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  • Woolwich: Help for Heroes won't take charity cash raised by English Defence League

    05/28/2013 3:23:03 AM PDT · by davemac.439 · 21 replies
    London Evening Standard ^ | 28 May 2013 | PA/Wire
    Forces charity Help for Heroes has announced they will not accept any donations raised by the leader of the English Defence League Tommy Robinson. The EDL leader started fundraising following last week’s murder of soldier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, south-east London, but a spokesman for Help for Heroes said the Just Giving page set up by Mr Robinson would be closed down and all donations would be refunded.
  • (UK) Woolwich Incident: Two Men Shot By Police After Man...'Hacked to Death’ By Machetes

    05/22/2013 9:09:56 AM PDT · by kristinn · 148 replies
    Metro UK News ^ | Wednesday, May 22, 2013
    A man wearing a Help For Heroes T-shirt has reportedly been hacked to death by two machete-wielding assailants in broad daylight in south-east London. The two knifemen are understood to have been shot by armed police, although Scotland Yard will still only confirm officers had been called to reports of ‘an assault’ on John Wilson Street at around 2.20pm. SNIP Eyewitness James Heneghan told LBC 97.3 he and his wife had witnessed two men hacking at a third with two large kitchen knives. ‘We saw the whole incident,’ he said fighting back tears. ‘They were hacking at this poor guy,...