Telegraph: It has established a full-time presence in Calais for the first time in seven years, offering “information and support”.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR ) said the 2000 odd migrants sleeping rough in the area should be allowed to make an “informed decision” about their options.
“Most are motivated by economic or family reasons, but a few have fled violence or persecution and their well-being is of direct concern,” added a spokesman for the agency.
“Many have no idea about the situation back home, or about what they can expect in the UK.”
The agency originally left Calais in 2002 following an agreement reached between Britain and France to close the Sangatte Red Cross Centre.
It had acted as a magnet for thousands of illegal migrants heading for the UK .
Daily Mail: Britain’s violent crime record is worse than any other country in the European union, it is revealed today.
Official crime figures show the UK also has a worse rate for all types of violence than the U.S. and even South Africa - widely considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries.
The figures comes on the day new Home Secretary Alan Johnson makes his first major speech on crime, promising to be tough on loutish behaviour.
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Guardian: Senior prosecutors are calling for the laws on race hate crimes to be strengthened to counter the threat posed by the British National party.
The threshold for securing a conviction is so high that far-right activists are able to evade prosecution for material that many people would consider to be threatening and racist, according to sources at the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
Prosecutors blame the lack of convictions on the strict legal test, which requires showing an intention to “stir up racial hatred” or a likelihood that racial tension would be stirred up.
The offence, which was created under the Public Order Act, only applies to acts that take place or are witnessed in public so it does not cover leaflets that are pushed through people’s letter boxes. It also offers no protection against the publication of inaccurate or false information.
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DailyMail: At least 85 Islamic sharia courts are operating in Britain, a study claimed yesterday.
The astonishing figure is 17 times higher than previously accepted.
The tribunals, working mainly from mosques, settle financial and family disputes according to religious principles.They lay down judgments which can be given full legal status if approved in national law courts.
However, they operate behind doors that are closed to independent observers and their decisions are likely to be unfair to women and backed by intimidation, a report by independent think-tank Civitas said.
Commentators on the influence of sharia law often count only the five courts in London, Manchester, Bradford, Birmingham and Nuneaton that are run by the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal, a body whose rulings are enforced through the state courts under the 1996 Arbitration Act.
But the study by academic and Islamic specialist Denis MacEoin estimates there are at least 85 working tribunals.
Guardian: The government is investigating a possible ban on British National party members working as teachers in schools in a move that could challenge the legitimacy of the far-right party.
A source close to the schools secretary, Ed Balls, said there had been several meetings on the issue with teaching unions which are lobbying for a change in teachers’ contracts to prevent them from working if they are members of far-right groups including the BNP. The issue was being “actively looked at”, the source said.
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Daily Express: RESIDENTS are furious at moves to offer more than 240 jobs to eastern European workers near a town where unemployment is soaring.
The agricultural workers from Romania and Bulgaria will be housed in 41 caravans on a huge site which will boast “college campus-style” recreation.
They will also enjoy free bus trips to nearby towns and free bicycle hire to get to shops and pubs, all provided by the vegetable farm at Wrangle, near Boston, Lincolnshire.
Ola Wnuczek, a 6-years old Polish girl tries to find her mother. The mother Małgorzata Wnuczek left Poland in 2005 to work in Leicester, the United Kingdom. She has never been seen after 2006.
More information about the missing woman Małgorzata Wnuczek onwww.missingpeople.org.uk
Metro: Police are searching white people under terror laws simply to provide ‘racial balance’ to statistics, it has been revealed.
They are targeting people they have no real reason to suspect to avoid being accused of prejudice, said terror law watchdog Lord Carlile.
But their tactic of ’self-evidently unmerited searches’ was a waste of money, a breach of civil liberties and ‘almost certainly unlawful’, he added.
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Telegraph: In a letter from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, was told that he had less than a month to provide written undertakings that the party would abide by race relations legislation.
John Wadham, legal director of the Commission, said that the watchdog was concerned that the BNP’s constitution and membership criteria could be in breach of the law.
