BBC News reports on public order and racial harassment charges brought against 13 men following arrests made during a mosque protest in Sunderland last year. A mosque planning application by the Sunderland based Pakistan Islamic Centre has attracted repeat protests by far right groups. The protests...
Former CIA officer, Valerie Plame, and US diplomat, Joe Wilson, in a guest column in The Guardian today reflect on the ‘dodgy dossier’ and the Bush Administration’s claims of ‘weapons of mass destruction’ which prompted the US-led invasion of Iraq ten years ago. Noting the dissonance...
Greater Manchester Police and Manchester City Council have issued advice to the city’s residents ahead of a planned demonstration by the English Defence League on Saturday 2nd March, to ensure the protest “causes the minimum of disruption to all members of the community”. The advice issued...
BBC News reports on the sentencing of a man who viciously attacked a 16 year old girl last November, knocking her to the ground with a punch to the head. Michael Ayoade, who has been sentenced to four years imprisonment, pleaded guilty to assault occasioning actual bodily harm. BBC News reports...
The Stationery Office has launched an iPad App for Hansard, making it even easier for iPad users to read transcripts of parliamentary debates online. Details can be found at the App Store here.
BBC News reports on the detection of horse DNA in halal burgers supplied to schools in Lancashire. From BBC News: “Frozen beef products have been withdrawn from schools in Lancashire after horse DNA was found in halal beef burgers. “Earlier in February, Food Standards Agency tests found...
The Huddersfield Examiner reports on the trial outcome of a woman arrested for an altercation involving an Asian man during the English Defence League protest in Dewsbury last June. Kirklees magistrates’ court heard that the woman, Karen Marsden, “joined in offensive chanting as part of the EDL...
Islamophobia Watch covers the trial of two women arrested for their part in a racially aggravated attack on a Kurdish family in Plymouth. The women, who joined an English Defence League meeting earlier, were among a group of people who attacked the Kurdish family abusing them with taunts such as...
BBC News reports that police made four arrests during the English Defence League protest in Cambridge on Saturday while local paper, Cambridge News, details that a 56 year old man and 23 year old have been charged with “racially aggravated public order offence and assaulting a police officer”...
BBC News today covers news on the closing of Friday prayer facilities for Muslim students by City University in London. The University claims to have locked the room used by Muslim students because students “had refused to submit the proposed content of sermons [khutbah] to the university before...
