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The verdict of unlawful killing at the inquest into the death of Ian Tomlinson has been welcomed across the community in light of the recent spate of black deaths in police custody, writes Matilda MacAttram

At some level the whole of the UK will vote today. The referendum on the Alternative vote is wide-spread across England, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

In addition to the referendum, Scotland has a vote for its Scottish Parliament, Wales for its Welsh Assembly, Northern Ireland for its Assembly and over 250 local authorities will also hold local elections too, including for five directly elected Mayors.

Slavery has left a legacy of racism, poverty and the notion of white supremacy. The campaign for reparations here in the UK needs to reenergised, writes Lee Jasper.

You may have seen ITV London Tonight reporter Ronke Phillips finish her marathon run a couple of weeks ago. In a blaze of red she featured on the evening news happily telling of her first marathon experience and of the charity she had put herself through months of training to raise money for.

Other than moments of pure genius as illustrated by the world’s greatest player Lionel Messi, the two most gifted football teams on the planet - Barcelona and Real Madrid - have both shown the very ugly side to the ‘beautiful game’.

Police had to intervene in an amateur cup final after racist chants and allegations of attacks on players and the referee.

Fairbank United, of Manningham, Bradford, were contesting the final of the Wilf Ward Memorial Trophy in Cleckheaton against Park Football Club, of Dewsbury, when police were called by aggrieved spectators.

About 60 people were watching the game, police said, both sides are accused of racist chants but fans allegedly squared up to players during an extra-time pitch invasion.

Conscious hip-hop -  the soundtrack to young politics in the UK. This is the music that is mobilising Britain's youth and getting them to think about issues they might not otherwise have done, writes Richard Sudan.

A black Swedish student union leader who has been victimised in a campaign of hate is appealing to the UK Black community to spread the news about the racism he and students at Sweden’s Lund University have been subjected to.

Just over a week ago Jallow Momodou of the National Afro-Swedish Association reported two Lund student associations for failing to take action when guests for a ‘jungle party’ dressed as slaves with up with blackened faces and ropes around their necks to be sold at auction.

OBama, 'one ‘helluva’ of a lucky and smart President' writes Ekow Nelson.  

The former UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson once observed that “a week is a long time in politics”. And what a week it has been for President Obama.

Watching Prime Ministers Question Time yesterday as David Cameron cheerfully announced UK GDP figures for the first quarter of the year I was reminded of the classic Monty Python comedy sketch about the dead Norwegian Blue parrot. Here a demented shopkeeper tries to convince a customer that the parrot he returned to the shop was not dead.