A TYNESIDE student today appeared in court charged with a breach of the Communications Act 2003.
He denied racially abusing Footballer Stan Collymore on Twitter.
Ironically, Joshua Cryer, 21, of Jesmond, Newcastle and originally from Coal Clough Lane, Burnley, is a law student at Newcastle University.
The case was adjourned until April 2 2012.
See Evening Chronicle

The world of football is again shamed by racism this week as Nigerian born Newcastle striker Shola Ameobi was subjected to racist abuse via Twitter.
Newcastle United FC have condemned the comments in a statement.
29 year old Peter Copeland from West Rainton, Durham, has been charged and admitted two offences under the Malicious Communications Act.
See: The […]

The events of 2011 in the Middle East and North Africa heralded the fact that the divide between Muslims and non-Muslims is narrower than imagined.
In Tunisia, Libya Syria, Bahrain and the Yemen, ordinary people, mostly Muslim but some Christian and other faiths rose up to demand their rights.  And what were these rights? A right […]

The sheer viciousness and futility of Islamic Fundamentalist terrorism was sadly brought home only too clearly on Christmas Day last year, by appalling acts of terrorism as Christian churches in Nigeria were rocked by bombings.  It was reported that at least 35  innocent worshippers were killed in an explosion in a Catholic church in a […]

South shields man Stephen Smith was today found guilty of daubing racist graffiti over the home of elderly lone widow. See The Evening Chronicle for details.
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