Rochdale Online: Protest by far right groups passes peacefully:Around 100 members of the National Front and the North West Infidels took part in a protest in Heywood today (Saturday 3 March).
The demonstration, which took place in the Memorial Gardens on Church Street, passed peacefully with only a small number of arrests for minor offences.
Two protestors were arrested for public order offences while a 49-year-old man was arrested earlier in the day for a racially-aggravated public order offence.
The demonstration started at around 1.15pm and by 2.30pm all those partaking had been dispersed.
The people who were taking part held placards, banners and flags and were confined into the gardens where they listened to speeches. They made a request to march through Heywood, which was denied by police.
There was an increased police presence in the town to manage the demo. Businesses opened as normal but pubs in the area closed.
Around 200 people, mainly youths, clashed with police officers and brought the town of Heywood to a stand still. Yobs threw missiles and bricks at police during the disturbance on the 23rd Feb 2012.
A Greater Manchester Police officer suffered bruising to his legs and arms during the trouble on Bridge Street. No other injuries were reported. A car and three police vehicles were damaged, and a takeaway food outlet's windows were smashed. The owners of the takeaway have nothing to do with the high profile court case in Liverpool about a Rochdale grooming gang.
A 35-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of a public order offence and police assault. A 14-year-old boy was arrested for causing danger to a public highway.
Police have stepped up patrols after the flashmob's night of violence.
Murderers of vulnerable Lincoln man had links to far-right English Defence League"Asperger’s sufferer Shaun, 21, of Dunkirk Road, was found to have suffered more than 40 injuries. He was punched, kicked and stamped on during the attack on grassland, off Searby Road, on June 3.
Jones and Jackson were found guilty of his murder, along with two others, at Nottingham Crown Court on Friday."
"Mass murderer Anders Behring Breivik marched with members of the English Defence League last year.
It is understood that the Norwegian gunman who slayed 76 people on Friday took part in a march organised by the far-right movement in Newcastle in May 2010 - and another in London."
Read more: Daily Mail | Norway Shooting: Anders Behring Breivik marched with English Defence League
PROTESTERS from the British National Party gathered outside Burnley Crown Court this morning.Child sex offences over the alleged exploitation of a 14-year-old girl.
Around 50 people, including members of the EDL, held a demonstration outside the building in Hammerton Street.
http://www.pendletoday.co.uk/news/local-news/bnp-protest-outside-burnley-court-1-4305872
The family of a teenage boy who suffered serious injuries after a suspected race attack have pleaded for a march by the English Defence League (EDL) not to go ahead.
Read more: MEN Media | Family of Hyde race-attack victim, Daniel Stringer-Prince, urge English Defence League to call off protest march
"Town centre business owner, Paul Turner-Mitchell, was doing his shopping when he saw the group. He described it as “really bizarre.”
Speaking to Rochdale Online, he said: “I turned up at Asda at about 3.30pm on Saturday and there were two police officers outside Asda and a couple of Asda security guards, I thought it seemed strange but then I didn’t give it another thought and went about my shopping.
“I had two of my children with me and we were near the milk section and by the halal meat section there was a big group of men and then more police officers turned up.
“The police were there very quickly and the police moved them on and it was business as usual.
“When I finished my shopping and had paid, the police were still outside so I asked them what was going on and they said they were members of the EDL and they had been dispersed into the town centre where there were extra police.”
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"The legal fund was set up for all the right intentions. Now, there's a couple of things - if people agree - anyone who doesn't agree can contact - I think there was £3000 donated - anyone who doesn't agree can contact and ask for their money back. But I'm just trying to find out. I've heard we've got a lad, Big B, up in Blackburn, Lancashire who's in jail. I heard - just trying to get to the bottom of it - there may be a chance of getting the lad bail for £5,000. Now if there is, then that £3000 will be put towards getting the lad bail. He's one of our top lads. One of our main activists across the country. He's a good lad, and there's no doubt he's in there, he's purely in prison because of his involvement in the English Defence League. I know there's a lot of people getting penalised across the country, so we can't do all of them, but I'd like to put that £3000 from the legal fund plus another £2000 from the EDL fund into that."
September Video Diary, 3:31m - 4:26m
"So once again with regards to the legal fund. [...] There is £3000 there. We'll now discuss what we do with it. If anyone wants the money back [...] you can have a refund. As I said, if Bernard, if Big B, needs it, we'll give the money up for him in bail, if not, we'll look at something we can use it for constructive in the EDL. "
September Video Diary, 10:45m - 11:24m
A man who came out of a house wielding a sword was described as "purple in the face with anger." Blackburn magistrates heard that a woman looked out of her window and saw Bernard Martin Holmes remonstrating with some other people.
