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April 24, 2012
Gay bankers at Barclays get their own mobile app

British bank Barclays launches mobile app to help lesbian, gay bisexual and transgender staff keep up to date

Spectrum, the LGBT staff network at banking giant Barclays, has launched its own mobile app to help staff keep up with the latest.

The British banks gay workers can use it to access details of upcoming events, news and links to Spectrum’s social media presence on Facebook and Twitter.

Until now Spectrum, a 10-year-old staff network, has seen most of its membership coming from the bank’s largest office hubs in London’s Canary Wharf, Northampton and Radbroke in Cheshire.

February 2, 2012
Young man beaten in homophobic attack

Police are appealing for witnesses after a 20-year-old man was attacked by a group of homophobes

A young man has been beaten in a homophobic attack in Northampton, England.

The 20-year-old from Milton Keynes was followed by three men while walking to the BP filling station in the Westbridge area of the East Midlands town, on 26 January, between 11pm and 11.30pm.

The group asked him about his sexuality before punching and kicking him in the head.

According to police, the man was treated at Northampton General Hospital for 'cuts and bruises' to his face.