A BNP activist told a jury he blamed “the Labour Party, the establishment and the media” for the race hate charges against him.
Mark Collett, 25, told Leeds Crown Court that he denied a series of speeches he made in 2004 were intended to stir up racial hatred and said BNP supporters and activists were [...]

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Rescue charity workers who battled in vain to save a whale found swimming up the River Thames are now facing a bill of more than £300 in parking fines.
Alan Knight, the British Divers Marine Rescue Group chairman, said cars were parked by Vauxhall Bridge on meters.
But in a race against time to [...]

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[Worth a note that Serbia and Croatia are in Southern Europe-ed]
EXTREME right wing groups from eastern Europe are planning to subject England’s black football stars to racist abuse during the World Cup tournament in Germany.
The gangs, from Serbia, Croatia and the Czech Republic, have held meetings at which they agreed to put aside traditional [...]

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[I may note that having listening devices placed in rocks was widely used by the UK in Northern Ireland for many years-ed]
Russian state television has broadcast video footage of what it claims are British diplomats spying in Moscow.
In the programme, people claiming to be Russian intelligence officers say British agents planted a transmitter in an [...]

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[We might see this spying on Iran next-ed]

Images of the UK’s first prototype stealth surveillance aircraft have been unveiled.
The unmanned vehicle, which has been built by BAE Systems, is known as the Corax, or as the Raven.
The Corax bears some resemblance to a cancelled US military spy plane called DarkStar, analysts have [...]

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In an environment more fitting of a James Bond film, the British government goes to court to try to obtain a High Court injunction, which would make it illegal for any publication in Britain of information published by a disaffected MI6 (Military Intelligence) spy in Russia.
Richard Tomlinson was dismissed from MI6 in 1994 and was [...]

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A whale that became stranded in the River Thames has died after a massive rescue attempt to save its life.
The 18ft (5m) northern bottle-nosed whale was first spotted in the river on Friday and rescuers began an attempt to save it on Saturday morning.
But the whale died at about 1900 GMT on Saturday [...]

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[I have always wanted to put a story into the blowback section and I think this one is appropriate-ed]

Former Liberal Democrat leadership challenger Mark Oaten has stood down as the party’s home affairs spokesman over an alleged affair with a rent boy.
Mr Oaten released a statement apologising for the “embarrassment” caused to his [...]

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A black man escaped a possible jail sentence yesterday after claiming that swearing and using racist insults were part of his cultural identity.
Robin Sterling claimed that his use of offensive language, including racist gibes, was part of a Jamaican patois.
Magistrates warned him to comply with accepted British cultural norms after being told how Sterling [...]

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Activists from the Oldham branch and others from Burnley and Harrogate met outside the Granada TV studios earlier today (19th) to protest about the Coronation Street soap episode shown earlier this week - Monday(16th).
During this episode the following scene took place:- “Anyway she (Sunita) was visited by her Brother (Jayeesh) who was obviously disappointed that [...]

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George Galloway faced a backlash from his constituents yesterday who accused him of abandoning them for television fame on Celebrity Big Brother.
Mixing with a Page Three girl, a former Baywatch actress and the former mistress of England coach Sven Goran Eriksson has not gone down well with many in east London.
Jim Fitzpatrick, the minister for [...]

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Two Thai fisherman have been sentenced to death for the rape and murder of British backpacker Katherine Horton on New Year’s Day.
Bualoi Posit, 23, and Wichai Somkhaoyai, 24, are set to be executed by lethal injection for the attack on 21-year-old student Katherine Horton.
Reading out the verdict, Judge Chamnong Sutchaimai said: “The [...]

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JERUSALEM—Ending a strict, six-millennia prohibition of the consumption of cloven-hoofed beasts, the World Rabbinical Council announced Tuesday that Jews worldwide may “dig in to the delicious taste of ham.”
“The Jewish people have always had the utmost reverence for the laws of God, as handed down from Abraham to his son Isaac, to his son Jacob. [...]

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CORONATION Street sparked outrage last night when Asian Sunita was accused of “living like white trash”.
Furious viewers phoned The Sun with demands that ITV apologise.
Watchdog Ofcom is now braced for a barrage of complaints over the episode.
Sunita — played by Shobna Gulati— has split from hubby Dev and lives above his shop [...]

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[Is this where our tax money ends up?-ed]
Manila, 16 Jan. (AKI9 - European Union funds are set to help the Islamic Sharia judicial system operating in the mostly Muslim Mindanao autononomous region of the southern Philippines, where separatist groups have waged war since the 1970s. Part of the money, according to a report from the [...]

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Police questioned Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Zvi Heifetz, Friday morning over a money laundering affair connected to a Bank Hapoalim branch in Tel Aviv.
Heifetz, a former business manager to Russian-Israeli tycoon Vladimir Gusinsky, was first approached by investigators two months ago.
The ambassador was questioned over allegations that Gusinsky’s cash was “laundered” via [...]

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The first day of the Free Speech trial got underway in Leeds with a tough talking judge warning anti BNP protestors and a tremendous show of support for the two defendants, Nick Griffin and Mark Collett.
Contrary to the lies put out by the BBC this afternoon, about 300 (double the number the BBC claimed) pro-free [...]

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The British Consulate is actually several stories up in the skyscraper, so the plan is to protest on the street and to take a letter of protest to the embassy itself.
What is being protested is the trial of Nick Griffin, leader of the British National Party. Nick Griffin is on trial for “speech to [...]

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[15 years for this slaughter!-ed]

A Rwandan rebel who killed four British tourists has been jailed for 15 years.
Jean-Paul Bizimana, 31, was convicted last week of the killings at Uganda’s Bwindi National Park in March 1999.
The four Britons, as well as two Americans, two New Zealanders and a tour guide, were bludgeoned to death with [...]

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