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A Two young men and teenage women were all acquitted of killing an Asian pensioner Manzoor in a racist attack over bags of crisps at a grocery store.

One of the accused Demi Dearie, 19, was convicted of assaulting Ahmed, 67, moments before he suffered a fatal heart attack at the Super Asia shop in Glasgow last year.

The two men had been accused of committing culpable homicide by punching Mr Ahmed in the face and pushing him to the ground during a row outside the Pollokshaws Road store.

Why would anyone go to a sporting event to get racially abused by opposition fans, much less risk the possibility of Neo Nazis wanting to do you serious harm because you’re either Jewish or Black? These are distinct possibilities when the European football world decamps in Poland and Ukraine for the 2012 European football championships.

Justice is served ?

A drunk passenger who hurled racist abuse at fellow Tube travellers on the Central Line earlier this year has been jailed today for 21 weeks.

Jacqueline Woodhouse, launched an expletive-laden racist tirade at passengers of the packed tube. A seven-minute video of the verbal assault filmed by another passenger was uploaded to YouTube and was instrumental in bringing Woodhouse to justice. She also threatened to punch one passenger.

Twitter has cemented its place in global society and has become an influential vehicle for exposing all aspects of our society. In the past 12 months, it played a pivotal role in the Arab Spring uprisings, made a mockery of the British libel laws by outing Ryan Giggs in the super injunction affair, and provided revealing updates by Parliamentary Select Committee Members on the phone-hacking scandal.

It will be a sad day for British politics if Conservative party chair Sayeeda Warsi is hounded out of office. The party is experiencing its worst slump in the polls since coming to power and within her own party many are making Warsi the scapegoat. There is barely a week that goes by without someone, usually a Tory, calling for her head. This time Labour has seized upon her present plight, over alleged flaws in her expenses claims, and called for her to step down.

Last week, I had the pleasure of viewing the documentary “Jesse Owens” directed by Laurens Grant.

The American Embassy hosted the event and the panel discussion afterwards including the director and two former Olympians 1968  200 meters bronze medalist and civil rights icon John Carlos, and the UK's very  own silver medalist 200 meters John Regis.

Tens of thousands of children are having their lives blighted by racism in schools, the BBC has reported today. In response to a Freedom of Information request that looked at 90 areas, the BBC found more nearly 90,000 cases of racist bullying were reported. From verbal abuse to physical violence, many incidents made students lives unbearable. Yet the Government want to change the guidelines for reporting racism.

Sarah Soyei, of the anti-racism educational charity, Show Racism the Red Card (SRRC), said:

The Diamond Jubilee takes place this year, marking 60 years of The Queen’s reign. Over the last 60 years, the UK has changed dramatically and contributions of the Black community politically, economically and culturally have been significant.

To highlight the changing cultural landscape of the UK since the Queen's accession in 1952, ITV National News’ Shan Allana is working on a series of four short films.

A significant and historic move will be played out tomorrow afternoon as Church leaders and other community activists make a silent protest outside City Hall.

The protest is a result of the notable absence of an African or Caribbean councillor on Birmingham's Council Cabinet.

We can only hope that journalists and opinion formers take note of Baroness Sayeeda Warsi’s carefully nuanced articulation of the Rochdale sex grooming gangs and the wider questions it raises. I’ve said on these pages before that language is key if we want to highlight a particular problem within a community without demonising the whole community.

In an interview with the Evening Standard Warsi, who is Tory Party chair stated that,