Daily News Summary
Tuesday, 2 June 2009
Main stories
`Knife-carrying `normal' for some young people, warn MPs'
A Home Affairs Select Committee report on knife crime is released today. The report says the number of young people carrying weapons is small and refers to an `arms race' developing `in some deprived parts of Britain's cities'. It advocates a public health approach, arguing longer prison sentences do not provide a long-term solution and calling into question the use of metal arches outside schools. Gdn10
The Sun leads with `knife mules at seven' and says the report calls for more knife carriers to be locked up. Sun11 The Home Affairs Committee report can be downloaded here.
Other Stories
`Hate crimes unsolved as loyalist mob victim buried'
A Queen's University academic's analysis of police data in Northern Ireland shows 90% of religious hate crimes are unsolved. Gdn13
`Atmosphere of violence stoked by fringe groups and mainstream television'
Chris McGreal reports on anti-abortion extremist groups in America. Gdn15
`Big Brother has gone too far... and that's an ex-spy chief talking'
Sir Richard Dearlove, former head of MI6 criticises the use of stop and search in London and expanding surveillance powers. DMail6
`Bullying found at immigration centre'
...According to Anna Owers, the Chief Inspector of Prisons in a report about Colnbrook Immigration Removal Centre. Ind9
`Man who died after police restraint "covered with injuries"'
An inquest into the death of a man with psychiatric problem hears evidence from his mother. Gdn8
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