An Iraqi-born leisure centre worker has been awarded more than £100,000 after winning a discrimination case against his employers in Flintshire.
The award includes £53,000 for loss of earnings over the next five years for Wafir Al-Jumard, 59, of Connah’s Quay.
Clwyd Leisure plans to appeal against the employment tribunal decision.
Mr Al-Jumard complained to his employers when [...]

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Four Rwandan men living in Britain, including one given citizenship, appeared in court yesterday accused of organising the mass slaughter of Tutsis in the 1994 genocide
Vincent Bajinya, who changed his name to Brown on becoming a citizen last year, Charles Munyaneza, Celestin Ugirashebuja and Emmanuel Nteziryayo face [...]

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A council has been fiercely criticised for holding ethnic-minority only swimming sessions.
Wolverhampton City Council employs special life-guards and instructors for the sessions, which are open to the city’s black and Asian residents only.
It claims the weekly periods are for women and children with “religious or cultural issues which would otherwise prevent them from taking part.”
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Labour is losing a member every 20 minutes and will have none left within seven years if that rate continues, according to one of the candidates for the party’s deputy leadership.
Jon Cruddas, the MP for Dagenham, said the party had lost more than 160,000 members between 2000 and 2006.
If it continued in the same way, [...]

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New lessons in Indian history announced today are anti-British and expose 12- to 14-year-olds to the sexually explicit Kama Sutra, according to a curriculum association.
It accuses the Government’s curriculum advisers of a “politically correct” interpretation of Britain’s imperial past based on false claims about Winston Churchill.
The lesson plans published today by the Qualifications and Curriculum [...]

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A campaign group that opposes mass immigration called for tougher measures yesterday after government figures showed immigrants were entering Britain at the rate of nearly one a minute.
Government data published last month showed more than 1,500 foreigners, who were intending to stay for at least a year, arrived in Britain every day last year.
Migrationwatch said [...]

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Operation Fundraiser has distributed £70,000 raised from Manchester Pride 2006 to LGBT and HIV good causes throughout Greater Manchester.
The money raised from this year’s Manchester Pride has been distributed to help HIV and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender charities in Greater Manchester.
Operation Fundraiser, the community fundraising venture and joint initiative between Lesbian and Gay [...]

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A gay man who was due to become the first to have a civil partnership dissolved has postponed the “divorce” to avoid being a “poster boy” for same sex couple’s ending their partnerships.
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A CORONER today appealed for the public’s help to discover how a college student gained access to a gun which he used to shoot dead his 15-year-old ex-girlfriend and then himself.
Jilted Joshua Thompson, 18, shot Kally Gilligan at her home in Salford, Greater Manchester, with a sawn-off shotgun before taking his own life.
Police inquiries are [...]

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The man who bludgeoned Lin and Megan Russell to death in Kent in 1996 must spend at least 25 years in prison before being considered for parole.
Michael Stone, 46, was given three life sentences in 2001 for the murders, and the attempted murder of Josie Russell.
The minimum jail term he must serve was set by [...]

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The funeral of the last British serviceman to serve in both World Wars will be held on Thursday.
Captain Kenneth Cummins died aged 106. He served in the Royal Navy in World War I and the Merchant Navy in World War II.
Until his death at home in Great Bedwyn in Wiltshire, he was one of five [...]

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A student has been jailed for 10 years for carrying out three rapes in central London.
Amro Mohamed, 21, of Wedderburn Road, Swiss Cottage, London, targeted the two lone women, aged in their early 20s, in Piccadilly last November and December.
He would pretend to offer them free nightclub tickets but instead take them to the St [...]

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Four youths have been found guilty of killing a woman as she cradled her baby niece at a christening.
Zainab Kalokoh, 33, was shot in the head when robbers raided the party in Peckham, south London, in August 2005.
A 17-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was found guilty at the Old Bailey of murdering [...]

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Police seeking a man over the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky are considering the theory he may have fled the UK dressed as a veiled Muslim woman.

It is understood West Yorkshire Police - who have not commented on reports about the veil theory - regard it only as one of a number of possibilities.
The wanted [...]

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An Austrian court has ruled that UK historian David Irving - jailed for denying the Holocaust - should be released on probation.
The court had heard calls for both a reduction and increase in the three-year sentence.
Irving was convicted in February in a case that sparked international debate about the limits of freedom of speech.
In 1989 [...]

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Halal meat is being served to pupils in state schools without their knowledge, even if they believe the religious slaughter is cruel.

Parents have reacted furiously after being sent letters telling them their children’s school dinners have been all-halal for ’some time’.
To conform with Jewish and Muslim religious tradition, animals are prepared for halal products by [...]

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CNN cut out the introduction where Mr Blitzer called Mr Duke KKK leader 11 times.
WOLF BLITZER: Joining us now live from Tehran is the former Louisiana state representative, David Duke.
Mr. Duke, thanks very much for coming in. What do you say to those who [...]

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A Brighton and Hove councillor has been found guilty of a public order offence over a remark that “equated gay people with paedophiles”.
Brighton Magistrates’ Court was told Peter Willows, 75, from Hove, East Sussex, was asked if he thought a gay councillor was a paedophile.
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Prime Minister Tony Blair has been interviewed by police investigating cash for honours allegations.
Mr Blair was not interviewed under caution and he was not accompanied by a lawyer, his spokesman said.
The probe was sparked by revelations Labour was given secret loans ahead of last year’s election. Some donors were subsequently nominated for honours.
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US President George Bush has strongly backed Turkey’s efforts to join the European Union.
He expressed his support during talks at the White House with the leader of Turkey’s ruling party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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