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Big gains for BNP in local elections
In the May municipal elections, the BNP increased its total number of local authority seats from twenty to fifty-two - on eighteen councils.
1 June 2006 (77 words)

'Moral panic' over foreign nationals released from prison
The home secretary, Charles Clarke, has lost his cabinet post after revelations that around 1,000 foreign nationals were released from prison following a prison sentence without being considered for deportation.
26 May 2006 (593 words)

Medical profession angry over new immigration regulations for overseas doctors
The British Medical Association (BMA) has criticised new immigration regulations which state that NHS trusts cannot recruit junior doctors from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) if there are suitable candidates from the UK or the EEA.
9 May 2006 (190 words)

Historians ridicule government citizenship guide
A number of historians have attacked the new 146-page government booklet on citizenship for containing a confusing array of historical errors, questionable suppositions and glaring misquotes.
29 April 2006 (95 words)

Home Office marriage regulations face legal challenge
The Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants (JCWI) is taking a test case against a provision of the 2004 Asylum and Immigration Act which states that citizens wishing to marry a foreign partner must address themselves to a specially designated register office where they have to meet strict eligibility criteria before their notice to marry is accepted.
19 January 2006 (275 words)

Anti-immigrant pressure group highlights 'arranged marriages'
The right-wing pressure group Migration Watch argues that strict limits on arranged marriages should be introduced to protect Britain from the creation of racial ghettos.
8 January 2006 (147 words)

Chief rabbi attacks multiculturalism
Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, speaking at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, said that Europe was more segregated today than it was twenty or thirty years ago, partly due to the failure of multiculturalism.
1 January 2006 (124 words)

Racism termed 'the new terrorism' in Northern Ireland
Community leaders in Northern Ireland have warned that racism is threatening to replace terrorism in a rising tide of attacks and incidents on immigrant workers and asylum seekers.
18 October 2004 (336 words)

Michael Menson: no police officers charged over failed investigation
No charges will be brought against any police officer in connection with the two botched investigations of the 1997 murder of the black musician Michael Menson (who was found on the street, doused in petrol and with multiple burns, from which he died) even though the Police Complaints Authority found negligence and racism in the investigations.
29 July 2003 (156 words)

Race attack victim wins damages against police
Francisco Borg, a 22-year-old black man sprayed with CS gas by police after pleading for protection from a gang of skinheads in 1997, has been awarded £40,000 in damages by Cardiff County Court.
29 July 2003 (91 words)

Deaths involving police
Christopher Alder - police cleared
29 July 2003 (525 words)

Traveller child killed, but police stay silent on racism motive
Johnny Delaney, a 15-year-old member of a traveller family was left to die in the middle of a playing field in Ellesmere Port.
29 July 2003 (85 words)

Racism and the courts
Oldham 'race riot' update: light sentences for neo-Nazis
29 July 2003 (189 words)

Focus on Northern Ireland
There is increasing evidence that racial violence in Northern Ireland is being co-ordinated by white supremacist movements *
29 July 2003 (919 words)

Racial violence and the war aftermath
According to a report in the Guardian, David Blunkett, home secretary, declared that attacks on ethnic minorities had, against expectation, actually fallen during the war on Iraq.
29 July 2003 (507 words)

Racism in football
FA under pressure to act
29 July 2003 (281 words)

The BNP in the May local elections
The extreme-right British National Party (BNP) contested a record 221 seats in the May local elections, and now holds sixteen seats.
30 June 2003 (683 words)

Anti-refugee violence
Riot against refugees in Wales
30 June 2003 (620 words)

Police chief alleges migrant crime rise
The president of the Association of Chief Police Officers has alleged that 'massive migration and a whole new type of crime, from the Nigerian fraudster ... to the Jamaican concentration on drug dealing' was sweeping the country.
30 May 2003 (90 words)

Burnley 'riots': Asians win sentence reduction
Five Asian men, who defended their community against a white mob during rioting in Burnley in summer 2001, had their sentences slashed by the court of appeal.
11 April 2003 (74 words)

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