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Academics & Education
Batley school protests: Petition calls for teacher to keep job
(BBC) A petition defending a teacher who showed pupils a “deeply offensive” cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad has gathered more than 44,000 signatures. The staff member was suspended after protests were held outside Batley Grammar School. Some had demanded the teacher’s sacking […]
Alcohol & Drugs
Two people attacked by machete-wielding man in Barcelona yelling ‘Allahu Akbar’
(Euro Weekly) Two people were attacked by a mentally ill man who chased them with a machete on Sunday evening. Catalonian police managed to apprehend and arrest a Moroccan national who chased people through the streets while wielding a machete, but that […]
Crime
Migrant boat pilot loses bid to appeal sentence
(BBC) An asylum seeker who piloted a boat in the English Channel where four passengers drowned has lost his bid to challenge his convictions and sentence. Ibrahima Bah was convicted of manslaughter and of facilitating a breach of UK immigration law and […]