The Sunderland Echo reports that a man has been charged with racially aggravated criminal damage after an attack on a disused pub that is to be converted into a Muslim education centre. Graham French, 28, will appear before magistrates on 22 January for the attack in Shotton Colliery, County...
The Independent and BBC News today draw attention to the NSPCC’s ChildLine report “Can I Tell You Something?” which reviews the work of the children’s charity in regards to its counselling sessions with children and young people over the period 2012/13. During 2012/13, ChildLine...
Our letters to the Press Complaints Commission in relation to articles appearing in The Times and the Daily Mail newspapers in December can be here and here, respectively.
The Independent, The Sun (£), the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror all report today and on the release of new data on popular attitudes on immigration. The poll was carried out by the research institute that runs the annual British Attitudes Survey and conducted for a BBC 2 programme, The Truth...
The parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights (JCHR) upholds views expressed in its initial report criticising provisions in the Government’s Anti-Social Behaviour, Crime and Policing Bill regarding Injunctions to Prevent Nuisance and Annoyance (IPNA), Criminal Behaviour Orders (CBO) and the...
In an interview with The Times (£) on Friday, Lord Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats and the politician in charge of the party’s 2015 election campaign, argues that an increasing lack of public trust in national institutions is deterring people from voting with some turning to...
Local paper, The Star, reports on the admission by South Yorkshire constabulary of its inability to record the number of anti-Muslim hate crimes because its crime management system “does not facilitate the recording of anti-Muslim hate crime separately to other forms of religious hate...
The Digital Journal reports on a plea to supporters by far right organisation, Britain First, to determine whether the movement should enter the European elections in May. On its website appeal to supporters, former BNP Councillor, leader of the English National Resistance and Chairman of...
There is some coverage in the media on UKIP’s increase in party membership and its expected growth over the next year, ahead of the European Parliament elections in May. Party leader, Nigel Farage, in a New Year message in today’s Daily Telegraph writes about his expectation of...
