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The Black Lives Matter (BLM) campaign group is calling for statues and monuments in the UK that celebrate slavery to be taken down. It comes after protesters pulled down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol on Sunday (June 7) and a statue which had stood in London's Docklands for more than 200 years was taken down after a public campaign on Tuesday (June 9). The London statue was of Robert Milligan, one of the richest merchants in the late 18th Century, was also a slave owner who oversaw the building of the West India Docks in East...

Senior policing and political figures have condemned attackers who lashed out at police and threatened them with a baseball bat yesterday, with Home Secretary Priti Patel branding the violent scenes as “sickening, shocking and disgraceful”. Passersby could be seen posing for selfies as two officers were allegedly assaulted while trying to speak to a suspect in Hackney, East London. Footage shows one of the officers falling to the floor as he grapples with a suspect, who Met Police say had been pointed out to officers following an assault. As a crowd gathered around one of the officers, a second man...

Tommy Robinson calls on English patriots to defend London after rioters deface Winston Churchill statue. It seems we've hit boiling point. He knows the police have capitulated to the mob and they're now running for their lives. He's calling on all the lads of England to defend its history and culture before it is lost. Next weekend will be interesting.

div class="entry-content">London is under siege.George Floyd riots erupted in London on Saturday.Black Lives Matter and Antifa terrorists clashed with police officers on horseback.The left-wing terrorists threw bottles and bricks at officers, causing the spooked horses to run amok.TRENDING: CNN Guest Proposes Abusing White Children in Wake of George Floyd's Death, "White Kids Don't Deserve Innocence" (VIDEO) One officer was thrown off of a horse after bottles and bricks were hurled at police.WATCH:CLICK ABOVE LINK FOR THE VIDEO London under Sadiq Khan.Our police are sacrificed so Khan & Labour can harvest Muslim + BAME votes.Where are @BBCNews / MSM? #londonprotests pic.twitter.com/gWkyYZqig2—...

THIS is the moment a group of soldiers were heckled as they cleaned a war memorial daubed with graffiti during a Black Lives Matter march. A clip posted on social media last night shows the eight young troopers scrubbing red marks off the Grade II listed Earl Haig Memorial in Whitehall, Central London.

A reporter screamed live on air as she claimed she was attacked by a screwdriver-wielding man yelling “Allahu Akbar” while covering the Black Lives Matter protest in London. Nine News’ Europe correspondent Sophie Walsh, 34, was assaulted on Park Lane while broadcasting around 9.45am today, according to the Australian network. Footage was not captured of the attack, but Ms. Walsh can be heard screaming and seen clearly shaken afterwards while relaying the incident to one of her colleagues. The alleged attack came as police arrested a man after a car driving “very fast” mounted a pavement and hit a pensioner,...

A line of Metropolitan Police officers “took a knee” in tribute to George Floyd today as thousands of protesters gathered outside Downing Street. At least 15,000 Black Lives Matter protesters including actor John Boyega and singer Liam Payne gathered in London, ignoring social distancing guidelines, as a show of anger against the death of Mr. Floyd in the US. And at least 2,000 of those demonstrated in front of Downing Street, shouting “take a knee” at Metropolitan Police officers guarding security gates. Four officers obliged, to the approval of the crowds, who urged other officers to follow the example of...

London (AFP) - Hundreds of people took to the streets of London on Wednesday to protest against the death in US police custody of George Floyd, as Prime Minister Boris Johnson condemned the killing but dodged questions about whether he had raised the issue with key ally Donald Trump. Protesters, many of them in facemasks, defied coronavirus restrictions, and held aloft signs saying "Justice for George Floyd" and "Enough is enough!" as they marched from Hyde Park to the Whitehall government district in central London. The demonstration is the latest in the British capital since Floyd, an unarmed African-American, died...

In London, hundreds defied rules against large gatherings Sunday to rally at Trafalgar Square and mass outside the new U.S. Embassy on the south bank of the River Thames, where they chanted “no justice, no peace” in solidarity with U.S. movement against racial bias in the criminal justice system. Demonstrators there and in Berlin waved signs reading “I can't breathe” — some of the last words that the dying Floyd, captured by an onlooker’s video, gasped out in Minneapolis as a police officer pressed his knee down on Floyd’s neck for more than eight minutes. “LONDON: lockdown has not been...

"Police arrest eleven people after 'assault on officers' as thousands of Black Lives Matter activists marched on US embassy in London and crowds gathered peacefully around UK demanding 'justice' for George Floyd killed by cops 4,000 miles away in US Eleven people were arrested in London today as thousands of Black Lives Matter protesters peacefully marched on the US Embassy in London, with hundreds more taking to the streets of Cardiff and Manchester, to demonstrate against the killing of George Floyd. Chants of, 'I can't breathe,' rebounded across the Thames this afternoon, the words Floyd was heard gasping before his...

