BBC News, ITV News and the Daily Mail all carry coverage of the sentencing of two men for an arson attack on Masjid-E-Noor in Gloucester in the days after the murder of Drummer Lee Rigby. Self-proclaimed fascist, Clive Ceronne, and fellow EDL supporter, Ashley Juggins, poured petrol around the door...
Local newspaper, the Halesowen News, reports on the arrest of a teenage gang on suspicion of racially aggravated assault and criminal damage after a spate of racial hate crimes in the area. The paper reports on incidents in recent months including a number of Asian pensioners who were beaten up,...
UKIP’s Lord Pearson tabled a debate on Islam in the House of Lords to discuss the basis for the statement made by the Prime Minister on 3 June:“There is nothing in Islam that justifies acts of terror”. The Prime Minister had made his comments following the brutal murder of Drummer Lee Rigby...
Asian Image reproduces the speech delivered by the Security Minister, James Brokenshire, during a visit to the Manchester Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre yesterday afternoon. The Minister’s visit coincided with the start of the trial of Michael Adebowale and Michael Adebolajo at the...
Local paper, The Bolton News, reports that council leaders at Bolton Council have issued an apology to parents after a batch of chocolate mousse containing pork gelatine was inadvertently served to Muslim primary school pupils. The incident occurred at the one school, Gaskell Community Primary...
A leaked government report seen by Channel 4 News reveals that the Al-Madinah free school in Derby was closed and subsequently put into ‘special measures’ due to issues of financial mismanagement by the governors and not, as widely reported for reasons of segregating schoolchildren or forcing...
The Independent on Friday covered the results of the survey commissioned by the Committee on Standards in Public Life which found that four in ten voters feel so “alienated” from Britain’s political parties that they will not consider voting for any of them at the next general election....
BBC News, ITV News and the Daily Mirror all report on the weekend demonstration by the English Defence League in Exeter in which four arrests were made and far right protestors vastly outnumbered by anti-racism campaigners. Over 700 anti-fascist supporters marched through Exeter to demonstrate...
Local paper, the Blackburn Citizen, reports on a spree of racist graffiti in the town over the weekend affecting a number of Asian-owned businesses in the Shear Brow area. Racist graffiti, vandalism and the letters ‘EDL’ were painted onto vehicles, homes and walls and lampposts along a mile...
Hugh Muir in the Guardian reflects on the story in Friday’s paper of a police officer attempting to recruit a Cambridge University student to spy on fellow students. A covert recording shows an officer attempting to entice a student into spying on activist students at the university in...
