Local paper Times and Star reports that police in Cumbria are investigating a racist incident which occurred in Workington earlier this month. Racist comments were made towards a group of four Asian women in their twenties during the incident in Washington Square at approximately 8pm on Saturday...
Yorkshire Coast Radio reports on an ongoing police investigation into a suspected race hate incident in Scarborough. A man allegedly approached a house in the Queen’s Terrace area of the town at around 7pm on Sunday 23 April before shouting racist abuse at the residents. The man is also alleged...
The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) announced that if in power they would ban the face veil, prevent any more Islamic schools from being built and require any girls deemed at risk from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to have yearly medical checks. The proposals came as part of the...
The United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP) announced that if in power they would ban the face veil, prevent any more Islamic schools from being built and require any girls deemed at risk from Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) to have yearly medical checks. The proposals came as part of the...
BBC News reports on the launch of a new online hate crime hub by London mayor Sadiq Khan to support online hate crime victims in the capital. Five specially trained Metropolitan Police officers will make up the hub, which aims to improve police responses to online hate. The dedicated officers will...
Paul Golding, the leader of far-right group Britain First, has been condemned for posting a Twitter video which he claimed showed “a crowd of ‘moderate’ Muslims celebrating the Paris terror attack in London”. The video footage is real but Golding’s description is a complete fabrication...
The Birmingham Mail reports on the “shocking” racially aggravated attack of an 11-year-old boy playing on the street in the Acocks Green area of the city last Friday. The newspaper reports that the boy was innocently playing football with a friend when he was racially abused and beaten up. The...
Local newspaper News and Star reports on the arrest of a man for a racially aggravated offence outside an Indian restaurant in Carlisle. The incident is alleged to have occurred around 8.20pm on Sunday 16 April outside the Shaha Tandoori restaurant on Botchergate. The restaurant, currently owned by...
The Huffington Post and Independent carry news of Britain First’s “invasion” of an Islamic bookshop in Alum Rock in Birmingham, prompting a wave of support in response from the local community. Britain First, who have been banned from entering mosques in England and Wales and parts of Luton...
According to police, a family from County Down were targeted in two racist attacks in two days last week. Two adults and two children had to be escorted from their home after a car was set alight in the O’Donnell Park area of Castlewellan. Police said they are treating the blaze, which...
