Rap duo Bob Vylan face police probe after Glastonbury anti-IDF chants
Local police said the band's performance at the festival had been recorded as a public order incident and said they would consider 'all appropriate legislation' during its investigation, including hate-crime laws.
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Rap duo Bob Vylan face police probe after Glastonbury anti-IDF chants
Police have begun a criminal investigation into the rap duo Bob Vylan's performance at the Glastonbury Festival. Local police said the band's performance at the festival had been recorded as a public order incident and said they would consider 'all appropriate legislation' during its investigation, including hate-crime laws. The Irish
Otago Daily Times
12-06-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Northern Ireland hit by third night of violence
Violence erupted in different parts of Northern Ireland for the third successive night on Wednesday, with masked youths starting a fire in a leisure centre but unrest in the primary flashpoint of Ballymena was notably smaller in scale. Hundreds of masked rioters attacked police and set homes and cars on fire in Ballymena, a town of 30,000 people 45km from Belfast, on Tuesday night in what police condemned as "racist thuggery." The violence flared on Monday after two 14-year-old boys were arrested and appeared in court earlier that day, accused of a serious sexual assault on a teenage girl in the town. The charges were read via a Romanian interpreter to the boys, whose lawyer told the court that they denied the charge, the BBC reported. Police are investigating the damaging of properties on Monday and Tuesday in Ballymena, which has a relatively large migrant population, as racially-motivated hate crimes. Two Filipino families told Reuters they fled their home in Ballymena on Tuesday night after fearing for their safety when their car was set on fire outside the house. A few dozen masked youths threw some rocks, fireworks and petrol bombs at police after officers in riot gear and armoured vans blocked roads in the town on Wednesday evening. Police deployed water cannon against the crowd for the second successive night but the clashes were nothing like the previous night that left 17 officers injured and led to five arrests. Much of the crowd had left the streets before midnight. A small number of riot police were also in the town of Larne 30km west where masked youths smashed the windows of a leisure centre before starting fires in the lobby, BBC footage showed. Swimming classes were taking place when bricks were thrown through the windows and staff had to barricade themselves in before running out the back door, a local Alliance Party lawmaker, Danny Donnelly, told the BBC. Northern Ireland's Communities Minister Gordon Lyons had earlier posted on Facebook that a number of people had been temporarily moved to the leisure centre following the disturbances in Ballymena, before then being moved out of Larne. The comments drew sharp criticism from other political parties for identifying a location used to shelter families seeking refuge from anti-immigrant violence. Lyons condemned the attacks on the centre. Police said youths also set fires at a roundabout in the town of Newtownabbey, a flashpoint for sectarian violence that sporadically flares up in the British-run region 27 years after a peace deal largely ended three decades of bloodshed. Debris was also set alight at a barricade in Coleraine, the Belfast Telegraph reported. The British and Irish governments as well as local politicians have condemned the violence.
Otago Daily Times
03-06-2025
- Otago Daily Times
Dancing of unusual merit
Norma Douglas, of Oamaru, winner of sword dance, Irish jig and Austin memorial cup at the Dunedin piping and dancing competitions. — Otago Witness, 7.7.1925 What I said . . . The championship competitions of the Otago Centre of the Piping and Dancing Association of New Zealand were continued yesterday morning and afternoon. At both sessions the audience was treated to good displays of these picturesque Highland dances. Dancing of unusual merit was witnessed and successful competitors were treated to hearty applause . To the editor: Sir, In a local in this morning's Otago Daily Times in reference to additional Sunday trains, I am reported to have said that the Port Chalmers railway workmen did not like the proposed additional Sunday work. What I did say was of a more general nature "that the New Zealand working men generally did not like the additional Sunday labour." — I am, etc, J.M. Simpson Scrum feed tweaked London, April 21: The small committee of experts set up by the Rugby Union to endeavour to devise some means of improving the method of getting the ball into the scrummage has quickly got to work. Two matches — between Birkenhead Park and Leicester, and Bristol and Bath — were made the subject of an interesting experiment last Saturday. The halfbacks in these games were instructed to put the ball in the scrummages with a double hand movement, so that it fell just outside the entrance and bounded in. The result was that when the experiment was properly executed the ball bounded over the out-stretched legs of the two nearest forwards. Under the old system the tendency is for the ball to strike their legs and to rebound to the halfback. Result: another attempt — sometimes half a dozen other attempts and general exasperation. The somewhat unaccustomed propelling, rather than throwing, movement baffled the halfbacks at the Birkenhead Park match on several occasions, but in the opinion of experts practice will soon remedy that failing. There was one spell when the halfbacks could not master the new throw, so Mr Freethy, the international referee, had a try. He, too, failed. After the match, Mr Freethy was invited to express his opinion on the experiment. He replied that he considered it had been a decided success. If persevered with, he thought it would go a long way towards removing a great source of trouble. "I believe it will show forwards that the only way to get the ball in future will be by honest shoving." he added. "In that sense there will be a return to the days when genuine scrummaging was a decided asset." "What effect will that have upon the modern winging forward?" Mr Freethy was asked. "His days are numbered," was the reply. Passengers on the line Exceptionally heavy traffic was responsible for the through express from Invercargill arriving at Dunedin nearly an hour later than schedule time yesterday. The train left Invercargill six minutes late, and so heavy was the traffic that additional carriages had to be added at several stations on the run north. Time was lost all along the line, and the express was 25min late in arriving at Balclutha. Milton was left at 11.5am, and the train, consisting of 17 well-filled coaches and two vans, made the run to Dunedin in 58min. This included a stop of about seven minutes at Wingatui, where over 350 passengers (southern race visitors) alighted. When the express arrived at the Dunedin platform at 12.3pm about 350 passengers were distributed among the 17 carriages. A large number of travellers joined the train here and the northward journey was resumed shortly before 12.30 — over an hour late. Wild West in the Catlins During the course of her address at the annual meeting of the Otago and Southland Auxiliary of the New Zealand Baptist Union last night, Mrs Ford, who carries on the work of the Baptist Church at Tahakopa, said she was sorry to say that drinking and gambling were rife in that district. She stated that whisky was sold almost as openly as cordials, and £1 per bottle was being paid for it. As far as gambling was concerned she admitted that her district was not alone in that respect. The behaviour of the people was much different to what it was when she first went down, and no larrikinism was now evident. She concluded by saying they would have to keep their eyes open and bring to justice those who violated the laws. — ODT, 4.6.1925 Compiled by Peter Dowden
