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UK riots: teenager charged with BlackBerry incitement - Telegraph | Riots in London | Scoop.it
Apart from the news reporting by professionals, there’s been an avalanche of citizen journalism – user generated content sourced from amateurs who have been recording what they see around them, in their workplaces and neighbourhoods, on their mobile phones and cameras. Amateurs are now working alongside the professionals and are often in places where the professionals can’t be. This is why media organisations increasingly need to keep a close eye on the social web to supplement and enhance their own reporting resources. What this means is that journalists working in news rooms now have a new and evolving role. They need to be curators of the best content on the social web.
ROYAUME-UNI • Jamais sans ma capuche | Courrier international
Une image prise par les caméras de surveillance de la police municipale de Londres montre le 9 août 2011 des jeunes portant des "hoodies" - AFP PHOTO / METROPOLITAN POLICE On le craint, on le tourne en ridicule, on ne le comprend pas... Bref, le sweat à capuche est mal aimé. Pourtant, ce vêtement de sport utilitaire et extrêmement populaire fait son retour en force au beau milieu des émeutes et des voitures en flammes. Il est porté tous les jours par des millions de personnes : une faute de goût générationnelle qui s’est transformée soudainement en une cape indispensable aux jeunes pillards londoniens.
There is a context to London's riots that can't be ignored | Nina Power | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
Police in riot gear in Enfield, north London, on Sunday night. Photograph: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters Since the coalition came to power just over a year ago, the country has seen multiple student protests, occupations of dozens of universities, several strikes, a half-a-million-strong trade union march and now unrest on the streets of the capital (preceded by clashes with Bristol police in Stokes Croft earlier in the year).
Activist Post: UK Police may ban future marches to prevent disorder
Police may ban anti-Government marches through central London to prevent further disorder and strain on officer numbers. Martin Beckford, Heidi Blake and Steven Swinford Telegraph The Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, said that outlawing the demonstations was an option for the authorities but conceded it could anger protestors further. He admitted he was “very worried” about the effect on law and order in town centres and suburbs caused by large numbers of officers being sent to the centre of the capital. Despite widespread criticism over the policing of the protests, and warnings that the Met’s tactics risk leading to the death of an innocent bystander, Sir Paul said he was proud of the professionalism of the 3,000 officers on duty last week.
Thanks everyone to the incredible support over the past week: we’ve had literally thousands of people signing the petition. We are now going to constitute a formal defence campaign. As part of the official campaign launch, we have drawn up a new statement.
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The government has refused to give MPs access to papers on international negotiations about copyright enforcement on the internet and at national borders. Junior business minister David Lammy said he could not put documents about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) in the House of Commons Library, because other countries wanted to maintain secrecy. Lammy said he was "sympathetic" to calls for more transparency and had told his officials to press the point at the talks, but added: "Disclosure of any documents without the agreement of all our ACTA negotiating partners would damage the United Kingdom's international relations. "This would harm our ability to protect, promote and secure an outcome in the UK's interest, and the premature release of documents that are not agreed and not fully developed may also have a negative effect on the government's reputation."
MPs frozen out of super-secret copyright talks • The Register
House of Commons Hansard Written Answers for 20 Jan 2010 (pt 001
Mr. Cash: To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his most recent assessment is of the state of climate science research on the effect of climate change on changes in sea level; what projections he made of changes to sea level by 2100; and if he will make a statement. [311274] Joan Ruddock: The prediction of sea level rise is at the forefront of scientific research. While prediction of the component from thermal expansion of the ocean is well understood, the contribution from polar ice sheets represents a major source of uncertainty, resulting in a wide range of projections of sea level rise.