NUJ statement criticising Leicestershire Police's decision to issue their own press cards/badges for today's EDL protest in Leicester.

Just contributed piccy and work to the BBC Politics Show wot included a bit about squatting

The JB Spray Squat has been resisting the 'tactics' of Tracy the Portable Building Dealer and her two skinny sidekicks, for over a week now. Intel suggests, the eviction is due to take place this week, as Tracy, via the owner David Phillips, cannot afford an all singing all dancing eviction, and they are urging us to leave the building, clearly they are flustered and are probably losing money ever…

Hicham Yezza and Rizwaan Sabir were arrested under the Terrorism Act in May 2008 at the University of Nottingham. In the pair's first joint interview since those events, Riseup Radio spoke to them about the persecution they've faced since the arrests, the plight of other Muslims accused of terrorist offences, the government's anti-terror strategies, the growth of Islamophobia in the media and in t…

The JB Spray squat in Radford were expecting eviction this morning. Two County Court employees and two police turned up at around 10am along with around 20 supporters of the squatters. They were also accompanied by 2 employees of Portable Buildings Limited, the company which is employed to manage the building. After some initial inspection and drawing a map of entrances they gave up. A call to the…

Tasers are becoming an increasingly prominent tool in the arsenal of police in Nottinghamshire and elsewhere. This should raise important questions, regardless of whether you accept the anarchist critique of the police as a tool of state control, view them as a necessary evil or actually regard the boys in blue as good for society. However, these questions do not seem to be asked. Despite a number…

According to the BBC a Notts police officer is under investiagtion after beating up a 27 year old man while he was lying on the floor handcuffed.

The assault happened at on the 25th July in Sneinton at around 1am.

Police in Nottinghamshire have apologised for accidentally shooting a 14-year-old girl with a Taser.

[so much for highly trained officers ..... they missed their target]

J B Spray Squat, court date, Mon. 2nd Aug.resist!

The J B Spray squat, in Radford, Nottingham, is facing another court hearing tomorrow in front of Nottingham Magistrates, and so is calling for support, in terms of people joining the squats efforts to resist any attempts at eviction by the bailiffs or the state...PLEASE COME AND JOIN THE RESISTANCE!

CANT GO, WONT GO!

Forward Intelligence Team was not authorised to monitor NoBorders Meeting.

Protesters acquitted in Crown Court.

http://london.noborders.org.uk/node/369





While showing you this link to a more recent descision .... I though I'd show you some of the story so far .....  



The Wood case found that policemen have to have sommat todo with suspecting  crime etc ...NOT just distastful politics [to them!]



Wood…

4.00pm Sunday 18th July 2010



Police discover Cannabis Growing Operations near Woodborough Road, Nottingham

Years after their issue to all serving police officers in Nottinghamshire, I am still finding that most officers don't know of their provison or of the nature of agreements already made with police management.

Video footage from the Climate Swoop on Saturday: Protesters battle with police to pull down a perimeter fence.

Item in the FITwatch blog

A selection of 'issue based' images, messed about in photoshop and edited to video 640x480 .AVI

Nottingham photographer 'Tash' strongly supports the British Journal of Photography Campaign