The Edinburgh Evening News reports on a new initiative by Police Scotland to help improve the reporting of hate crime on public transport in Edinburgh. A new “transport charter” is set to be unveiled across the city to encourage witnesses to report hate crimes and improve the reporting rate of...
The Star, South Yorkshire Times and ITV News report on the arrest and bail of three men for assault and a racially aggravated public order offence following the protest by far right group Britain First in Rotherham on Saturday. The far right group returned to the city to protest at the child sex...
Local paper the Spenborough Guardian reports on a police appeal after a man was verbally abused and his car kicked in a suspected racist hate crime in Batley, West Yorkshire. The man was returning to his car with his family on Sunday evening, 30 August, at around 10.15pm when three men approached...
A number of newspapers trail the BBC Inside Out programme which will be broadcast tonight on Islamophobia and anti-Muslim hate crime in the capital. The Independent, Metro, London Evening Standard and The Guardian all report on the 70% increase in Islamophobic hate crime in London between July 2014...
The Daily Post reports on a “completely unprovoked” racist attack on an Asian teenager in broad daylight by a gang of youths in North Wales which has left the victim with facial injuries. The 17 year old victim was walking up Richmond Hill in Holyhead on Tuesday 1 September 2015 at 11.50am when...
The London Evening Standard reports on the apology advanced by Labour Mayoral candidate, Dame Tessa Jowell, to fellow contender Sadiq Khan MP, after a volunteer in her campaign told a party supporter not to back Khan in the Mayoral contest because his Muslim background made him “a liability”....
The Guardian reports on calls by the National Union of Students (NUS) to boycott the government’s “chilling” counter-radicalisation strategy saying it curtails freedom of expression and could increase Islamophobia on campuses. The national students’ body has launched the...
The Teesside Gazette reports on a Gurdwara which has been vandalised with the words “White power”, “death to Allah” and “Die Muslims, die” sprayed onto the walls of the Sikh temple in Thornaby. The Shri Guru Nanak Gurdwara and Sikh Community Centre on Allensway...
The Evening Standard reports that tens of thousands of Londoners could disappear from the electoral roll and lose their right to vote in next year’s mayoral and London Assembly elections as a result of changes brought forward on voter registration rules. Conservative ministers have been...
The Guardian reports on figures obtained from the Football Association (FA) and anti-racism campaign group Kick It Out which show that racist abuse in football is on the rise. Reports of alleged racist abuse and other discriminatory abuse made to the FA last season rose sharply to 887 incidents at...
