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  1. Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:
    July 15, 2012 at 9:59 am

    macaulay Culkin has just given Jeremy Hunt a perfect opportunity by asking him what the bbc should do in the future:
    Did He use his chance to stick it to them good? No he wimped out and arse licked all at the beeb telling them how ****ing wonderful they are. What a knob!

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  2. Ron Todd says:
    July 15, 2012 at 10:12 am

    Sunday Morning live discusing racist language, only one of four presenters white British.

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    • noggin says:
      July 16, 2012 at 8:03 am

      check out the public vote AGAIN at the end.
      despite a frankly absurd amount of orchestration
      between ahmed, bond and the socialist workers bint on the end … you d think it was a done deal wouldn t you, only he was aquitted 😀

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  3. will says:
    July 15, 2012 at 1:10 pm

    BBC Football page still obsessing over Terry, but no space for today’s developments, with Ferdinand disgracefully dissembling over his tweeting about Cole’s “choc ice” nature. Claiming that a term widely accepted as meaning “brown on the outside but white inside” actually means something entirely different, irrelevant & not racist

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/

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  4. RCE says:
    July 15, 2012 at 3:45 pm

    I see Sky manage a name check for the delightful Mohammed, Surin, Ali and Abdul who have been nicked for… Well, it’s a straight toss-up, isn’t it?

    Curiosly the Beeb are sticking to the word ‘men’; not even a mention of hirsuteness or otherwise.

    I’m sure there’s a good reason, though, eh David?

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    • Biodegradable says:
      July 15, 2012 at 5:53 pm

      I assume you’re talking about this story?

      Four Men Charged Over Alleged Abduction

      Four men have been charged with offences relating to the alleged abduction of a 13-year-old girl, according to Suffolk Police.

      Police have issued a statement confirming the arrests.

      They said Mohamed Sheikh, a 31-year-old of Seaton Point in London, has been charged with a child abduction offence and with possession of a controlled drug.

      Surin Uddin, a 28-year-old of St Matthews Row in London, has been charged with two counts of rape against a girl under the age of 16 and one child abduction offence.

      Ali Hamza, a 38-year-old of Chingford Road in London, has been charged with sexual assault and a child abduction offence.

      Abdul Hammed, a 46-year-old of Wellington Street in Ipswich, has also been charged with two counts of rape against a girl under the age of 16 and one child abduction offence.

      The men are due to face Ipswich Magistrates’ Court on Monday.

      The BBC studiously avoids naming them – that would be a dead giveaway!

      Men charged with rape and abduction of girl, 13, in Ipswich

      Four men have been charged with the abduction of a 13-year-old girl allegedly raped in Suffolk.

      Three men from east London, aged 28, 31 and 38, along with a 46-year-old Ipswich man, are due to appear before magistrates in Ipswich on Monday.

      Police said the men were charged and held in custody over the alleged offences in Ipswich over the past week.

      The men aged 46 and 28 have each been accused of child abduction and two counts of rape.

      The 38-year-old man is charged with child abduction and sexual assault, while the 31-year-old man faces accusations of child abduction and possession of a controlled drug.

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      • Dysgwr_Cymraeg says:
        July 15, 2012 at 6:32 pm

        It is always said by some, that the INBBC only leaves out the names due to following court reporting procedures, perhaps they have some inside info on what happened here.

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    • +james says:
      July 15, 2012 at 5:55 pm

      I noticed that, the BBC report from their website….

      Men charged with rape and abduction of girl, 13, in Ipswich

      Four men have been charged with the abduction of a 13-year-old girl allegedly raped in Suffolk.

      Three men from east London, aged 28, 31 and 38, along with a 46-year-old Ipswich man, are due to appear before magistrates in Ipswich on Monday.

      Police said the men were charged and held in custody over the alleged offences in Ipswich over the past week.

      The men aged 46 and 28 have each been accused of child abduction and two counts of rape.

      The 38-year-old man is charged with child abduction and sexual assault, while the 31-year-old man faces accusations of child abduction and possession of a controlled drug.

      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-18847770

      Compared with the Mirror…

      Police charge four men with abducting and sexually assaulting a teenage girl in Suffolk

      Four men have been charged for abducting and sexually assaulting a 13-year-old girl.

      Mohamed Sheikh, a 31-year-old of Seaton Point, London, has been charged with a child abduction offence and possession of a controlled drug.

      Surin Uddin, a 28-year-old of St Matthews Row, London, has been charged with two counts of rape against a girl under the age of 16 and one child abduction offence.

      Ali Hamza, a 38-year-old of Chingford Road, London has been charged with sexual assault and a child abduction offence.

      Abdul Hammed, a 46-year-old of Wellington Street, Ipswich has been charged with two counts of rape against a girl under the age of 16 and one child abduction offence.

      All four men are due to appear in Ipswich Magistrates Court on Monday 16 July.

      http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/four-men-to-appear-in-court-for-abducting-1143824

      They have very strange sounding names?

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      • Biodegradable says:
        July 15, 2012 at 6:06 pm

        Perhaps somebody from the BBC, like David Gregory, would be kind enough to explain to us why the BBC has chosen to censor the names?

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  5. David Preiser (USA) says:
    July 16, 2012 at 12:46 am

    Egyptian TV airs slow beheading of Tunisian Muslim who converted to Christianity

    How’s that Arab Spring working out for you now, BBC? Still, as long as the Egyptians finally stand up to Israel’s tyranny, no need to frown at this like you do every time the US thinks about executing a murderer, right?

    No mention of this on any BBC web page at the time of this writing. And I expect there won’t be any time soon.

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