A man was attacked as he left an anti-fascist demonstration in Blackpool, Lancashire police said.
The protester had been attending the Unite Against Fascism demonstration when he was attacked on the promenade on Saturday afternoon.
A Lancashire police spokeswoman said: "The aggrieved, who had been at the BNP rally, was coming away from the demonstration along the promenade when he was approached by an unknown male and was attacked, causing cuts to his face and a possible broken nose."
Detectives are appealing for witnesses to the assault, which was carried out by a man in his mid-20s wearing a black baseball cap, black scarf and black top. Police could not confirm reports of a second assault.
Naomi Byron, spokeswoman for the Socialist Party, said: "We condemn this unprovoked assault. We thank members of the public and other demonstrators for coming to the support of these two peaceful young men.
""This will not deter us from continuing to oppose the far right."
Fleetwood Gazette
Published: 18 November 2008
Source: http://www.fleetwoodtoday.co.uk/latest-north-west-news/Man-attacked-after-antifascism-demo.4702644.jp
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Wednesday, 19 November 2008
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
Hundreds protest at Blackpool BNP conference
Campaigners came out in their hundreds at the weekend to protest against the BNP.
People marched through Blackpool town centre before descending outside the Kimberley Hotel, South Promenade, where the controversial right wing party held its annual conference.
Dozens of police officers manned the area in the event of any trouble but the event, the third held in the town, passed off without incident.
Blackpool Citizen
Monday 17th November 2008
Thursday, 6 November 2008
Demonstration against the BNP Conference in Blackpool
JOIN THE PROTEST AGAINST THE FASCIST BNP CONFERENCE IN BLACKPOOL
Saturday 15 November 2008
Assemble at 12.00noon
Assemble in the square at the top of Victoria Street, Blackpool
(near side entrance to Winter Gardens).
and then march to protest outside New Kimberley Hotel 585-589 New South Promenade, Blackpool, FY4 1NQ.
The British National Party (BNP) has announced it is to hold a national conference on 14th, 15th and 16th November in Blackpool at the New Kimberley Hotel. Last year over 200 people attended the protest called by North West UAF against the presence of these fascists in Blackpool. Local people including members of the council, hotels, trade unions, students , residents and anti-fascist condemned the BNP for holding it's conference in Blackpool .
In the run up to the European elections the BNP will try to spread its message of hatred and division and will target the NW Region in the hope of gaining a seat in these European Elections. We must unite to stop them.
We must show our opposition to the fascist BNP and it's politics of race hate and division. We must show that there is united opposition to the BNP and ensure that Blackpool is a fascist-free zone.
Unite Against Fascism calls on all those that oppose fascism to mobilise and attend this protest of unity.
If you are able to attend and also help with mass leafleting please email unite@ucu.org.uk or telephone 020 7833 4916.
Transport and coach details available from the National Unite office on 020 833 4916
Called by -North West Region UAF . Supported by: Unite Against Fascism.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36541626651
Saturday 15 November 2008
Assemble at 12.00noon
Assemble in the square at the top of Victoria Street, Blackpool
(near side entrance to Winter Gardens).
and then march to protest outside New Kimberley Hotel 585-589 New South Promenade, Blackpool, FY4 1NQ.
The British National Party (BNP) has announced it is to hold a national conference on 14th, 15th and 16th November in Blackpool at the New Kimberley Hotel. Last year over 200 people attended the protest called by North West UAF against the presence of these fascists in Blackpool. Local people including members of the council, hotels, trade unions, students , residents and anti-fascist condemned the BNP for holding it's conference in Blackpool .
In the run up to the European elections the BNP will try to spread its message of hatred and division and will target the NW Region in the hope of gaining a seat in these European Elections. We must unite to stop them.
We must show our opposition to the fascist BNP and it's politics of race hate and division. We must show that there is united opposition to the BNP and ensure that Blackpool is a fascist-free zone.
Unite Against Fascism calls on all those that oppose fascism to mobilise and attend this protest of unity.
If you are able to attend and also help with mass leafleting please email unite@ucu.org.uk or telephone 020 7833 4916.
