The Birmingham Mail reports on the 80% drop in the number of stop and search procedures carried out by West Midlands Police since 2011. However, the figures show that Blacks and Asians are still more likely to be searched than their White counterparts. West Midlands Police have said the...
The Morning Star reports that Manchester City Council have been urged to discipline a councillor after he was found guilty of breaching the council’s code of conduct amid allegations of racism and Islamophobia. An official investigation led by Manchester City Council into Labour Councillor...
The Guardian front page today reports on legal action taken by parents of a pupil at a North London school after he was referred to a child protection officer for using the term “eco-terrorism” in a classroom discussion about environmental activists. The boy, who has not been named, is a pupil...
The Guardian reports on an correction published by the Mail on Sunday over an article accusing a “Muslim gang” of perpetrating an attack on an immigration enforcement van in East London. The newspaper article, which was published in July, was brought to the attention of press regulation...
The Express and Star reports that the cost of two right-wing protests by the English Defence League (EDL) and All Football Fans/Firms Against Islamisation (AFFFAI) cost West Midlands Police more than £100,000 in just two months. The paper reports that 700 staff from West Midlands Police were...
The Home Office today issued an announcement about the updating of the Prevent duty guidance to cover higher and further education institutions detailing thenew legal duty, which will come into force on Monday 21 September, requiring universities to clampdown on “hate preachers” on...
The Evening Standard reports on figures released by the London Mayor’s Office for Policing and Crime that show Scotland Yard have more than doubled the number of recruits from ethnic minority backgrounds after a ban on hiring officers who do not live in London was put into place. In the...
The Independent reports on reactions by London universities to their “naming and shaming” in yesterday’s announcement by the Home Office about “hate preachers” on campus and the new guidelines on external speakers which come into effect next Monday as part of newly enacted counter...
The Waltham Forest Guardian reports on the release of a photo of a ‘neo-Nazi’ wanted in connection with an incident of racially aggravated harassment after he called two Asian women “terrorists” outside Leytonstone tube station last month. The two women were leaving the station on the...
The Journal reports on a Muslim woman from Saudi Arabia who was allegedly assaulted on a bus in a racially motivated attack in Dublin, Ireland. Mashael Khayyat, 31, a PhD student at Trinity College Dublin, said she now felt unsafe leaving her home after being hit by a man travelling on the number...
