Iraqi’s throat cut in race attack
An Iraqi youth slashed with a broken bottle in an “extremely violent” racist attack nearly died, police say.
The 18-year-old was rushed to hospital with severe lacerations to his neck after he was attacked in Commercial Road, Portsmouth, on Saturday night.
Hampshire Police say first aid given at [...]

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BRITAIN announced today it was doubling its official support for the Global Fund to fight Aids, tuberculosis and malaria.
The Department for International Development will give £100 million to the fund in each of the next two years - double the £51m previously promised.
The increase makes the UK the fourth-largest donor to the fund [...]

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London - The four suicide bombers who killed 52 people in London on July 7 left a car packed with 16 bombs, newspapers said on Thursday, with one claiming that the devices were made by the same person who armed a second wave of attackers two weeks later.
Chilling black and white X-ray photographs of [...]

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NOMINATIONS have now closed for Aston and Bordesley Green council by-elections.
Both elections on Thursday, July 28, were called following the sacking of six Labour councillors over postal vote fraud allegations.
Aston Labour Party made a last-minute substitution to their list following the withdrawal of Amjad Hussain over an undischarged bankruptcy. He is replaced by [...]

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Up to 130 asylum seekers could be sent to Bedford under proposals unveiled by a Government quango.
The East of England Regional Assembly (EERA) has nominated the town as one of six ‘dispersal areas’ in the region.
If the scheme gets the go-ahead, between 70 and 130 asylum seekers will live in the town over the next [...]

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[£28,460 - £36,670 not bad wage for dealing with asylum seekers-ed]
SKILLS AND COMPETENCE:
Essential:
1. Proven experience of project management and working directly through partners, strong work planning and organisational skills.
2. Excellent knowledge and understanding of refugee and asylum policy issues in the UK, particularly around integration, participation and public perceptions.
3. Strong familiarity with the refugee and [...]

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The group portrait of British Muslims painted by YouGov’s survey for The Daily Telegraph is at once reassuring and disturbing, in some ways even alarming.
The vast majority of British Muslims condemn the London bombings but a substantial minority are clearly alienated from modern British society and some are prepared to justify terrorist acts.
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[I am disgusted by the Leicester City chief executive Tim Davis who wants to try and get compensation from this-ed]
Inter Milan have cancelled their four game pre-season tour of England because of safety fears in the wake of the London bombings.
The Italian club were due to play Portsmouth, Leicester, Norwich and Crystal Palace in [...]

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UNSKILLED migrant workers face compulsory deductions from their wages to ensure that they leave Britain under a proposed overhaul of migration rules announced yesterday.
Employers would deduct the money from their wages and pay it into a bank account in the migrant’s home country. The worker would be able to have access to the account [...]

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The founder of BNP John Tyndall died at his home in Brighton today.
Mr Tyndall was hounded to his death by race charges relating to his comments about the Tory leader Michael Howard.
He was due to appear in court this Thursday on race charges and could have faced jail. (could this have anything to do [...]

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AN ILLEGAL immigrant who sexually assaulted two girls in a Weymouth restaurant before going on the run was jailed for 19 months.
Recorder Jean Ritchie told Muhib Jaman that he had behaved despicably and should be deported after he pleaded guilty to two charges of indecent assault and one charge of failing to surrender to custody.
At [...]

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BRITAIN’S oldest recorded town is set to be one of the new centres for an influx of 800 asylum seekers.
Colchester is one of six locations that have chosen by the East of England Regional Assembly to become special dispersal areas for asylum seekers.
Ipswich, Norwich and Peterborough and Ipswich currently used as official centres, but now [...]

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A council boss with convictions for people smuggling today spoke for the first time of his criminal past.
Bright Oduro-Kwateng, 49, was jailed for 12 months for forging passports in the names of dead babies.
He was sacked from his job at Greenwich Council following his involvement in the seven-year scam in 1998.
But eight weeks ago [...]

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The UK has come a long way in the last 50 years to creating a true multiracial society. It’s time to wave the flag and celebrate the progress that’s been made!
A number of countries around the globe have black in their flags to represent the colour of their people. It makes sense for the [...]

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A LONDON-BASED Islamic radical has praised the suicide bomb attacks on the capital.
Hani Al-Siba’i, an Egyptian-born academic, described the attacks that killed at least 55 people as “a great victory” that rubbed the noses of G8 countries in the mud.
His inflammatory comments come as the government is preparing to create a new offence [...]

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A HERO Brit has been brutally shot dead while protecting his terrified wife from gunmen who raided their Spanish villa.
Brave Wilson Mills, 67, threw himself in front of his wife Cherrel but was blasted in the stomach with a shotgun at point blank range.
The couple were sunbathing by their swimming pool when at least five [...]

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A Liberal Democrat MP has come under fire for saying the HIV virus could be spread through shared use of objects such as combs and even “toilet seats”.
Nick Harvey said combs had been removed from Commons’ cloakrooms amid concern about head lice and general hygiene.
But a health officials’ report also showed an “infinitesimal risk” [...]

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The Labour Party has admitted that its members are becoming disillusioned with the Government because they have little influence over its policies.
A review of the way the party draws up its programme has backed activists’ complaints that they were frozen out when key policies such as university tuition fees and foundation hospitals were announced [...]

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[Note how official media call him a 'healer' and 'shaman'-ed]
An African healer yesterday admitted killing his British wife weeks after she took him to live with her in Devon.
Hibiekoun Hien, 53, from Burkina Faso, west Africa, admitted killing Linda MacDonald, also 53, at her terrace home in the Dartmoor town of Buckfastleigh, where [...]

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The Parades Commission has been asked to ban or limit a Gay Pride march due to take place in Belfast.
The march, scheduled for 6 August, has been held in the city centre for the past 14 years.
The parade organisers said they did not accept that limitations should be applied.
Reverend David McIlveen, who led [...]

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