Transport and coach details available from the National Unite office on 020 833 4916
Called by -North West Region UAF . Supported by: Unite Against Fascism.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=36541626651
Saturday, 6 September 2008
Grimy BNP-link hotel 'a hazard to humans'
THE Blackpool hotel used by the far right British National Party for its annual conferences was branded a hazard to humans by health chiefs.
Officers investigated after guests complained about diarrhoea and vomiting while staying at The New Kimberley Hotel, Blackpool.
They were also told of guests being given uncooked food and meat which smelt bad.
Officials found the kitchen of the 50-bedroom hotel on South Promenade was filthy and discovered food which was out-of-date and in danger of cross-contamination from bacteria.
Peter Metcalf, 45, of Wyredale Road, St Annes, the hotel's former-leaseholder, admitted nine offences of breaching food hygiene safety rules and was found guilty of 11 similar offences after a trial.
He was fined £1,000 with £500 costs and ordered to pay the £15 victims' surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.
Victoria Cartmell, prosecuting for Blackpool Council, said there were complaints in 2006 about the hotel.
Health officers first visited the hotel in July 2006 and Metcalf was given numerous chances to clean the kitchen. Officers again visited on August 14 last year and found the kitchen was filthy.
Ceilings, walls, sockets, surfaces, pipes, floors, a cooker, fryer and freezer were greasy and dirty and food debris was scattered around.
Black mould was on chopping boards, freezer seals and an ice-making machine. A wash basin was dirty and there were no paper towels.
Ms Cartmell said: "Double cream in the fridge was past its use-by date. Containers of ice-cream were stored next to boxes of raw bacon which could have caused cross-contamination of bacteria."
Mitch Sarangi, defending, said at the time Metcalf's mother-in-law had been diagnosed with a terminal illness. He and his wife travelled to and from Scotland to visit her before she was transferred to a hospice and died.
Metcalf had now been declared bankrupt and he no longer held the hotel's lease.
The hotel hit the headlines in November 2006 and 2007 when it twice held the BNP's annual conference.
Tim Coglan, head of trading standards at Blackpool Council, said: "The conditions were disgusting and totally unacceptable. We know the majority of premises in the town are well run but we will continue to crackdown on those that aren't. Blackpool has the most robust enforcement regime in the country."
The hotel is now under new management.
Blackpool Gazette
Published Date: 05 September 2008
They were also told of guests being given uncooked food and meat which smelt bad.
Officials found the kitchen of the 50-bedroom hotel on South Promenade was filthy and discovered food which was out-of-date and in danger of cross-contamination from bacteria.
Peter Metcalf, 45, of Wyredale Road, St Annes, the hotel's former-leaseholder, admitted nine offences of breaching food hygiene safety rules and was found guilty of 11 similar offences after a trial.
He was fined £1,000 with £500 costs and ordered to pay the £15 victims' surcharge by Blackpool magistrates.
Victoria Cartmell, prosecuting for Blackpool Council, said there were complaints in 2006 about the hotel.
Health officers first visited the hotel in July 2006 and Metcalf was given numerous chances to clean the kitchen. Officers again visited on August 14 last year and found the kitchen was filthy.
Ceilings, walls, sockets, surfaces, pipes, floors, a cooker, fryer and freezer were greasy and dirty and food debris was scattered around.
Black mould was on chopping boards, freezer seals and an ice-making machine. A wash basin was dirty and there were no paper towels.
Ms Cartmell said: "Double cream in the fridge was past its use-by date. Containers of ice-cream were stored next to boxes of raw bacon which could have caused cross-contamination of bacteria."
Mitch Sarangi, defending, said at the time Metcalf's mother-in-law had been diagnosed with a terminal illness. He and his wife travelled to and from Scotland to visit her before she was transferred to a hospice and died.
Metcalf had now been declared bankrupt and he no longer held the hotel's lease.
The hotel hit the headlines in November 2006 and 2007 when it twice held the BNP's annual conference.