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A Blackburn man was left lying by the side of the road with a fractured skull after an unprovoked town centre attack.
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Maggie Garth, sister of Shaun Baxendale who suffered catastrophic injuries LAST month the Lancashire Telegraph launched the Consequences campaign to raise awareness of the devastating effects of spontaneous violence.
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A ‘dangerous' man who left his victim with a permanent brain injury has been released from jail early and is taking part in English Defence League protests.
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"[Unintelligible] ... Christopher Fawlkes, a 36 year old Blackburn man who got attacked in Queen's Park, a predominently Asian area of Blackburn almost 2 years ago. He was chased and bullied and kicked like a football. At which event he died. The Police and Telegraph said it was not a racially aggravated assault. Obviously, it was. Christopher had never had a fight in his life. He was placid and had a calm attitude and approach to life. Mohsin Mohammad was called a coward by the judge, who said it was a vicious attack. Mohammad ... to try to wriggle out of it, although there was great evidence against him. The judge was right to call him a coward. People have been asking me why in the English Defence League are you? Because if nobody had stood up to this, who would? These are our streets and we should take them back. [Leads chant] Whose streets? [...] Whose streets? [...]"
CONSERVATIVE North West Euro MP said he was left fearing for his safety after a large group of English Defence League protesters descended on his family home.
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An MEP has said he and his family felt threatened when a group of people carrying English Defence League banners protested outside his Lancashire home. Sajjad Karim, who represents the North West in the European Parliament, said up to 40 demonstrators arrived outside his house on Saturday lunchtime.
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May 2010 - Men in Court for Dudley Rooftop Protest
"Leon McCreery, aged 28, from Stockport, and 39-year-old John Shaw from Knaresborough, appeared at Dudley Magistrates Court today charged with burglary and public order offences."
Read more: Dudley News: Men in court for EDL rooftop protestJune 2010 - Jewish leaders condemn EDL
"The far right, anti-Islam protest group, whose violent nature was exposed by the Guardian last week (and covered by the NS here), has professed support for Israel in the past and is now urging British Jews to "lead the counter-jihad fight in England". But its advances have been swiftly rebuffed by Jewish leaders. Mark Gardner, communications director for the Community Security Trust, told the Chronicle:"The EDL intimidate entire Muslim communities, causing tension and fear. Jews ought to remember that we have long experience of being on the receiving end of this kind of bigotry."Read more: New Statesman: Jewish Leaders condemn the English Defence League.July 2010 - Charges dropped for EDL rooftop protestors
TWO English Defence League members, who were arrested during a rooftop protest, have had all charges dropped against them. Leon McCreery from Stockport and John Shaw from Knaresborough were arrested during the incident over the May Bank holiday, after being taken down from the roof of a disused factory in Hall Street by riot police.
Read more: Dudley News: Charges Dropped for EDL rooftop protestors
"In my eyes Leon and Snowy will always be seen as leaders for there bravery and dedication to our cause."
Leon the Brit:"You know a regiment supplied all our gear to that do."Solider:"UVF doesn't count."Soldier:"... the fact that your organisation has a few ex-soldiers in its ranks counts for nothing. The same is true of CND and the Communist Party. Are you going to support them on the same basis?Solider:"Currently sat in a Pub outside Bristol looking over at Someone wearing a Polo Shirt with English Defence League Bristol Division on it Invited him to view this debate on my laptop and asked his views, after listening to his Ranting and Raving he did not appreaciate the irony of the fact he was talking to two ex and one serving servicemen. They are definately not the sharpest knifes in the box."
"We're just normal geezers, from working-class estates, who got fired up with the way one government has treated us, and another government doing exactly the same. And we're not going away."
"A property tycoon and a former investment fund manager have been named as the driving forces behind a plan to create a new force on the far-right of British politics.
The Independent revealed last week that the English Defence League plans to run candidates for the first time in local elections, after a deal with another far-right group, the British Freedom Party, formed by former members of the British National Party.
Ann Marchini, who runs a buy-to-let property empire, confirmed to The Sunday Times that she is a member of the British Freedom Party and a friend of its chairman, Paul Weston.
Alan Ayling, also known as Alan Lake, was a director of Pacific Capital Investment Management until earlier this year. In October, he was named by a prosecutor in Oslo as someone Norwegian police wanted to question about the murders of 77 people by Anders Behring Breivik in July. Mr Ayling was thought to have been one of Breivik's sources of inspiration.
