A former British National Party election candidate and a dentist face trial today accused of conspiring to cause an explosion.
Robert Cottage, 49, of Colne, Lancashire, and David Jackson, 62, of Nelson, Lancashire, were charged under the Explosive Substances Act 1883 after chemical components were allegedly found at Cottage's house last September.
Both men deny conspiracy to cause an explosion with intent to harm life or property and possession of an explosive substance for an unlawful purpose.
Cottage stood for the BNP in last May's local elections in Colne.
The trial at Manchester Crown Court is expected to last up to 10 days. The case begins at 10.30am in Court 3 before Justice Beatson, if you fancy going and watching.
February 12, 2007
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This should be one worth watching!
You can be sure we'll be watching it very closely.
News services we've spotted this being reported by so far:
Sky News
Socialist Worker
Manchester Evening News
Lakeland Radio
Fox 8
My Fox (US)
Spotted identical reports here
Burnley Citizen
This is Lancashire
Should be over for the day by now though I don't see any updates anywhere.
This note was originally from Chris Hill's little chum, Ian, though we've edited out the links to his pro-BNP website. The post is worth reading simply because it shows another reason why we don't engage with these people (they're boring and they can't keep to the point). I've answered some of his questions because I'm naturally polite. Oh, and it's the last comment Ian will be making on this blog.
'Hey uaf. The looks bad on the bnp side. What on earth would they need explosives for? If its for anything bad I hope they get their comeuppance just as I would expect it to come to the uaf if you guys pulled a stunt like that. I do not condone law breaking. Anyway I have rolled out my new layout. if you want to have a look. I have added some new features and such. Still configuring my sql for the search engine. Done a lot of it in php and html. My original layout was css but that time consuming. I have a new flash based chat room as well that’s pretty good. Cant beat a bit of macromedia right? Anyway what did you guys to use to code up your site? I hope its not a pre-made template or something. Last year you called me and my fellow towns-men a bunch of unemployed, uneducated bunch of so and sos. I very much doubt you like us east Londoners right? “Ah yes, this is schoolboy Ian, friend of Chris Hill, to whom the latter wrote” you don’t want to be showed up by school boy Ian and his little web site right? More reason to spill the beans on the layout. Come on lets talk technical, try me lol?Ian'
'The [This?] looks bad on the bnp side.'
Yes it does.
'What on earth would they need explosives for?'
Your guess is as good as ours'
'Anyway I have rolled out my new layout.'
Good for you.
'if you want to have a look.'
We don't.
'Anyway what did you guys to use to code up your site?'
Nothing - just a bit of tweaking with HTML. The old site was primarily coded in php but there's html, css, mysql, Apache, Java and just about anything else you can think of.
'I hope its not a pre-made template or something.'
This one is. With the odd HTML tweak.
'I very much doubt you like us east Londoners right?'
I'm a south east Londoner myself. We don't care where people come from. That's rather the point really.
'you don’t want to be showed up by school boy Ian and his little web site right?'
We really don't give a toss.
Bye Ian.
So, no reports (that we can see) referring to the first day of the trial at all. Why not?
Just been on 1pm News on BBC
Cottage has pleaded Guilty to Possession of Explosives.
Pleaded not guilty to intent to create an explosion
Other bloke pleads not guilty
Tanks, antifa. We just saw an update on the BBC website too (though nowhere else). Blog duly updated.
Or even 'thanks'.
Main news story on BBC North West
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