Tim Coglan, head of trading standards at Blackpool Council, said: "The conditions were disgusting and totally unacceptable. We know the majority of premises in the town are well run but we will continue to crackdown on those that aren't. Blackpool has the most robust enforcement regime in the country."
The hotel is now under new management.
Blackpool Gazette
Published Date: 05 September 2008
Thursday, 31 January 2008
Call for boycott of BNP hotel
TRADE union bosses are calling for the boycott of a Blackpool seafront hotel which opened its doors to the BNP.
The Kimberley Hotel on New South Promenade hosted the BNP conference in November following a veil of secrecy.
Today, the Lancashire Association of Trades Union Councils (LATUC) urged visitors to refuse to stay at the hotel in protest.
Peter Billington, secretary of the Lancashire TUC, said: "We are supporting Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre TUCs' call for trade union members and all decent people not to use this hotel.
"There are 2.7 million workers in the North West and 34 per cent of them are trade union members.
"We have written to the national TUC and asked it to circulate the hotel's details to all UK unions so that members can avoid this place."
Mr Billington said the hotel had knowingly supported for "a group of violent, racist, criminal thugs".
He added: "It shouldn't be forgotten that two Lancashire BNP members, one of them a BNP local council candidate in last May's elections, are currently in custody awaiting trial on bomb-making charges."
The BNP has vowed to return to Blackpool for its annual conference this year after hailing November's conference a huge success. Members of the far-right group staged the two-day conference at the New Kimberley Hotel on South Promenade in secret.
The Gazette quizzed Kimberley Hotel boss Peter Metcalf in the days before the conference but he denied the event would be held at the hotel
Anti-fascist demonstrators staged a protest outside the hotel but the conference passed off peacefully.
BNP bosses today promised this year's conference would be "even larger" despite being issued with "stay away" messages from council chiefs.
Roy Goodwin, from Blackpool's BNP, said: "The TUC is interfering with the democratic rights of a perfectly legal political party to hold its conference where it wishes.
"The amazing thing about what they are doing is that they are doing it under the banner of the UAF (United Against Fascism).
"I feel that a great deal of the British public may come to the conclusion there is a distinct odour of hypocrisy surrounding them."
The Gazette contacted the Kimberley Hotel but no-one was available for comment.
Blackpool Gazette
Published Date: 31 January 2007
The Kimberley Hotel on New South Promenade hosted the BNP conference in November following a veil of secrecy.
Today, the Lancashire Association of Trades Union Councils (LATUC) urged visitors to refuse to stay at the hotel in protest.
Peter Billington, secretary of the Lancashire TUC, said: "We are supporting Blackpool, Fylde & Wyre TUCs' call for trade union members and all decent people not to use this hotel.
"There are 2.7 million workers in the North West and 34 per cent of them are trade union members.
"We have written to the national TUC and asked it to circulate the hotel's details to all UK unions so that members can avoid this place."
Mr Billington said the hotel had knowingly supported for "a group of violent, racist, criminal thugs".
He added: "It shouldn't be forgotten that two Lancashire BNP members, one of them a BNP local council candidate in last May's elections, are currently in custody awaiting trial on bomb-making charges."
The BNP has vowed to return to Blackpool for its annual conference this year after hailing November's conference a huge success. Members of the far-right group staged the two-day conference at the New Kimberley Hotel on South Promenade in secret.
The Gazette quizzed Kimberley Hotel boss Peter Metcalf in the days before the conference but he denied the event would be held at the hotel
Anti-fascist demonstrators staged a protest outside the hotel but the conference passed off peacefully.
BNP bosses today promised this year's conference would be "even larger" despite being issued with "stay away" messages from council chiefs.
Roy Goodwin, from Blackpool's BNP, said: "The TUC is interfering with the democratic rights of a perfectly legal political party to hold its conference where it wishes.
"The amazing thing about what they are doing is that they are doing it under the banner of the UAF (United Against Fascism).
"I feel that a great deal of the British public may come to the conclusion there is a distinct odour of hypocrisy surrounding them."
The Gazette contacted the Kimberley Hotel but no-one was available for comment.
