BBC News reports on a hot potato that looks set to become a special interest issue in the coming election: religious slaughter. After UKIP waded in a couple of weeks ago to back a ban on religious slaughter, the issue is slowly edging to the fore to the deep consternation of Muslim and Jewish...
The Daily Mail, Daily Telegraph and The Times all report on a decision by a north London council to avoid pork products being served in primary schools in the area because the difficulties of managing dietary habits of non-pork eating pupils is too onerous to be managed as local budgets are...
Former Foreign Secretary, the Rt. Hon, Jack Straw MP uses his column in the local paper, the Lancashire Telegraph, to sing the praises of a local madrassah which is raising young Muslims to be “the best of British”. It was in 2006 that a column Straw wrote in the same newspaper unleashed a...
The Exeter Express and Echo reports on a police investigation into a leaflet distributed in the city of Exeter which contains inflammatory information about a proposed Muslim community centre. Police are dealing with the incident as a possible hate crime and are trying to identify the individual/s...
The Daily Mirror reports on the implosion of the British National Party’s electoral fortunes as it faces the prospect of being denied airtime for party political broadcasts during the upcoming election. According to rules applied by the BBC, a political party is required to field a minimum of 89...
The Daily Telegraph front page today affords space to the new report by the Muslim Council of Britain on British Muslims in Numbers. The report, which contains socio-economic, educational, health and employment statistics about British Muslims as extracted from the 2011 census also features in...
The Times (£) reports on the comments of Lord Woolf, a former Chief Justice of England and Wales, on causing gratuitous offence to religious minorities and observing the rule of law in respect of the right to freedom of religion. Speaking at the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies, Lord Woolf...
The Bolton News relates a political row that appears to have been sparked in the constituency of Bolton West after the local Labour MP, Julie Hilling, took part in a BBC North West programme on Sunday discussing the rise in anti-Semitism over the last year and was understood to have blamed UKIP for...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on a planned English Defence League demonstration in the town tomorrow when 25 men will appear before Calderdale magistrates’ court on a range of sex crime offences. The EDL have previously posted news reports from the Halifax Courier about the arrest of the 25...
