As thousands of public sector workers across London went on strike to defend their pensions, around 30,000 police officers also took to the streets against the cuts. Police officers are banned from taking strike action but a number of those we spoke to today raised the idea as a very real […]
Brian Paddick puts the case for the Lib Dems on Channel Four. I do wish he would be clearer about whether he’d ever been a police officer though. There were also several frames without someone in uniform marching past. Is he for or against the police. I just can’t […]
Just getting home from a photo-taking expedition in the snow and my neighbour points the camera out to me. Now, the flash camera has been there for a while, we’ve complained about it before and we’ve been told the objective is to move people on. Seeing as this is our […]
Transpontine looks back at racist murder in South East London. It’s all getting rubbish Inside Croydon. The Guardian asks whether the police are discriminating against the urban music scene. Fair pay campaigners have been forcibly ejected from canary wharf. East London Lines. Lancaster Unity reports there’s a man hunt on […]
It has been revealed that Mark Duggan, the Tottenham man shot and killed by police officers in August, was not holding a gun when he was fatally shot – a fact which goes directly against the initial police version of events who claimed to be returning fire. Duggan’s killing indirectly […]
Never noticed this before. As strolling past Trafalgar Square I saw the statue of Charles the first....
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