A man who burned a copy of the Quran outside the Turkish consulate in London has been found guilty of a religiously aggravated public order offence. Hamit Coskun, 50, shouted abusive comments about Islam as he held the flaming book aloft in Rutland Gardens in Knightsbridge on 13 February. On Monday he was found guilty...
Martin Jones BBC West Investigations Cheryl Dennis BBC Points West BBC Ernest Williams says he feels “bitter” about his treatment by the MOD and will keep fighting to get the pension he feels he deserves Time has not dimmed Ernest Williams’ sense of injustice. Despite being 90 years of age, the former Royal Navy veteran...
Video footage shared online shows six-year-old Ward Jalal Al-Shaikh Khalil escaping a blaze at a Gaza City school following overnight Israeli air strikes. Among the 35 Palestinians reported to have been killed at the the Fahmi Al-Jargawi School were Ward’s mother and two siblings. Her father is in intensive care in hospital. Our Middle East...
Officials are working to deliver essential raw materials to British Steel’s Scunthorpe plant, the government has said, as it races to keep its blast furnaces burning. An emergency law rushed through Parliament on Saturday gave the government control of the Lincolnshire site to prevent its Chinese owner shutting it down. The government said work was...
A new report published on International Day of Forests (21 March) by Biofuelwatch and the Environmental Paper Network International, with the support of eight national-level environmental groups, exposes the extent to which the EU’s major wood pulp producers generate and sell energy produced by burning wood sourced directly from forestry operations. The EU’s obsession with biomass...