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May 14, 2013

How to submit content to your new-look website

 The register/login link is on the top right hand side of the website, in front of the social media icons.*Once logged in, you'll see your profile page.*Add contentThe link "Add content...

How to edit content of your new-look website

The register/login link is on the top right hand side, in front of the social icons.*Once logged in, you'll see your profile page.*Add contentThe link "Add content" allows you to add your voice to your own blog or the main site on The-Latest. ...

Welcome to your new state of the art website

We’re delighted to bring you a brand new site. After months of work, the wonderfully talented developer Juan Breinlinger has made it for us to unveil today. Throughout the painstaking process, he has been advised by webmaster Len McLaughlin. The ...

Transport bosses charge Londoners thousands for taxis and magazines

Senior executives at Transport for London (TfL) are charging taxpayers thousands of pounds per year for taxis, magazine subscriptions, meals and internet use.According to figures provided by TfL, expenses claims made by its seven most senior executives tot ...

UK Paralympic sponsor is 'waging war against the disabled'

John ListerDisability campaigners are furious that one of the main sponsors of the big event is a company making millions by stripping disabled people of their benefits. Alongside the publicity for the Paralympic Games in London, look out for five days of ...

Journalists exposed for their biased coverage of riots

 Holding media to account after the English riotsStudy by University of Leicester sociologist examines media’s impact on communitiesNews outlets need to be held to account for their coverage of the English riots, a new report has argued.Media and the ...

Why Olympic chiefs should let in the Voice

No one would argue that a Black athlete named Usain Bolt is the big draw who will pull in a huge world audience for the London Olympics, writes Marc Wadsworth.Yet The Voice newspaper - the only one that each week serves Britain’s African Caribbean communit ...

Anger mounts over local press pass Games snub

James Read Newsquest London press group editor Andy Parkes is furious with the capital's Mayor Boris Johnson and Olympics organisers after being left with no full press passes for his group of local papers to cover the Olympics. In May, the British Olympic ...

Media coverage of last year's England riots 'was disgraceful'

Media reporting of last summer’s riots has been heavily criticised in a damning new report, writes Marc Wadsworth exclusively for The-Latest. The weighty 10,000-word draft report, called Media and the Riots: A Call for Action, was written by top academic D ...

Black heritage boss calms fears over new centre's future

 Lizabeth Davis and Marc WadsworthBuilding work on Britain’s first permanent home for archives documenting black history has suffered a serious set back with the collapse of a construction firm. But the director of the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) pr ...

Top cop faces Black community backlash

 Plans by Britain’s top police officer to tackle racism in the Met and bring in changes to answer community concerns have been greeted with disbelief from some leading black people.Hogan-Howe pledged to “rid the Met” of racist police following a crisi ...

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