Final fundraising push for Haroon
Daredevil returns from Mount Everest trekA COVENTRY man who has just returned from a gruelling trek to Mount Everest is hoping the spirit of ‘giving’ this Christmas will help him reach his fundraising target.
Council worker Haroon Mota spent...
Minorities’ job prospects no better than in 1970s
Study finds decline in jobs for ethnic groupsTHE employment prospects of some of Britain's ethnic minorities have failed to improve and may well have declined markedly since the 1970s according to the most detailed analysis ever carried out.
A study...
Lib Dem MP calls for Iraq inquiry
Government must be accountable, says Sarah TeatherLIBERAL Democrat MP East Sarah Teather is calling for a full inquiry into the Iraq war after the Prime Minister announced that troops would be withdrawn by July next year.
Ms Teather, MP for...
BBC Asian Network ‘misled’ listeners, rules Ofcom
Film Café guikty of changing results of votesTHE BBC Asian Network was slammed yesterday for its ‘lack of regard’ for the broadcasting code after it changed the results of a Bollywood Film Awards show voted by its listeners.
Media...
Millionaire returns bank award over Interpal row
Imraan Ladak hits out at Lloyds TSBA BRITISH Asian millionaire has said he will return an award given to him by a High Street bank in protest at their treatment of a UK charity who distributes humanitarian aid to...
Life for London and Glasgow car bomber
Bilal Abdulla jailed for minimum of 32 yearsA NHS doctor was today jailed for a minimum of 32 years after being found guilty of planting two car bombs in the heart of London and an attempted suicide attack at...
Jail for Prison Drugs ‘Smuggler’
Atia Ashraf jailed for four yearsA WOMAN who was caught taking drugs worth more than £18,000 into Leeds Prison has been jailed for four years.
Atia Ashraf, aged 24, of Mount Trinity, Blackburn, was found with heroin, crack cocaine and...
‘Forced marriage’ doctor returns to the UK
‘I forgive my parents’, says London doctorA LONDON doctor who was allegedly held captive by her parents in Bangladesh after refusing a marriage proposal has said she forgives them.
Dr Humayra Abedin landed in the UK this morning bringing...
Jury convicts city ‘assassin’
Mohammed Rafiq jailed for 22 yearsA BIRMINGHAM man who assassinated a father-of-two shooting him 16 times at point blank range with an Uzi sub machine gun has been jailed.
Mohammed Rafiq, 42, was found guilty of shooting dead Mohammed Sabir...
Honour-killing victim’s daughter calls for justice
Family in India bid to re-open Surjit Athwal caseTHE daughter of a woman who was murdered in India has demanded her killers be brought to justice.
Twenty-seven-year-old Surjit Athwal died in 1998 during a trip to India.
Last year her husband,...
