Bath City offer discount to Polish people, EHRC say this is OK.

Bath City Football Club have come up with a novel yet controversial scheme to try and boost support at their matches. The Blue Square Premier club have offered the city's Polish community an 80 per cent discount to attend this weekend's clash against Grimsby Town. On production of a Polish ID card, fans can watch the game for as little as £2.50, instead of the usual £13 to stand on the terraces and £14 for a seat. The club have cleared the move with the Equality and Human Rights Commission but not everyone is happy with the decision. Dr David Green, director of social think-tank Civitas,...

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Whites only village no longer reflected English society

Midsomer Murders producer suspended over diversity remarks Co-creator Brian True-May said ITV crime drama 'wouldn't be English village' if it featured minority groups The producer of one of ITV1's best-known crime dramas, Midsomer Murders, has been suspended from his job after he suggested in an interview that there was no place in the programme for ethnic minorities and it was the "last bastion of Englishness". Brian True-May, the co-creator of the show which began on ITV in 1997, said the series "wouldn't work" if there was any racial diversity portrayed in the sleepy village life of...

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Five people arrested on suspicion of using college to facilitate immigration offences.

Five people have been arrested in a series of coordinated raids targeting a college suspected of being used for UK immigration crime. The raids were at residential addresses in Saltwell Road, Gateshead, and Moorside Court, Newcastle, as well as at the college, in Park Road, Felling.  The arrests in Gateshead and Newcastle follow an extensive investigation into Castle College , Park Road, Felling, Gateshead. The college, which offers language, business and computing courses, described as a privately-owned institute of further education, had its licence to enroll overseas students suspended....

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