Party membership was said by the Commission to be restricted to those with white skin and a small number of other ethnic groups.
In a statement, the watchdog added: “This exclusion is contrary to the Race Relations Act which the party is legally obliged to comply with. The Commission therefore thinks that the BNP may have acted, and be acting, illegally.”
Telegraph: Last year the total number of applications for citizenship approved by the government was 129,310 compared with 37,010 when Labour came to power in 1997.
In the first three months of 2009, 54,615 bids for passports were approved – a 57 per cent rise on the same period in 2008, it was reported.
At the same rate, the number receiving passports – and with them the right to full benefits – this year is predicted to reach 220,000, smashing the record total of 164,540 set in 2007.
Telegraph: Students should be able to take brain boosting drugs like Ritalin to get better exam results, an expert has said.
John Harris, Professor of Bioethics at the University of Manchester, said that it was “not rational to be against human enhancement” and that the drugs could help people become better educated.
“Smart drugs” are increasingly being used by students to improve their exam grades.
Telegraph: Phyllip Cadwallader, 43, had called in to light a candle in memory of his late mother before competing in a running race.
He was dressed in a shirt, trousers and pair of brogues, but aroused attention because of he has a shaven head, tattoos and was carrying a bag.
BBC Radio 4 was about to start its Sunday worship programme marking the 80th anniversary of the birth of Anne Frank who died in a Nazi concentration camp at the age of 15.
Mr Cadwallader, a former autism support worker, was initially told to sit at the back of Blackburn Cathedral, before being told to leave by the Dean.
After he left, he was approached by police who had been called over suspicions that he was a sympathiser of the far-right BNP.
An officer searched his rucksack, which contained his running gear, before he was allowed to go and take part in his race.
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Sunday Express: BRITAIN’S second largest police force has been accused of discriminating against white men by setting itself targets to recruit and promote more black and female officers.
West Midlands police chiefs have pledged to increase the proportion of new recruits from “black or minority ethnic” groups to 12 per cent and women to 42 per cent.
Under the new arrangements, agreed yesterday by the local police authority, the targets will grow by two per cent every year until 2012.
The force has been warned it is walking into a potentially illegal and costly minefield of political correctness.
London Evning Standart: The British National Party will be forced to admit black and Jewish members under the Government’s new Equalities Bill, ministers revealed today.
Commons leader Harriet Harman said thenew legislation would make it illegal to have a “whites-only” political party in the UK.
Under the BNP’s constitution, membership is “strictly defined” as “indigenous Caucasian”.
Ms Harman said the bill will outlaw such restrictions in a bid to stop “apartheid-style” politics being imported to Britain.
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The election of two British National Party Members of the European Parliament has forever smashed the media lie about the party and is a defining moment in British history, Nick Griffin, MEP has said.
Speaking exclusively to BNP News this morning after a night of election results which saw the party catapult to centre stage in European politics and the world’s media, Mr Griffin said the victory in the face of the most outrageous lies and mass media slurs was tribute to the steadfastness and determination of the voters of Britain.
“Tonight has shown that the mettle of the men and women who created the British Empire, who fought like lions in the furthest corners of the globe, who sacrificed like titans in Flanders, who endured the Blitz and who stormed the beaches of Normandy, is still alive.
“The far left and the Tory types who thought that the British spirit was dead and that they could walk all over 10,000 years of history, tradition, culture and heritage, were wrong. The British lion has awoken, and its roar will now be heard throughout the world,” Mr Griffin said.
Unite Against Facism who organised the demonstration, says one of the group was hit when a car, driven by a BNP member, “drove at” two protesters.
A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said officers had received an allegation of common assault and were investigating reports of a road collision.
Mr Griffin told SkyNews it was he and his colleagues who had been subjected to “serious physical harm” by the protesters.
“I make no apologies for having a small group of security,” he said.
“I would rather it was done with the police, but the police, no doubt on orders from the Home Office, stood on the other side of the street.