Both are said to have been at a "pivotal" meeting of EDL activists held at Mr Ayling's flat in London in 2009."
Read: The Independent | Tycoons back new far-right grouping
"A Mirror investigation uncovered the snaps on a German extremist website, set up to lure new recruits to the infamous US-based hate group.
Hopgood, a tattooist living in Co Durham, proudly wears a Klan robe as he stands alongside another KKK Grand Dragon and the European White Knights of the Burning Cross Imperial Wizard.
The same group staged a cross-burning ceremony in a field in Germany this year and posted a video of the disturbing spectacle on the internet.
Hopgood, 51, is also a supporter of Nick Griffin’s far-right British National party and the English Defence League.
He believed he could hide under a Klan hood during secret meetings.
But as our photos show, he fails to cover the word KLAN tattooed across the knuckles of his right hand.
Also on view are his distinctive spider-web tattoos creeping over both his hands.
In photos we took of the bearded, heavy-set biker out walking in the old mining town of Easington Colliery, the same tattoos are clearly showing – proving he is the hooded Klan leader.
The married dad, who has multiple piercings, including a bull-ring through his nose, also sports a Nazi symbol sewn into his leather biker’s vest.
The European White Knights bring together white supremacists in Europe and the US who believe in a racist and anti-Jewish creed called Christian Identity.
Read more: Mirror | We expose vile racist biker as British leader of the Ku Klux Klan
4th January 2012 - Women to face trial for assault
Left: Hayley Wells, aka Princess Angel. Right: Kelly Watterson
TWO women who have denied a religiously-motivated assault on a Kurdish woman at a city centre takeaway will face trial later this year. Hayley Wells, aged 27, and Kelly Watterson, aged 29 were released on conditional bail to appear before Plymouth Crown Court on June 27. They must not go within 100 metres of the takaway.
Read more: This is Plymouth Women to face trial for assault
3rd November 2011 - Women are accused of race attack
TWO women charged with a racist attack on a Kurdish woman at a city centre takeaway have been sent to Plymouth Crown Court.
Hayley Wells, aged 27, and Kelly Watterson, aged 29, appeared before Plymouth magistrates jointly accused of racially aggravated common assault against a woman in the kebab shop. Wells, of Shell Close, Leigham, and Watterson, of St Peter's Road, Manadon, both deny the attack on Sawda Kurdo at the Istanbul Kebab shop in Exeter Street on August 31. Watterson has also denied a further charge of affray in connection with the same incident.
Magistrates have now formally committed their case for trial at Plymouth Crown Court. Wells and Watterson were released on conditional bail to appear before a judge on January 3.
Read more: This is Plymouth Women are accused of race attack
8th September 2011 - Two deny resisting officers
TWO men have appeared before Plymouth magistrates accused of resisting police officers.
CHARGED: Michael Rafferty and (above right) Ricky Burley
Ricky Burley, aged 43, and 33-year-old Michael Rafferty appeared together charged with offences in Exeter Street on August 31.
Burley, of High Street, Stonehouse, denied threatening behaviour and resisting or obstructing a police officer.
Rafferty, of Queen Street, Devonport, denied obstructing or resisting a second officer.
Plymouth magistrates were told the incident happened outside the Wild Coyote pub, now called the East End bar.
They were released on bail on the same condition until their trial before magistrates on a date to be set in the next few months.
Read more: This is Plymouth Two deny resisting officers
8th September 2011 - Women plead not guilty to racial attack on shop
TWO women have appeared in court accused of a racially-aggravated attack at a city kebab shop.
Hayley Wells, aged 27, and Kelly Watterson, aged 29, faced Plymouth magistrates charged with racially-aggravated assault during an incident in Exeter Street.
Wells, of Shell Close, Leigham, and Watterson, of St Peter's Road, Manadon, both denied a joint charge of racially aggravated common assault against a woman in the kebab shop.
Watterson also denied a further charge of affray.
Magistrates ruled that the charge was so serious the pair must be tried at Plymouth Crown Court.
They were released on bail on condition they do not go within 100 metres of the takeaway while papers are prepared for a judge.
Watterson and Wells must return to face magistrates on November 1.
Read more: This is Plymouth Women plead not guilty to racial assault at kebab shop
27 August 2011 - Four charged after racist attack at Plymouth Takeaway
FOUR people are to appear at court next month on charges relating to an alleged attack on a Kurdish family in their takeaway shop.
