Local paper, Bucks Free Press, reports on the launch of a police investigation after a racist post was added to the Facebook page of the Royal British Legion High Wycombe branch. Vice chairman of the branch, Kevin Taylor, reported the matter to the police last week after the image was ‘shared’...
The Mirror newspaper covers the changed fortunes of the British National Party in local government as it prepares for the local elections next month. From its heyday in the early noughties when the BNP held eight seats on Burnley council, its largest number, the party will attempt to cling on to...
Ian Cobain, Guardian journalist and author of Cruel Britannia: A Secret History of Torture, in a report in the paper today covers the investigations launched by Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service against MI5 and MI6 on allegations of complicity in torture. Investigations into the...
The Daily Mail and Independent both cover the investigation launched by British Transport Police after a video clip of a woman racially abusing an Asian man on London Underground was uploaded onto YouTube. The video was uploaded on April 11th and shows the woman hurl a tirade of racist abuse at a...
BBC News covers the debate in the House of Lords yesterday prompted by a question posed by Lord Dykes on the delays to the publication of the Chilcot Inquiry report. Lord Dykes tabled the question: “To ask Her Majesty’s Government whether they will hold discussions with the administrators of...
A second woman charged with spraying racist graffiti on the Shah Jahan mosque in Woking, and on other buildings in the vicinity, has been sentenced today reports the Surrey Advertiser. Georgina Gontar, 20, pleaded guilty to a breach of an Asbo, four offences of racially aggravated criminal damage...
There is some coverage today (Independent, Guardian and BBC News) about the resignation of Conservative councillor, John Cherry, who stoked a race row by suggesting in an interview with the Mail on Sunday that Pakistani students were unlikely to ‘rise to the top’ and that certain nationalities...
Ian Birrell in the Guardian today pens a column about the three Christians who are set to take their cases of ‘religious persecution’ to the European Court of Human Rights and anti-Muslim bigotry in the UK. The Daily Telegraph reports that papers will be lodged with the ECHR by lawyers acting...
Local paper, The Bristol Post, reports that the head of the English Defence League Bristol branch, Michael Bayliss, has been released after being arrested and bailed in connection with racist graffiti sprayed onto the walls of a mosque in the city last September. Bayliss and another man were...
The Daily Mail reports that a councillor and former local mayor who branded all Muslims ‘terrorists’ has apologized for her comments whilst undertaking equality and diversity training. Marjorie Snowden made the remarks during a training day on equalities. Trainer, Sue Bickle, complained to West...
