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The government was warned of the potential for disorder months before Britain’s biggest prison riot in decades but failed to act, and now the violence is threatening to spread to other vulnerable jails.

Prisoners posted images and selfies of themselves rioting in real time from the inside of a British prison today after guards “lost control” of the facility. Inmates at HMP Birmingham, a privately run Category B prison in Winson Green, Birmingham rioted

A Muslim hate preacher, who has called the Queen a terrorist was prosecuted for labeling a woman in tight jeans a “prostitute”, has launched a YouTube channel where he records himself confronting and abusing police.

Two ringleaders within the Trojan Horse plot to impose Islamic values on Birmingham state schools are once again teaching, despite being banned from the profession.

Two teachers served with lifetime bands for plotting to illegally Islamise a school in Birmingham have been allowed back into schools because of a technical irregularity and alleged “unfairness”.

An Islamic street preacher has vowed to “continue to fight you police officers” after being found guilty of the religiously aggravated abuse of a woman he labelled a “slut” and “prostitute” for wearing tight jeans.

The Birmingham Police Department is facing backlash over a photo of an officer comforting a one-month-old baby that went viral on Facebook.

A touching photo of an Alabama police officer comforting a one-month-old baby girl after her parents overdosed on drugs is capturing the hearts of many on the Internet.

Holiday makers heading to Birmingham and Heathrow airports faced delays this morning as Black Lives Matter protesters blocked the main roads towards the hubs by lying on the tarmac and chaining themselves together.

An Islamic street preacher has been charged with a public order offence after allegedly harassing a woman for “wearing tight jeans” and yelling “Allah Akbar” at a police officer who he accused of “racism”.

One of the schools hit by the so-called ‘Trojan Horse’ Islamisation plot, where female pupils were reportedly barred from playing tennis with male teachers, has been named an official ‘UK School of Tennis’. Park View in Alum Rock, Birmingham was

Birmingham’s education commissioner has banned teachers from mentioning the ‘Trojan Horse’ Islamist plot in the very schools that hardline Muslim teachers and parents attempted to take over. Sir Mike Tomlinson, who was appointed in the wake of the controversy, said the

Police have warned they will “come down hard” on any troublemakers at the PEGIDA UK walk in Birmingham this weekend, where there will be a “highly visible police presence”. The police threat comes the day after local Member of Parliament Liam

Days after Birmingham’s Central Mosque insisted that it had never dealt with a case of forced marriage, following its chairman claiming the practice was not a problem, it has been alleged that they were aware of a horrific case just last year. An 18-year-old

Muhammad Afzal, the Lord Mayor elect of the UK’s second city, Birmingham, has withdrawn after causing outrage by calling on Muslim to “resist” counter terror laws and allegedly blaming Christians for domestic violence. The veteran city Councillor and Chairman of Birmingham

Birmingham Central Mosque Chairman — also a Labour city Councillor and Lord Mayor elect of Britain’s second city — has said that domestic abuse is primarily a Christian problem, because they drink, and claimed that Muslim forced marriage is not a problem.

Two men who committed a sex attack on a woman with learning difficulties after she left a Birmingham nightclub have been jailed. Detectives described the January, 2015 attack as a “despicable crime” and said Yasser Mahmood and Abdi Seerar preyed on their

The Chairman of Birmingham Central Mosque, a Labour city Councillor who is set to become the UK’s second city’s Lord Mayor in May, has labeled the Prime Minister an ‘Islamophobe’ and called for a boycott of the government’s new anti

A journalist at the Birmingham Mail has admitted “campaigning” in opposition to PEGIDA UK – the anti-Islamist movement recently launched in the UK. Reporter Neil Elkes has admitted to PEGIDA’s leader Tommy Robinson that his paper had adopted an “editorial line” “against” Mr.

At a campaign event at the Boutwell Auditorium in Birmingham, AL, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a candidate for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, took a shot at his opponent Hillary Clinton, who was thought to be a shoo-in for the

A government-backed Muslim charity has held a fundraising event for the British advocacy group CAGE, despite being ordered by the Charity Commission to cease funding the group amid concerns over its links to terrorism. A speaker at the event praised jihad

A former head teacher at one of the so-called Trojan Horse schools has become the first teacher in the UK to be banned from the profession for exerting an “undue amount of religious influence” on his pupils. The Department for Education

Singer and environmental activist Madonna is being criticized as a “hypocrite,” after she took her private jet just 120 miles from Birmingham to her home in London after a recent concert.

The Department of Education (DfE) has instructed Britain’s education regulator, Ofsted, to prepare legal cases against the founders of three illegal Islamic schools in Birmingham, which were found to be teaching children extremist Islamic ideology. Fifteen such schools around the country

The mastermind behind the November Paris attacks had photos of Birmingham on his smartphone, suggesting that he was perhaps planning an attack on England’s second city. At least one of the pictures may have been taken by Abdelhamid Abaaoud himself,

Analysis of terrorism arrests in Britain carried out in the last two years shows the towns and cities that form the UK’s terror hotspots, and a sharp increase in the number of women detained for terrorist offences. Data from across Britain

All today and yesterday, the UK media and the Twittersphere have abounded with commenters – politicians, media pundits, even the Metropolitan police – saying how thoroughly they condemn Donald Trump’s proposed Muslim ban and his claim that parts of Britain’s

The Daily Telegraph reports that the terrorists who attacked Paris last month had links to Britain, especially in the Birmingham area: The Isil-inspired terrorists who attacked Paris last month killing 130 people had links to people in Britain, it has

One of the Paris terrorists had previously visited Britain and phoned a number in the city of Birmingham several times before launching the attacks, according to reports. Police are investigating the claims that one of the terrorists rang the number

A struggling girl was denied extra classes at her school in Birmingham, England because she did not wear a hijab, a senior government worker has alleged. Anthony Dunne made the claim while giving evidence against five teachers who worked for

CNN claims “several attendees” at a Trump campaign event in Birmingham, Alabama “punched and kicked a protester who tried to disrupt Trump’s speech.” Video evidence, however, doesn’t back up that claim.

GOP front runner Donald Trump is tearing into the media and vowing to fight terrorists. Before an enthusiastic crowd of 10,000 at the Birmingham-Jefferson Convention Complex on Saturday, Trump told the crowd, “They’re dishonest people. The media is so dishonest.”

Thousands of Muslims in Birmingham were told that they would burn in hell fire unless they voted for the Labour party, a court has heard. In May, Labour Councillor Ansar Ali Khan was re-elected in the district of Washwood Heath,

Apparently there are killer, crazy ants in Birmingham which are addicted to electricity, and can bite, sting, and spread salmonella. This, according to the Birmingham Mail, is a new development in the West Midlands’ pest problems, and they hail from

Global bank HSBC has fired six of its British staff after they filmed themselves staging a mock Islamic State beheading during a team building day at a go kart centre. Footage obtained by The Sun shows five men dressed in

A Jewish monument in Birmingham has been attacked by a Neo-Nazi group which filmed its supporters in the act of intimidation. Hiding their identities from the camera, the group’s video on YouTube shows the extremists defacing the gates of Cannon Hill Park with anti-Jewish