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They gathered to hear speakers, many carrying placards calling for an end to migration and for Britain to leave the EU.

WISBECH anti immigration demo organiser Dean Everitt said that UKIP speakers withdrew from today's rally for fear the media "would use their appearance as racist propaganda". Mr Everitt told a crowd of some 300 in Wisbech Park that two Lincolnshire UKIP councillors originally due to speak had sent letters explaining their position.

A gunman used homophobic slurs before firing a fatal shot point-blank into a man's face on a Manhattan street alive with a weekend midnight crowd, a killing New York's police commissioner called an "anti-gay" hate crime.

Buy this photo Chris Gorman, left, and Peter Harvey, who organised the blood donor session in memory of their friend.

People who attended the service in Buckley shared memories of Miss Gowing, who was described as a lovely person with a great sense of humour.

A TALENT show organiser who helped to launch the career of Stanford-le-Hope X Factor star Rylan Clark has been arrested on suspicion of rape.

A British tourist has drowned in front of his wife while swimming in rough seas on a holiday in Italy.

A PETITION has been launched calling on borough council chiefs to rethink a plan to use nearly A 800,000 of taxpayers' money to buy a Costa Coffee restaurant at the Basingstoke Leisure Park.

Planning permission has been granted for a lakeside "village" including 300 homes on the outskirts of Ashford, Kent. The Conningbrook Lakes country park, on the site of a former quarry, will have recreational facilities for sailing, canoeing, and fishing.

A previously undiscovered church, thought to be at least 1,000 years old, has been found beneath Lincoln Castle. It is thought that the stone church was built in the Anglo-Saxon period, after the Romans left Britain, but before the Norman Conquest of 1066.

Neighbour Madeleine Tosh became concerned she had not seen David Waring for several weeks, and alerted Wiltshire Police, who found his body at his home on Beech Avenue.

A PCSO was arrested by colleagues from his own force for drink-driving when he called for back-up after pulling another motorist over, a court heard today.

A tot was discovered alone at home by officers after they received a call at around 10am on Thursday. The mother of a 20-month-old baby found dead in a house in Bicester is believed to have fled to Kenya.

Walter Brazil, 41, of Collyer Avenue, is due to appear in custody at Worthing Magistrates' Court today.

The Basildon branch of Cure the NHS teamed up with London-based legal firms Leigh Day and Field Fisher Waterhouse to hold a public meeting at The Place in Northlands Pavement, Pitsea , yesterday afternoon.

A second man has been arrested in relation to today's stabbings in Hereford, and the suspect taken away in an ambulance with a police escort.

Rev Mina Smallman has been given the title - which covers Rochford , Basildon , Thurrock and Hadleigh as well as the town itself.

Villagers claim their community is going to be overwhelmed and roads brought to a standstill if plans for a giant industrial park are approved.