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guardian
White supremacist planned racist bombings
The Old Bailey in London has heard how Neil Lewington, a White supremacist arrested by chance at a railway station in Suffolk, was 'on the cusp' of launching a racist terrorism campaign.
30 June 2009 (external article)
guardian Pipe bomb threat to Roma discovered
Northern Ireland security sources have said that pipe bombs discovered in Belfast last week were to be used to attack more properties housing migrants.
29 June 2009 (external article)
croydon advertiser Council to examine BNP member's racist claims
Croydon Council is looking to see whether it can take BNP member Charlotte Lewis to court after she allegedly boasted about mounting a racist campaign of harassment against an Afghan family living in the flat above her.
29 June 2009 (external article)
guardian Government considers ban on BNP teachers
The government is investigating a possible ban on BNP party members working as teachers in schools.
24 June 2009 (external article)
bbc news Race hate criminals deported back to UK
Simon Sheppard and Stephen Whittle, the first Britons to be convicted of inciting racial hatred online, have been deported back to Yorkshire from the US. They tried to claim asylum in the US but their case was thrown out by an immigration judge.
17 June 2009 (external article)
burnley citizen Asian man to stand trial for alleged racial abuse of BNP leader
Tauriq Khalid will stand trial later this year, accused of racially abusing BNP leader Nick Griffin during a BNP protest over whether party supporters would be charged with racial incitement for leaflets linking Muslims to the drugs trade.
17 June 2009 (external article)
guardian Racist rants of elected BNP man revealed
The Guardian has revealed that newly elected BNP MEP Andrew Brons played a crucial role in shaping the National Front's most overtly racist policies - undertaken as an adult despite his attempt to dismiss this work as 'silly' teenage posturing.
15 June 2009 (external article)
glasgow herald Equality bill will outlaw BNP's 'Whites only' policy
Commons leader Harriet Harman has told MPs that the BNP's 'apartheid' constitution, which only accepts White people as members, would be outlawed by the Equality bill currently before parliament.
15 June 2009 (external article)
bbc news Romanian family targeted by racist gang attacks
A gang of up to twenty people shouted racist slogans, smashed windows and terrorised pregnant women and children in a series of racist attacks over four days in South Belfast.
15 June 2009 (external article)
comment
The BNP's success reflects the new racism of our political culture
By Arun Kundnani
The election of two British National Party MEPs owes as much to new forms of racism in mainstream politics as to alienation from the Labour Party.
11 June 2009 (706 words)
northumberland gazette White teenager in court on terror charges
Nicky Davison, an 18-year-old suspected White supremacist from County Durham, has appeared in court charged under the Terrorism Act 2000. He is accused of possessing a weapons manual and of links to the racist group Aryan Strike Force.
9 June 2009 (external article)
bbc news BNP secures two European seats
BNP leader Nick Griffin has been elected to the European Parliament as the party won its first two seats - Griffin for the North West region and Andrew Brons for Yorkshire and Humber.
9 June 2009 (external article)
lancashire evening post Yorkshire race hate writers to be deported from US
A US immigration judge has ordered the deportation to the UK of Stephen Whittle and Simon Sheppard, who skipped bail and flew to Los Angeles to claim asylum, after they were convicted last year of publishing inflammatory anti-Jewish material.
9 June 2009 (external article)
northern echo Suspected racist extremists in anti-terror arrests
Anti-terror police have detained Ian and Nicky Davison, a father and son believed to be involved in a far-right White supremacist group in County Durham, on suspicion of offences under the Terrorism Act 2000.
3 June 2009 (external article)
observer BNP's 'abhorrent' views exposed
A Searchlight investigation has exposed the 'abhorrent' views of a number of prominent BNP members, including candidates for this month's European elections.
2 June 2009 (external article)
independent BNP leader accused of exploiting racist murder
BNP leader Nick Griffin has been accused by the anti-racist group Searchlight of using a YouTube broadcast to exploit the memory of murdered Black teenager Anthony Walker, who was killed in a racist attack in a Liverpool park in 2005.
2 June 2009 (external article)
guardian Musicians demand BNP stop selling their songs
Musicians from bands including Blur and Pink Floyd have launched a campaign demanding that the BNP stop selling their music on compilation CDs to raise campaign funds.
28 May 2009 (external article)
bbc news BNP boss pulls out of Palace trip
The BNP leader Nick Griffin has said that he will not attend a Buckingham Palace garden party following uproar over his invite to attend from Richard Barnbrook, BNP London Assembly member.
28 May 2009 (external article)
bbc news BNP's Churchill use 'disgusting'
Winston Churchill's family has labelled the use of his image in a BNP election broadcast as 'disgusting' and said that it should have been banned.
27 May 2009 (external article)
manchester evening news BNP candidate faces sack
Eddy O'Sullivan, the Salford BNP organiser and a BNP candidate in the European election, is facing the sack from the party after posting racist comments on his Facebook profile.
21 May 2009 (external article)
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