Thousands of demonstrators were packed into Trafalgar Square on Sunday, chanting 'I can't breathe,' the words Floyd was heard gasping as a white police officer knelt on his neck in Minneapolis.Having spent the last few months in coronavirus lockdown, very few of the attendees appeared to be concerned about social distancing. It comes as dozens of American cities have been set ablaze amid violent rioting with police officers over the death of Floyd on Monday.

Black Lives Matter protests erupted in London Saturday with protesters calling to "abolish the police."Protesters took to the streets of the British capital holding placards declaring that "riot is the language of the unheard" while promising more demonstrations across the UK to follow after the death of George Floyd in America this week.

Amid increasing frustration over lockdown measures to curb the coronavirus pandemic, multiple protests took place across Europe on Saturday to demand businesses reopen. In Warsaw, Poland, law enforcement used tear gas on protesters, while police made arrests at a demonstration in London's Hyde Park. Police in several German cities enforced distancing rules as thousands of people gathered to vent anger over economies in freefall and perceived losses of freedom. Police in Stuttgart said that the number of demonstrators exceeded the permitted threshold of 5,000; they directed other protesters to another open space. Police said they were enforcing a mask requirement...

Demonstrations took place on Saturday in several European cities against restrictions aimed at controlling the spread of the coronavirus, with tear gas used on protesters in Poland and arrests made at a gathering in London’s Hyde Park. Police in several German cities enforced distancing rules as thousands of people gathered to express a mix of frustrations — at restrictions battering the economy and a perceived loss of civic freedom. In some places, people also voiced conspiracy theories and anti-vaccine views. Angered by a slew of lockdown measures, purported vaccine plans or alleged state surveillance, thousands took to the streets on...

Yesterday images have emerged of coffins being buried in a “mass grave” in New York City. Workers in hazmat outfits were seen stacking wooden coffins in deep trenches in Hart Island. New York City officials have hired contract laborers to bury the dead in its potter’s field on Hart Island. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwP1LWMKOGo&feature=emb_title These images shown are of Potter’s Field where 24 people are buried a week in normal times. But the mainstream media tried to add more panic and pressure on the American citizens! Today another so-called “mass grave” has emerged in London. The plots, which are 10 meters long and...

This was the worst outbreak of plague in England since the black death of 1348. London lost roughly 15% of its population. While 68,596 deaths were recorded in the city, the true number was probably over 100,000. Other parts of the country also suffered. The earliest cases of disease occurred in the spring of 1665 in a parish outside the city walls called St Giles-in-the-Fields. The death rate began to rise during the hot summer months and peaked in September when 7,165 Londoners died in one week. Rats carried the fleas that caused the plague. They were attracted by city...

Despite the government advising Londoners to avoid unesessary social contact, an East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre spokesperson confirmed today that it is open to the public. The holy call to prayer will continue to fill the halls of London’s busiest mosque this morning, as it has done since it opened in 1985. On a normal day, some 10,000 worshipers from all over East London attend the Whitechapel site across five daily prayers.

Supermarkets are expecting to get police support to deter unruly behaviour if London goes into lockdown because of the coronavirus. According to Reuters, retailers are concerned that panic buying could spike if further restrictions are imposed. On Thursday, there were frenzied scenes in some stores as shoppers sought to buy bottled water, tinned goods and toilet roll. Environment Secretary George Eustace had told the Commons there was "significant resilience in our food supply chain" and no shortage of food. "There isn't a shortage of food, the challenge that we've had is getting food to shelves in time when people have...

As the novel coronavirus rapidly spread worldwide and concern continues to grow, a number of international sporting events have been impacted, including several professional running events. One of the first major events to see a shift in schedule was the Tokyo Marathon at the beginning of March; the marathon was only held for the elites, and the non-elite runners were given entry to the 2021 race. With the global crisis becoming more dire, race organizers have proactively started to reschedule or altogether cancel races set to take place in the next few weeks, due to the uncertainty of the virus’s...

WASHINGTON - A U.S. customs inspector praised for keeping the 20th hijacker in the 9/11 plot from getting into the country told Congress yesterday that the "hostile" Saudi gave him the creeps and vowed, "I'll be back." Jose Melendez-Perez told the 9/11 Commission, the panel probing the attacks on America, that he was spooked enough by the man identified only as "Al-Qahtani" to put him on a plane out of Orlando after he arrived in the U.S. from London and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, with a one-way ticket and $2,800 in cash. Al-Qahtani was dressed head-to-toe in black when he...