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BBC Wales reports on an undercover investigation into a far right group’s links to neo-Nazi supporters. The secretly filmed footage shown on the Week In Out programme exposes criminal activity amongst supporters of the Welsh Defence League.

Posing as a new member of the group, an undercover journalist accompanied a number of Welsh supporters to a protest.

Some were caught on camera and online, making racist comments about Muslims.

Three teenagers were arrested Friday after an arson attack on a Staffordshire mosque – described by police as a racially-motivated crime. The fire began at a newly-built mosque in Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, at 6.30am. The attack comes in the same period as far right politicians on the council attempted to force a motion in which Halal food was banned from local schools.

Despite a campaign to highlight racism in Russia and a hard fought lobbying effort by the British Prime Minister David Cameron, Prince William and footballer David Beckham England has failed in its bid to secure hosting the 2018 World Cup tournament.

Following on from OBV’s coverage last week of the barring of Black students from a NUS conference an editorial in The Voice, Britain's leading Black newspaper, has called on Black students to leave the NUS and set up their own independent student body.

The recent publication of a book claiming that British museums are over-reacting to a sensitive public by hiding away mummies and other ancient human remains has spurred Dr William ‘Lez’ Henry to write about practices he has noticed across Egypt and questions the museums’ motives.

Lib Dem, East Dunbartonshire MP Jo Swinson has expressed dismay that X Factor star Gamu Nhengu cannot promote her Christmas charity single because of her contract with the ITV show.

Yesterday Scottish MP Jo Swinson said in a Commons motion that she was "dismayed that despite this act of charity on her part, Gamu has been prohibited from promoting the single by her contractual obligations to the television show The X Factor on the basis that the Aberlour single is in direct competition with the show's Christmas number one bid".

Two weeks ago the academic Lord Bhikhu Parakh spoke passionately about what had been achieved through ‘multiculturalism’, with a warning to the coalition Government that to ignore it would turn back the clock on race equality.  Last night I witnessed multiculturalism at its very best.