Day: September 2, 2025
Women’s team told ‘you don’t belong here’ by teens hurling racist slurs at football pitch
September 2, 2025A women’s football club which received an onslaught of racist abuse at a park in Islington has vowed not to let the incident stop them from playing. Screamer Alliance WFC is an amateur football team and support group for Chinese people living in London which was set up early last year. They’ve played at various […]
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Man and dog taken down from King’s Cross clock tower after Iran protest
September 2, 2025A man holding what appeared to be a pomeranian dog who climbed the clock tower at King’s Cross station in London to unfurl a banner calling for freedom for Iran has come down. As rain began to pour, the protester packed his banner away. He spoke to mediators and was brought down by a cherry […]
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Met police accused of targeting pro-Palestine protesters for stop and search
September 2, 2025The Metropolitan police have used controversial powers to stop and search protesters almost 50 times since they were introduced, with nearly all instances at a peaceful pro-Palestine demonstration, a civil liberties group has found. Police in England and Wales can carry out suspicionless stop and searches in relation to protest activity under section 11 of […]
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Protester who climbed King’s Cross station clocktower with a dog is arrested
September 2, 2025Noora Mykkanen Published September 2, 2025 10:42am Updated September 2, 2025 2:05pm To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video A man who scaled the King’s Cross station clocktower with his pet dog and an Iran protest banner has been arrested. The man managed to […]
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I was fed up with the lack of representation in art — so I opened my own London gallery
September 2, 2025Aki Abiola was told he needed to become a lawyer or doctor by his traditional Nigerian family. His next move? Open an art gallery – though it wasn’t plain sailing. The son of Chief MKO Abiola named his gallery after his father’s successful 1993 presidential election campaign, Hope 93, in which the businessman and politician […]
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