The Times (£), Financial Times and The Guardian all report on the pending announcement that allegations of the UK’s complicity in rendition and torture in years following 9/11 are to be conducted by the Intelligence and Security Committee
The Home Office yesterday published a report on hate crimes in England and Wales drawing on statistics from the Crime Survey for England and Wales 2010/11
A pig’s head was wedged on a fence spike outside an Islamic school, the Madani Academy, The Portsmouth News reports. A Hampshire Constabulary spokesman confirmed local police had received a report of the incident saying an investigation was underway into “…a suspicious incident...
Local papers, The Enquirer and Maldon and Burnham Standard report on the release of a CCTV image of a man sought by Essex Police in connection with an incident of criminal damage to a mosque in Chelmsford. Police were alerted after worshippers arriving at the mosque for early morning prayers...
Regional paper, the Birmingham Mail, reports on the sentencing of seven men involved in the outbreak of violent disorder during an English Defence League demonstration in Walsall in September 2012. West Midlands police trawled through hours of CCTV footage to identify individuals wanted in...
There was coverage in the Daily Mirror, Birmingham Mail and the Evening Gazette of an incident at Middlesbrough football club where a ‘minority’ of fans allegedly ripped up a copy of the Qur’an during a club match against Birmingham City. The police are treating...
The London Evening Standard reports on the sentencing of a teenager for an attack on a 79 year old Muslim pensioner in Uxbridge in July. Fraser Giles, 17, was sentenced for attacking the man who was on his way to perform late evening prayers at the mosque. Giles hurled racist abuse at the elderly...
The Daily Telegraph today returns to the subject of sex segregation in universities with an editorial arguing that the practice is “entirely alien to 21st-century British culture” and that “Universities UK needs to review its guidelines, urgently.” The editorial, moreover, cites...
There is more in the news today about gender segregation and university campuses with the Daily Mail covering the protest outside Universities UK’s offices in central London and Nick Cohen on the Spectator site blogging about a news item in yesterday’s edition of BBC Radio 4’s Today...
There has been some coverage in the press (see Mail on Sunday, Daily Telegraph and The Guardian) of UKIP leader Nigel Farage’s defence of councillor Victoria Ayling’s comments about immigration in a video recently published by the Mail on Sunday. Despite being “odd” Nigel Farage said that...
