting an outrageous cartoon” which echoed 1960s racism by using a political slogan not dissimilar to that used in the notorious Smethwick by-election in 1964. Bickley retweeted a cartoon...
The Torquay Herald Express reports on the guilty plea of a woman who committed a racist offence against a male victim outside a Muslim-owned restaurant in Teignmouth. Candice Ann Graham, 35, pleaded guilty to threatening the victim with racially aggravated words or behaviour with an intent to...
The Manchester Evening News reports on the jailing of a man who subjected a fellow passenger to “vile and disgusting racist abuse” on a bus in Salford last year. Jamie McMillan, 29, had been returning from seeing his ailing grandfather in hospital when he launched the shocking rant...
Local news sources, Lancashire Telegraph and BlogPreston, report on two suspected hate incidents at the Jamea mosque on Clarendon Street in Preston last week. BlogPreston, which has been passed CCTV footage of the alleged incidents reports that on the evening of Wednesday 8 February, “a...
The Courier reports on the community order handed to a man who abused his Muslim convert stepfather via Facebook’s messaging system and telling him to “go and eat bacon”. Dean McAndrew, 28, pleaded guilty in December to using a public communications network to send grossly offensive or...
The Lancashire Telegraph reports on the trial of a decorator who was found guilty of daubing racist abuse and drawing a pig’s head on the walls of a Muslim homeowner’s property in Blackburn. The paper reports Stephen Gary Oliver, 54, drew the offending images and then papered over the markings...
Local news website London News Online reports on an initiative launched by Queen’s Park Rangers football club to tackle hate crime and abuse in West London. The site reports that the club’s project follows rising concerns over racist abuse in the area. A Muslim woman was reportedly spat...
The Sun reports on a police appeal to trace a man who plastered “racist and anti-Semitic” stickers across London Underground stations last month. British Transport Police have released an image of the man they wish to speak to in connection with the sighting of the offensive stickers which...
