The Daily Record, Scotsman and BBC News report on the SNP’s suspension of a Dundee City Councillor, Craig Melville, after allegations surfaced of his having sent anti-Muslim text messages to a Muslim colleague in the party. Melville, who has served as a local councillor from the SNP since 2009 is...
The Portsmouth News reports on the sentencing of a drunk driver who racially abused a waiter in an Indian restaurant before speeding off and driving the wrong way round a roundabout and part of the M275 last July. Jake McElvenny, 23, was arrested by police after the incident which happened on 7...
The Northern Echo reports on actions taken by a group of young Muslim women in Darlington to raise awareness of anti-Muslim hate crime committed in the wake of the Paris attacks last November. The local paper reports that Muslim student, Sharifah Rahman, an A level student at Queen Elizabeth Sixth...
The local news site, Southport Visitor, reports on a spate of vandalism in a Southport street where walls and pavements have been daubed with racially offensive graffiti. The local site reports that residents, who have previously complained about anti-social behaviour in the area, were faced with...
The Bristol Post and news site, Bristol 24/7, report on an alleged anti-Muslim incident in the city earlier today where a mosque had bacon sandwiches thrown at it and worshippers racially abused. A Facebook post on the BS3 Connect page relays details about the incident at the Bristol Jamia Mosque...
The Times front page today announces an op-ed in today’s paper by the Prime Minister, David Cameron, about English language competency among British Muslim women and the problem of radicalisation. Writing in the paper the PM remarks upon a number of things relating to British Muslim women whilst...
A takeaway owner who was savagely beaten outside his shop days after the Paris massacre on 13 November has told the Daily Record that he is to close up shop after 25 years. Mohammed Khalid sustained eight minutes of brutality when a group of thugs attacked him outside his shop in Methil, Fife in...
The Hereford Times reports on a fine imposed on a serving soldier who refused to pay a taxi driver full fare for a journey and made a racially aggravated remark. Christopher McMahon, 34, flagged down Asif Nazir’s cab on 23 October and asked to be driven to a destination. When Nazir arrived at the...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports on the court appearance of a man charged with sending an offensive or menacing communication after he made a drunken call to West Yorkshire Police threatening to blow up a mosque. Darren Wainman, 46, called the police station on November 15, two days after...
The Western Daily Mail reports that a Muslim mature student who was allegedly thrown off a National Express coach travelling from Bristol to London has had his fare refunded by the coach company but no apology has been forthcoming. Ibrahim Mohamed Ismail, 42, was allegedly asked to disembark from...
