Local paper, Dudley News, reports on the proceedings of a public meeting attended by police chiefs, local councillors, anti-racism campaigners and members of the local community to discuss the impact of repeat protests by the far right on the town’s residents and businesses. Chief Inspector Phil...
Kent Online reports that members of the far-right party, Britain First, have been accused of targeting restaurant owners in Dartford over the use of halal meat. Britain First leader, Paul Golding, was filmed in Dartford’s town centre last Friday saying that the organisation has started a...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus reports that a 14 year old boy has been arrested on suspicion of religiously aggravated criminal damage after the words “Shia Kafir” were found painted onto the wall of the Hussaini Islamic Mission in Little Horton at the weekend. The vandalism of the religious...
The Guardian reports that the BBC diversity adviser, Lady Grey-Thompson, has said that BBC may have to spend as much as £100m on improving diversity in the corporation and that those executives who do not help to deliver change should be fired. Grey-Thomson is a former Paralympian and a member of...
Bradford’s Telegraph and Argus report on an anti-Muslim incident involving graffiti daubed on to the walls of a Shia mosque in the city. The words “Shia Kafir” were sprayed on to the Hussainia Islamic Mission in Little Horton on Sunday afternoon. The graffiti has since been removed and the...
The Argus reports on a Muslim law graduate and member of Sussex Police and Crime Commissioner’s Youth Commission, Mageed Gharib, who says he has witnessed or personally experienced hate crime on a daily basis in Brighton. Gharib, 22, says he has been regularly confronted with prejudice dating...
BBC News carries a feature on black and minority-ethnic (BME) representation in Parliament and how ministers and MPs from ethnic monitories have made their mark at Westminster. Last November, PM David Cameron said in a speech at the GG2 Leadership Awards ceremony, which shortlists the most...
BuzzFeed News reports on a Facebook post describing an alleged incident of racial abuse suffered by a group of young British Muslim women which has gone viral. Yusra Ahmed, a student at the University of Leeds, described how she and a group of friends were left “humiliated and...
The Daily Telegraph reports on the comments by Director of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, Charles Farr, which openly contradict the remarks of the PM last week about British Muslims “quietly condoning” extremism. Farr was speaking at an event organised by Jewish News featuring...
BBC News and The Times report on a reprisal attack on a dentist in January 2015 in retaliation for the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby. Dr Sarandev Bhambra was attacked with a “hammer and 12in machete” in a “brutal and unprovoked attack” by Zack Davies, 26, in a Tesco store in Mold,...