Hayley Wells, aged 27, from Shell Close, Leigham has been charged with racially aggravated common assault by beating.
Kelly Watterson, aged 28, from St Peters Road in Manadon, is charged with racially aggravated affray and racially aggravated common assault by beating.
Michael Rafferty, aged 33, from Queen Street, Devonport has been charged with obstructing or resisting a constable in the execution of his duty.
Ricky Burley, aged 43, from High Street, Stonehouse has been charged with using threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour or disorderly behaviour and obstructing or resisting a constable in the execution of his duty.
All four have been released on bail to reappear at Plymouth Magistrates Court on September 7.
Read more: This is Plymouth Four charged after racist attack at Plymouth takeaway
31 July 2011 - Takeaway targeted by mob
A TERRIFIED Kurdish family were forced to barricade themselves inside a kebab shop as a mob allegedly shouted racist abuse outside.
One person threw a glass into the Istanbul Kebab shop in Exeter Street as violence spread from a nearby pub yesterday afternoon.
The family said the group, thought to have been in the nearby Wild Coyote pub, were shouting 'EDL, EDL' and vile racist abuse.
The far-right English Defence League (EDL) set off from the same pub for a march through the city centre three weeks ago.
Police were last night questioning four men from Plymouth aged 27, 28, 33 and 43, arrested at the scene – two on suspicion of affray, one for threatening behaviour and one for suspected criminal damage
Read more: This is Plymouth Takeaway targeted by mob
Supporters of the BNP, the English Defence League and Combat 18 were among the recipients of Anders Breivik's 1,500-page manifesto which he emailed to contacts 90 minutes before he began his murderous spree.
The Daily Telegraph has learned at least 250 British-based contacts were sent Breivik's manifesto, in which he explains his extensive links to far-right groups in the UK, less than two hours before he killed 76 people in Norway's worst terrorist atrocity.
Already it has emerged that Breivik had made online contact with members of the English Defence League (EDL), chatting to members on Facebook and posting on the group's official website under an assumed name.
Now the Daily Telegraph has obtained a list of 1,003 email addresses which Breivik sent his manifesto to. The document was sent at 2.08pm Norwegian time on Friday, shortly before the bomb in Oslo was detonated at about 3.30pm.
While many of the addresses do not give away the identity of the recipient, some hint at membership or support of far-Right groups in the UK.
Three addresses include reference to the British National Party, while one is addressed to Combat 18, the neo-Nazi organisation. Individuals linked to the EDL are also included.
Daryl Hobson, the EDL supporter who claimed on Facebook that Breivik had attended an EDL demonstration in the UK in 2010, is on the list.
The document is also emailed to a C Donnellan. Clive Donnellan is an EDL supporter who has also spoken of his support for the BNP.
Many of the addresses contain clear right-wing references. Some include the number 88. Column 88 was a UK-based neo-nazi organisation.
The manifesto is also sent to a group calling itself the East Midlands National Alliance.
The list has been forwarded to the police by Tanguys Veys, a Belgian MP for the far-right, anti-Muslim Vlaams-Belang party. Mr Veys is on the list of recipients as are a numbers of his party activists.
Yesterday he said he was surprised to be on the list, adding: "I was connected with a terrorist act and I didn't want to be connected with a terrorist act."
Scotland Yard is believed to have been handed a copy of the list. It is thought that the force will examine whether any of the recipients had links with Breivik.
There is no suggestion that any of the British-based recipients knew Breivik or had any contact with him prior to receiving his manifesto unsolicited.
But in the document he claimed to have 600 EDL supporters as friends on Facebook.
Recently it emerged that he had posted on the group's official website earlier this year where he was told he would be welcome to attend a demonstration in Britain.
One EDL supporter said that Breivik, 32, had attended a demo in support of far-right Dutch politician Geert Wilders in London in March 2010. Breivik's solicitor confirmed that he had visited London in the past.
Stephen Lennon, the EDL leader, said the group had no association with Breivik.
Read more: Breivik sent manifesto to supporters of BNP, English Defence League and Combat 18
"Around 150 supporters of the English Defence League marched through Plymouth on Saturday. The EDL said the march was in protest against the "Islamification" of Britain.
Devon and Cornwall Police said there had been six arrests. One person was arrested for a racially aggravated public order offence, one for possession of a weapon and one for assault.Three people were also arrested for breach of the peace.
Other EDL marches were held in Cambridge, Middlesbrough and Halifax."
Read more: BBC News | Hundreds march in rival protests in Plymouth
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