External news

Around 100 supporters of the English Defence League, including its leader, threw bottles at the police and chanted anti-Muslim slogans after the murder of a British soldier in Woolwich.

Around 1,000 lawyers and legal workers rallied outside parliament in protest against government plans to slash legal aid.

Following a murder in Woolwich, London, a number of mosques have been attacked in London and the south east of England, resulting in the arrests of two men for attempted arson and brandishing a weapon.

Brighton and Hove city council has called for BME people to apply for jobs after a report found a significant drop in the number of job positions offered to them.

G4S, a security company contracted to provide housing for asylum seekers, has threatened to evict a tenant in Leeds because of rent arrears that the company owes but refuses to pay.

Proposals requiring schools to check on the immigration status of their pupils have been vetoed by Liberal Democrat school minister David Laws, who says the plans would be too difficult to implement.

Stoke City FC has begun an investigation into the discovery of a pig’s head in Kenwyne Jone’s locker.

An independent report has revealed that police mistakes in dealing with people suffering from mental illness could have contributed to the deaths of dozens of people in the UK.

Detained radical cleric Abu Qatada has again been denied bail at an immigration tribunal in London after having been imprisoned for breaching bail conditions.

Five detained asylum seekers have won a test case against the Home Office’s policy of ignoring medical evidence of torture and have been awarded compensation by the High Court.

Croydon Council has paid out almost £1.2m in legal fees for wrongly classifying asylum seeking children as adults.

A 24-year-old woman, Toni Pandeles, has been jailed for racially attacking a 15-year-old Bangladeshi boy after breaching her previous 20-week suspended sentence order.

Eric Kitson, a UKIP councillor for Worcestershire, is being investigated by party officials after posting a string of racist comments about Muslims on his Facebook account.

The G4S guard in charge of restraining Jimmy Mubenga, an Angolan asylum seeker who died during a deportation flight, was made to read out in court a string of racist jokes he had shared with friends.

Eric Kitson, UKIP councillor from Worcestershire County, has announced his resignation after posting 'racist' content on Facebook.

David Norris, one of two men convicted for the racist murder of Stephen Lawrence, has had his bid to overturn the conviction dismissed by the Court of Appeal.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has told the Metropolitan police that it must review its handling of mentally ill suspects, after a review found that they routinely use ‘too much force’.

A £10,000 reward is being offered in return for information about the murder of Mohammed Saleem, who was stabbed three times on his way home from a mosque in Small Heath.

Abu Qatada has announced that he will ‘voluntarily go back to Jordan’ if the Jordanian government ratifies a new deportation treaty with Britain guaranteeing his safety.

The UK Secretary of Defence has denied claims that the British government told the Pentagon it is in ‘no rush’ to have the last British Guantanamo detainee Shaker Aamer released.

An 81-year-old woman with dementia starved to death in Surrey following an immigration raid brought about the closure of the private care company that looked after her.

The police have raided the home of a mother and son who brought a successful racial harassment claim against the Metropolitan, seizing case files in the days before an appeal launched by the Met.

The Metropolitan police has refused to allow the IPCC to question officers involved in the death of Olaseni Lewis, who died after being held down by up to eleven officers in a London hospital in 2010.

Immigration judges are to decide whether Abu Qatada is to be granted bail from Belmarsh prison this week.

UKIP has gained 139 councillors after local elections saw almost a quarter of voters opting for the party.