A new lease of life

Kidney Transplant Gives New Life for Jay Patel in Wales Jay Patel, 60, is a well-known face around the Vale of Glamorgan in south Wales, having been the owner of Downs Filling Station, Cowbridge for over 30 years. People who...

Mercy Mission

Surgeon to Help Victims of Acid Attacks A surgeon is returning to Pakistan to help women scarred in acid attacks. Reconstruction expert Asim Shahmalak, from Cheadle, spent £50,000 of his own money to rebuild the lives of seven women who...

Brave Huzaifah’s Fundraising Efforts

11-Year-Old Heart Patient Aims to Raise £30,000A schoolboy who suffers from a heart defect has asked schools to join him in his fundraising efforts for a children’s hospital. 11-year-old Huzaifah Valli, from Blackburn, has been raising money for Alder...

Troubled Waters

HSBC’s Film on India Wins Best Film at London Ceremony This week saw HSBC’s film “Troubled Waters”, in partnership with Water Aid, winning the coveted Best Film and Community Investment Awards at the annual tve (Television for the Environment) Global Sustainability...

Quesir Mahmood Cleared

Police Found No Evidence of Election Fraud A Labour election candidate member has been released by police after all he was cleared on all allegations of electoral fraud.   Quesir Mahmood had been held by police for seven hours before a police...

‘We Stand Together’

Police Create New Campaign to Tackle Hatred Communities across London are being urged to unite this weekend in a demonstration against hatred and intolerance.   London’s We Stand Together campaign is being launched at the London Central Mosque, Regent's Park, Westminster, on...

Barrier to Reporting Sexual Violence

Cultural Norms in South Asian Communities Powerful cultural norms in South Asian communities in England and Wales are preventing incidences of sexual violence being reported, according to preliminary findings being revealed at a University of Hull conference.   Concepts such as...

London Midland loss to £1 billion pound investment

The combined forces to the Dutch and the Japanese businesses will manage services throughout Birmingham and the West Midlands from December. The Railway services in the West Midlands are to see a financing of £1 billion as London has lost...

‘Little Soldier’ Fighting Cancer

Gurkhas and Joanna Lumley Rally Behind Four-Year-Old Shreenik A Gurkha sergeant, whose four year old son is facing his third bone marrow transplant, is calling on fellow Gurkhas and South Asian people to join the Anthony Nolan bone marrow register...

Ten Years of Trauma

7/7 Survivor Says Britain Needs to Combat Homegrown Terror 7th July 2005 is a day which Sajda Mughal will never forget. An average Londoner on her way to work, she sat on the Piccadilly tube on the London Underground -...