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Notting Hill was at the time a stronghold for Oswald Mosley's Union Movement and Colin Jordan's White Defence League. The previous year, race riots had broken out in that area. The detective investigating the cases was initially convinced that the youths' motive was robbery , but Cochrane's lack of money was explained by his fiancée, as ...
The roots of the Notting Hill Carnival that took shape in the mid-1960s had two separate but connected strands. A "Caribbean Carnival" was held on 30 January 1959 [7] in St Pancras Town Hall as a response to the problematic state of race relations at the time; the UK's first widespread racial attacks, the Notting Hill race riots in which 108 people were charged, [8] had occurred the previous year.
Three people were stabbed during the first day of the Notting Hill Carnival, Europe’s biggest street festival, with a 32-year-old woman suffering “life-threatening” injuries, London’s ...
On 26 August 2011, a blue plaque commemorating Laslett's conception of the Notting Hill street festival that "later evolved into Notting Hill Carnival" was unveiled on the corner of Tavistock Square and Portobello Road (organised by the Nubian Jak Community Trust), facing another blue plaque that commemorates Claudia Jones, who in 1959 ...
A police officer deployed to Notting Hill Carnival said officers were treated like “lambs to the slaughter”, according to a survey by the Metropolitan Police Federation. Almost 90 per cent of ...
The Metropolitan Police said the victim, believed to be in his 20s, did not suffer life-threatening injuries.
Two people who were critically injured in attacks while attending London’s Notting Hill Carnival earlier this week have died, police said Saturday. The Metropolitan Police force said 32-year-old ...
Hanscomb died in the early hours of 26 August at St Mary's Hospital in Paddington after a member of a group of youths stabbed the 38-year-old scientist in the groin at the Notting Hill Carnival. Part of Hanscomb's work as a scientist was to help develop the DNA genetic fingerprint test. [91] September 1991 Brenda Cross