Two teenagers aged 14 and 17 were shot at the Notting Hill Carnival and another man was stabbed as violence marred the end of the celebrations.
Despite early assurances from police that the festival had been peaceful, the last few hours saw a series of attacks.
Police found a 17-year-old youth bleeding from his shoulder after hearing [...]
Entries from August 2007
Shootings mar end of Notting Hill Carnival
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drug dealer tarred and feathered
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His face may be covered in tar and feathers - but his body language clearly spells out the shame he feels.
And the words scrawled on a placard around his neck announce the reason for his very public humiliation.
Though undoubtedly crude, this is justice, as carried out by a group of Northern Irish vigilantes frustrated at [...]
Tags: civil-rights
Red Ken uses Dumplings to woo Polish Voters
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n any election, candidates must have a secret weapon up their sleeves. Some dig out damaging dirt on their opponents. Others deploy a regiment of management gurus to focus-group the electorate. But in his bid to be re-elected mayor of London next year, Ken Livingstone has stocked up on something rather different: pierogi.
Realising that among [...]
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Troops withdraw from Basra base
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British forces have withdrawn from a base in Basra they shared with Iraqi police - the first step in a plan to move out all troops based in the city.
Another 500 troops will now pull back from Saddam Hussein’s former palace, their only remaining base in the city.
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57 arrests in one day at notting hill carnival
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[We all know police turn a blind eye to a lot of offences at the carnivel, so these must have been some serious crimes going on-ed]
Hundreds of thousands of people have enjoyed the first day of the Notting Hill Carnival in west London.
A massive police operation is under way for the two-day event with officers [...]
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Racist attempted murder caught on camera in Bradford
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Radio discussed racist grooming of White girls by Muslim men
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US airman charged with two rapes
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A Suffolk-based US airman has been charged with two counts of rape.
Renato Sanchez Del Carpio, stationed at RAF Lakenheath, is accused of raping two female aircrew at the base in October 2005 and October last year.
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Row as village stages mock bikini Muslim parade
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A row has broken out over a carnival parade after a group’s act has been deemed “disgusting and offensive” to Muslims.
The procession included a 17-strong group of men and women called “The Page Three Beauties from the Ramalama Ding Dong Times”.
They dressed in Muslim style burkas and carried a banner saying “Join the Kernow Mosk [...]
Tags: Islam & the Arab World
One in four Britons is out of work
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Nearly 10 million adults in Britain are currently out of work, one in four of the working population, the Government admitted yesterday.
Official figures showed there are 1.65 million people who are unemployed, with a further 7.9 million defined as “economically inactive”.
The latter group includes more than two million people who are on long-term sickness benefits [...]
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Grooming of white girls for sex is exposed as two Asian men jailed
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A hidden world in which Asian men “groom” young white girls for sex has been exposed with the jailing yesterday of two men for child-abuse offences.
Zulfqar Hussain, 46, and Qaiser Naveed, 32, from east Lancashire, were each jailed for five years and eight months after exploiting two girls aged under 16 by plying them with [...]
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Calls for clampdown on swan eaters from eastern Europe
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There are few sights so serene as a swan sailing majestically along the Grand Union Canal.
Except, that is, when it is being chased by a gang of hungry, knife-wielding Eastern Europeans.
Polish and Lithuanian immigrants have been seen trying to drag the 20lb birds away, while the remains of some have been found butchered on the [...]
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Bomb blast kills two UK soldiers
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Two British soldiers were killed by a bomb blast in Iraq on Thursday, the Ministry of Defence said.
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Immigrants have taken four in ten homes since 1997
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Four in ten homes built over the past ten years have been needed because of immigration, figures have revealed.
Nearly 600,000 properties have had to be constructed because of the new arrivals since Labour came to power in 1997, said researchers at the House of Commons Library.
This is three times more than the number of homes [...]
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Competition Commission could force BAA to sell-off Gatwick airport
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Terminals at Heathrow and Gatwick could be run by competing companies as part of a shake-up of BAA’s stranglehold of the country’s airports.
An even more radical move under consideration would be having Heathrow’s two runways operated by rivals.
One of London’s big three airports could also be put up for sale to break the operator’s monopoly.
If [...]
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Police foil Notting Hill Carnival gang war plot
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Police have foiled a plot to wage a violent gang war at this year’s Notting Hill Carnival.
They believe members of south London gangs were arming themselves for the bank holiday event this month with an arsenal of weapons including a handgun, CS gas canisters and stun guns.
Police recovered the haul in a raid on a [...]
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Download RWB footage to your mobile phone
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Martin McGuinness Launches Derry Pride
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Sinn Fein’s Martin McGuinness launches the gay pride festival in Derry today.
Northern Ireland’s Deputy First Minister will be shown Free Derry Corner, which has been painted pink to publicise the event.
Organisers from Northern Ireland’s Rainbow Project want to highlight their battle for equality.
Coordinator David McCartney said: “There will be a focus on human rights and [...]
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Belfast Gay Club Faces Court Battle
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Northern Ireland’s most popular gay venue is facing a court battle over alleged overcrowding during last year’s Belfast Pride.
The Kremlin, which is in the Cathedral quarter of the city, has supposedly breached the terms of its entertainment licence.
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What Churchill said about Britain’s immigrants
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Sir Winston Churchill expressed alarm about an influx of ‘coloured people’ in Fifties’ Britain and looked for a chance to restore punishment by flogging, newly released cabinet papers from the national archive reveal.
On 3 February 1954, under the agenda item ‘Coloured Workers’, Churchill is quoted, with abbreviations, by Cabinet Secretary Sir Norman Brook as saying: [...]
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