The Manchester Evening News reports on the sentencing of a woman charged with racially aggravated common assault for an attack on an Asian Police Community Support Officer (PCSO) in Manchester city centre on 11 November 2015. Alicia Kenworthy, 38, pleaded guilty to racially aggravated common...
The election of the Mayor of London and 25 members of the Greater London Assembly on Thursday 5 May presents a renewed opportunity for Londoners of all backgrounds to engage with the governing institution for the capital and the elected representatives who hold the Mayor to account. London is home...
The Sunday Times (£) front page today boasts a feature story in the magazine supplement titled, What do British Muslims really think? The ‘really’ bit is a novel take on polls conducted about British Muslim attitudes to date suggesting perhaps that past polls have failed to uncover...
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The Hastings Observer reports that three people have been arrested on suspicion of racially aggravated assault following an incident involving a Muslim woman in a headscarf. A 25 year old Muslim woman, who wears a headscarf, was confronted by three men as she walked near the Hastings Museum. The...
The Independent reports on continuing research by Dr Nabil Khattab on UK labour market outcomes for British Muslims with an article on latest findings from research presented to the British Sociological Association annual meeting this week. Dr Khattab has previously released findingsrevealing...
The London Evening Standard discloses details from its Freedom of Information request to the Met police about hate crime in London and outcomes of police recorded offences. The paper notes the leap in police recorded racial and religious hate crime in the capital between 2011 and 2015 with...
The Daily Express gets back on its favourite hobby horse: the burqa and niqab with an article in today’s paper showing the results of the paper’s ‘snap survey’ in Blackburn which it claims is evidence of a ‘Burka sales BOOM’. The ‘snap survey’, it...
The Courier reports on a fine imposed on a teenager who posted a racially abusive tweet about footballer Faissal El Bakhtaoui who plays for Dunfermline Athletic. Lewis Thow, 19, admitted sending two tweets that were grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character via an...
BBC News reports that a former SNP councillor accused of sending a female Muslim colleague Islamophobic texts following the Paris attacks in November 2015 has been charged. Craig Melville, 35, was suspended from his post as aide to SNP deputy leader Stewart Hosie and was placed under investigation...