“We were all kicked and punched.
“If, in their haste, one of the mob got in front of our car, I’m afraid that is their problem, not ours.”
Mr Griffin was forced to abandon a news conference outside Parliament after the disruption by UAF.
The newly-elected MEP for the North West of England, arrived on College Green in front of Parliament with fellow BNP MEP Andrew Brons just after 2.30pm.
Mr Griffin started by attacking articles from today’s newspapers that criticised him and his party.
He had only been speaking for a few minutes when the protesters appeared, chanting and waving banners reading: “Stop the fascist BNP.”
Eggs were thrown at Mr Griffin and his bodyguards bundled him away through the crowd.
Times: More than 20,000 people with HIV are unaware they are carrying the virus and are infecting thousands of others, setting a devastating health “timebomb”, medical experts have warned.
Senior doctors have accused the Department of Health of failing to take the spread of HIV seriously and neglecting to test enough people in high-risk groups, including gay men and heterosexual black Africans.
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July 3rd, 2009
Telegraph: It has established a full-time presence in Calais for the first time in seven years, offering “information and support”.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR ) said the 2000 odd migrants sleeping rough in the area should be allowed to make an “informed decision” about their options.
“Most are motivated by economic or family reasons, [...]
June 29th, 2009
Telegraph: Britain is no longer a Christian nation and the Church of England could die out within a generation, an Anglican bishop has warned.
The Rt Rev Paul Richardson said declining church attendance and the rise in multiculturalism meant that “Christian Britain is dead“.
He criticised his fellow bishops for failing to appreciate the scale of the [...]
June 11th, 2009
Source: bnp.org.uk.
The election of two British National Party Members of the European Parliament has forever smashed the media lie about the party and is a defining moment in British history, Nick Griffin, MEP has said.
Speaking exclusively to BNP News this morning after a night of election results which saw the party catapult to centre stage [...]
May 30th, 2009
Times: The ban on women serving in frontline infantry roles alongside male soldiers is to be reviewed, the Ministry of Defence announced yesterday.
The last time that this issue was examined in any official capacity was in 2002 when the Service chiefs and ministers decided to maintain the policy of using only male personnel in close-combat [...]
May 20th, 2009
Daily: The Muslim community can make a crucial difference in keeping BNP bigots out of office.
Make sure you use your vote to stop them on Thursday 4 June.
The fascists of the British National Party (BNP) are a threat to everyone. But they are particularly dangerous for Muslims living in this country. That is [...]
September 3rd, 2008
The purpose of documenting this heartsearing reality is to give voice to the hundreds of thousands of Zimbabweans who have lost everything. - Eric “Harry” Harrison, farmer and author of Jambanja
“War veterans” storming Eric Harrison’s farm Maioio, in
Zimbabwe 2004. Photo: Eric Harrison
Parked in his drive was a small blue utility truck, which had ghosted in [...]
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Guardian: Senior prosecutors are calling for the laws on race hate crimes to be strengthened to counter the threat posed by the British National party.
Telegraph: Britain is no longer a Christian nation and the Church of England could die out within a generation, an Anglican bishop has warned.
Metro: Police are searching white people under terror laws simply to provide ‘racial balance’ to statistics, it has been revealed.
Telegraph: In a letter from the Equality and Human Rights Commission, Nick Griffin, the BNP leader, was told that he had less than a month to provide written undertakings that the party would abide by race relations legislation.
Telegraph: Last year the total number of applications for citizenship approved by the government was 129,310 compared with 37,010 when Labour came to power in 1997.
Telegraph: Phyllip Cadwallader, 43, had called in to light a candle in memory of his late mother before competing in a running race.
Unite Against Facism who organised the demonstration, says one of the group was hit when a car, driven by a BNP member, “drove at” two protesters.
Times: More than 20,000 people with HIV are unaware they are carrying the virus and are infecting thousands of others, setting a devastating health “timebomb”, medical experts have warned.