Blackpool Gazette
Published Date: 31 January 2007
Saturday, 2 December 2006
Demonstration scuppers BNP 'conference'
The Nazi British National Party’s plans to hold a meeting in Blackpool were ruined by an anti-fascist protest
Some 250 protesters gathered in Blackpool last Saturday for a lively and successful demonstration against an “annual conference” held in the town by the fascist British National Party (BNP).
The protest against the BNP drew in anti-racist activists, students and trade unionists from across the north west of England. It was called by Unite Against Fascism and Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre TUC.
Demonstrators met up outside Blackpool’s Winter Gardens before marching through the town centre, distributing leaflets on the way, to a rally some two miles out of town outside the New Kimberley Hotel, the venue for the Nazi gathering.
“The BNP is trying to give itself an air of respectability, but we believe that is a very thin veneer,” said Brian Gregory, secretary of Blackpool TUC.
“We’ve got the message across that we don’t want them in Blackpool.”
Stephen Mullen, president of Blackpool and the Fylde College student union, said, “We’re concerned for the safety of our students, many of whom are international students, or black or ethnic minority students.”
Other speakers included Weyman Bennett, joint national secretary of Unite, Alec McFadden from North West TUC, Pete Marsden of Blackpool Unison and Ruqayyah Collector, black students’ officer for the National Union of Students.
The size of the anti-fascist demonstration outside the hotel easily outnumbered those inside.
The BNP had been boasting about bringing 600 fascists to the event, but journalists covering it put the real numbers at around 50.
Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, later admitted in a radio interview that the Unite Against Fascism protest had deterred his supporters from attending the conference.
Local trade unionists are now calling for a boycott of the New Kimberley Hotel, whose management declined requests not to host the fascist gathering.
Despite threats from local football hooligan gangs and scare stories in the press, the Unite demonstration passed off peacefully with no arrests.
The protest was popular with local people, with one local restaurant owner making an impromptu offer of free refreshments for all those demonstrating against the fascists.
Source: Socialist Worker Online
2 December 2006
Sunday, 26 November 2006
BNP conference comes to Blackpool
The British National Party is holding a two-day conference at a hotel in the Lancashire resort of Blackpool.
About 600 BNP members are expected to attend the event, at the New Kimberley Hotel on the New South Promenade.
Blackpool Council leader Roy Fisher has said the group are not welcome in the town, which is used to hosting party conferences.
BNP organiser Roy Goodwin said the party was just as entitled to hold a conference there as anyone else.
He denied the party chose Blackpool as a destination because of the strong support for the group in the region.
"It wasn't to do with the support, it was to do with the location," he said.
"People are able to come here from the North, and the South.
"Blackpool Council's not very happy about that, but we're entitled to hold a conference wherever we like, it's as simple as that."
Unite Against Fascism, a party set up to challenge the BNP, has organised a rally in Blackpool on Saturday.
Ketlan Ossowski, from the party, said: "We'll go on a mass leaflet of Blackpool town centre, and we will hold a demonstration outside."
The BNP has more than 40 council seats and is the second-biggest group on Barking and Dagenham Council in east London.
BBC News
Sunday, 26 November 2006
About 600 BNP members are expected to attend the event, at the New Kimberley Hotel on the New South Promenade.
Blackpool Council leader Roy Fisher has said the group are not welcome in the town, which is used to hosting party conferences.
BNP organiser Roy Goodwin said the party was just as entitled to hold a conference there as anyone else.
He denied the party chose Blackpool as a destination because of the strong support for the group in the region.
"It wasn't to do with the support, it was to do with the location," he said.
"People are able to come here from the North, and the South.
"Blackpool Council's not very happy about that, but we're entitled to hold a conference wherever we like, it's as simple as that."
Unite Against Fascism, a party set up to challenge the BNP, has organised a rally in Blackpool on Saturday.
Ketlan Ossowski, from the party, said: "We'll go on a mass leaflet of Blackpool town centre, and we will hold a demonstration outside."
The BNP has more than 40 council seats and is the second-biggest group on Barking and Dagenham Council in east London.
BBC News
Sunday, 26 November 2006
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