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Pub denies association with EDL protests

Source: Maidenhead Advertiser
Management of a North Town pub have hit back after English Defence League members advertised they would gathering there ahead of Saturday’s Maidenhead town centre demonstration.
EDL members posted on their Facebook page that the march would start from the Farmer’s Boy in Harrow Lane before heading into the High Street.
But members actually congregated [...]

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June 13, 2011 in EDL News
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Theresa May ambushed at constituency meeting by head of English Defence League

Source: Daily Mail
Theresa May was last night dramatically ambushed at a constituency meeting by the head of the far-right English Defence League.
The Home Secretary fears the group – whose marches she has banned in the past – will now seek to exploit the face-to-face confrontation for a propaganda coup.
The self-proclaimed head of the EDL, who [...]

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June 11, 2011 in EDL News
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Dewsbury Police Prepare For EDL

Source: Dewsbury Reporter
A KIRKLEES police chief claims it will be ‘business as usual’ in Dewsbury next weekend, despite a planned demonstration.
As we reported two weeks ago, the far-right English Defence League is planning action in the town on Saturday June 11.
A member of the Dewsbury division of the group said it was expecting hundreds of [...]

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June 7, 2011 in EDL News
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EDL supporter punched police horse 8 times at Blackburn demo

Source: Lancashire Telegraph
AN English Defence League supporter who violently attacked a police horse during demonstrations in Blackburn has been sentenced.
The town’s magistrates heard Robert Gavin Tromans punched the animal eight times about the neck as police formed a mounted cordon to control a crowd in Northgate.
Tromans, 29, of Beverley Road, West Bromwich, pleaded guilty to using [...]

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June 7, 2011 in EDL News
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Hunt for racist thug in English Defence League T-shirt who attacked Asian man in Rochdale

Source: Manchester Evening News
A racist thug who abused and attacked a passer-by in a shopping precinct is being hunted by police.
The man, who was wearing a T-shirt promoting the English Defence League, targeted a 31-year-old Asian man as he walked through the Wheatsheaf Centre in Rochdale town centre. Images from CCTV cameras have been released [...]

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June 7, 2011 in EDL News
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Outcry as Bank Holiday trade hit by rallies

Source: Blackpool Gazette

BLACKPOOL traders have slammed a controversial rally on one of the busiest weekends of the year.
Shop owners said they lost thousands of pounds on Saturday as far-right group the English Defence League (EDL) marched through the resort.
Many were forced to roll the shutters down for the day as thousands of demonstrators and a [...]

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May 30, 2011 in EDL News
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Armed Forces must challenge attack from the English Defence League

Source: Exposing Racism & Intolerance Online
Well done Oi Oi Oi
Images sent to The Times recently by EDL leadership of their forces supporters was intended to ‘prove’ the British Armed Forces support their values & aims. What it proved was the prized reputation and popularity of our forces is one the Far Right continue to crassly [...]

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May 19, 2011 in EDL News
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Lancashire ‘soldiers posed with EDL flags’ probe

Source: Lancashire Telegraph
ARMY chiefs are investigating allegations that soldiers posed with English Defence League flags after Blackburn’s ‘homecoming’ parade.
The Ministry of Defence has been handed a dossier of pictures purporting to be of soldiers with material from the organisation.
One of the Blackburn photos is being studied to see whether one, or more, soldiers are posing [...]

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May 19, 2011 in EDL News
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Charlene Gran And EDL Moved On By Police

Source: Blackpool Gazette
THE distraught grandmother of missing schoolgirl Charlene Downes has hit out at police after they banned her from campaigning outside the takeaway at the centre of her granddaughter’s murder probe.
Jessie Brock, 72, from North Shore, was sitting on a bench outside Mr Beanz wearing a ‘Justice for Charlene’ T-shirt when officers handed her [...]

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May 19, 2011 in EDL News
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EDL’S GURAMIT SINGH RESPONDS TO EXCOMMUNICATION ULTIMATUM WITH DOUBLESPEAK & RELIGIOUS HYPOCRISY

Source: Turban Campaign
Admin note: This article was first published by Jai at PickledPolitics. However, it was later edited due to length issues. We feel that this particular article deserves to be published in its entirety as it highlights some very important points.
Further to the recent Pickled Politics article highlighting the EDL’s “Sikh” spokesman Guramit Singh’s admission of [...]

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April 25, 2011 in EDL News
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