BBC News, ITV News and the South Wales Argus all report on the resignation of Donald Grewar, UKIP’s candidate for the Newport East parliamentary seat. Grewar was challenged by the UKIP party chairman for Newport East for posts uploaded onto his Facebook page which expressed support for the...
Local paper, the Wharfedale Observer, relates news of an incident of anti-Muslim and anti-Semitic graffiti sprayed onto council flats in the town of Otley in Yorkshire. The graffiti is said to have appeared at the weekend, on Saturday 30 January, with a slogan “directing violence” towards...
The Counter-terrorism and Security Bill (CTSB) has been presented against the backdrop of the terrorist threat posed by ISIL, reports of British citizens travelling abroad to engage in ‘terror-related activity’; and the raising of the domestic terror threat in response to perceived threats from...
There is some coverage in the papers and on ITV News of the Muslim Council of Britain’s ‘visit my mosque’ initiative. The Daily Mirror reports that the initiative comes as British Muslims seek to dispel “tensions around terrorism”. The paper, along with others, relates the unfortunate...
The Guardian, Independent and Daily Telegraph report on further criticism levelled at the Home Secretary over the plans to introduce a statutory duty on universities compelling them to abide by Guidance on the Prevent strategy. The plans were criticised last week by former Director of Public...
The Times reports on a letter sent by the head of the charities chief executives body, ACEVO (Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations), to the Cabinet Secretary, seeking clarity on the re-appointment of William Shawcross as chair of the Charity Commission nine months before...
The Bristol Post features an interview with the Police and Crime Commissioner for Avon and Somerset, Sue Mountstevens, as police forces ready for the publication of stop and search data in constabulary regions on the crime mapping website, www.police.uk. In July 2013, HM Inspectorate of...
Bradford’s local paper, the Telegraph and Argus, has published details of a man sought by police for anti-Islamic slurs uttered on a bus in the city. West Yorkshire Police have released a CCTV image of the man who is being sought for a public order offence after he boarded the 576 Halifax to...
Local paper, the Cambridge News, reports on the 12 week suspended sentence handed down to a former marine and ex-UKIP member who sent “grossly offensive” emails to a Cambridge mosque. Ian Couch, 54, was arrested after the mosque secretary Abdul Muquith, who used the details in the...
