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£6 million council grants awarded for millennium (Nov 12 1999 )

Violence charges dropped against "psycho" nazi (Nov 3, 1999 )


£6 million council grants awarded for millennium

Nov 12 1999

[Sorting the applications]

The council formally awarded over £6 million in grants to local community groups on Wednesday. As usual there were winners and losers.

Once again the allocation system has changed, with groups which fulfil some of the councils statutory responsibilities and other strategic objectives given a "fast track" award. A complex points system was used to sort out the rest.

This year high points were given for "tin-rattling" - groups raising at least 10% through their own fund raising activities. "Working in Partnership", having "matched funding" from Europe or the Lottery, belonging to a "network" or working in "areas of stress" all brought high points.

Groups getting 18 points or more from a maximum of 56 were funded.

Most groups whose grants were renewed, however, faced the annual 2% cut, which is clearly having a cumulative effect on the services they provide.

See this years awards in full

See also Last years awards


Violence charges dropped against "psycho" nazi

November 3, 1999

 [David Appleyard]

Outstanding charges of threatening witnesses were finally dropped last week against David Appleyard, a dangerous fascist who has engaged in a 3 year campaign of violence and intimidation in the City.

Earlier charges arising from a hammer attack against a young man at the Bradford Festival in 1997 had also been dropped after police "lost" potentially crucial evidence.

David Appleyard, a member of the neo nazi terrorist group "Combat 18", has a long record of violence and an even longer record of escaping prosecutions. His own associates claim he receives protection as a police informer.

One woman who has been threatened by Appleyard said afterwards:

"It's been disgraceful. I cannot understand how the case could be dropped against the wishes of those who were threatened."

"If you did have any faith in the police, then you are forced to the conclusion that Appleyard is being protected in some way..."

A spokesperson for the 1 in 12 Club which was targeted by Appleyard said:

"What frightens me most is that Appleyard is genuinely capable of killing someone. The court case was never going to put a stop to him, but it gave people a break from his obsessional behaviour. Now it's as if they've given him the green light to carry on." 

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