The Portsmouth News reports that hundreds of people are expected to march through the city in a joint English Defence League and Britain First protest against Muslim primary school, the Madani Academy on Saturday. Local community members are also expected to take part. The protest route has been...
The Guardian draws attention to the involvement of the financial ombudsman in an ongoing dispute between the civil rights organisation CAGE and retail banks Barclays and Co-op. CAGE, whose outreach director Moazzam Begg was released without charge last week, have suffered a number of setbacks to...
The Hartlepool Mail reports on the trial of Craig Anthony Owens at Hartlepool Magistrates’ Court for abusing a Muslim shop owner who came to his aid after Owens suffered a nose injury. Maboob Hussain the owner of Fatso’s Pizzeria in Hartlepool stepped out of his shop to offer Owens a tissue...
BBC News, ITV News, Channel 4 News, Sky News, The Guardian, The Independent, The Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, The Times, Daily Mirror and the New Statesman all covered the released without charge of Moazzam Begg, the Outreach Director of Cage, a Muslim human rights organisation. Some of the papers,...
BBC News and local paper, The Star, both report on the far right group, Britain First’s protest in Rotherham at the weekend and the launch of a petition by local businesses to prevent future disruption to trade. It is the third time a demonstration has been held in the city since the publication...
The Daily Mirror and Manchester Evening News both report on the trial of a former soldier who has pleaded guilty to terrorism offences after a nail bomb and The Anarchist Cookbook were discovered at his home. Ryan McGee, 19, pleaded guilty to possessing a document with information useful to...
Local paper the Southend Echo reports on a racist assault on a 12 year old Muslim boy in the town of Laindon last Monday evening. The young boy, Ubaid Khan, was out playing football when the ball rolled away and he ran to retrieve it. He was met by two men who verbally abused him […]
Dear Readers, On Monday 13 October the House of Commons will debate an important motion calling on the Government to recognise the state of Palestine. The motion to be debated and, crucially, voted upon, by MPs states: “That this House believes that the Government should recognise the state of...
BBC News, ITV News, Sky News, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Financial Times have all reported on the Home Secretary’s speech to the Conservative conference this year in which she put flesh on the bones of proposals outlined in the taskforce on Tackling Radicalisation...
The Daily Mail, The Daily Mirror, The Daily Express, The Daily Star, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, ITV News, and local papers Leicester Mercury and South Wales Evening Post all report that a KFC halal only branch refused to provide wet wipes to a customer because it was against ‘halal’...
