Statue row brews in Leicester
A ROW is brewing in Leicester as the council decides who is deserving of a commemorative statue – spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi or footballing hero Gary Lineker.
The multi-cultural Midlands city has one of the largest British Asian populations...
Leeds’ benefit fraudsters jailed
TWO BROTHERS who falsely claimed more than £220,000 in benefits in what has been described as the biggest ever fraud in the city’s history have been jailed.
Brothers Javeid Akhtar and Banaras Ali pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit...
Police event to promote safety for female students
LEICESTERSHIRE Constabulary is joining forces with De Montfort University for an event to promote safety to female students.A ‘Violence Against Women' event is being held at the university this Thursday between 6pm and 9pm.
The evening will include talks...
Parents on high alert after city abductions
POLICE have warned parents and children to be on their guard after two child abductors struck in Birmingham less than 24 hours of each other.
On Sunday an Asian man, described as being in his 30s, wearing glasses and...
Hammer attack thugs jailed
TWO BROTHERS who brutally attacked a man with a hammer has been jailed for a total of 12 years.
Sean Joseph Gorman, 25, and Mark Gorman, 23, originally from the Republic of Ireland, escaped to New York after the...
Campaign to save Southall Black Sisters
A NUMBER of women demonstrated outside the headquarters of Ealing Council in protest at their decision to cut vital funding for one of the country's most influential Asian refuges.
Supporters of Southall Black Sisters demonstrated outside the council's headquarters...
Documentary makers to sue police and CPS
THE PRODUCTION team behind the controversial Channel 4 documentary ‘Undercover Mosque’ have revealed they are to sue West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for libel.
The Dispatches programme ‘Undercover Mosque’, which was broadcast in January 2007,...
Newspapers re-print controversial Muhammad cartoon
A NUMBER of Danish newspapers have reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad which caused Muslim outrage over two years ago.
The caricatures, which spurred deadly protests in the Muslim world in 2005, were reprinted just hours after the police...
Crimewatch appeal in Shafilea Murder
THE MURDER of teenager Shafilea Ahmed will feature on BBC’s Crimewatch next week.
The decomposed body of the 17-year-old was found in Sedgwick, Cumbria by the River Kent five months after she went missing from her home in Warrington....
‘Inbreeding’ comments attacked
A BRITISH MP is facing growing calls to step down after his claims that Muslim ‘inbreeding’ in Britain is causing massive birth defects were met with heavy criticism.
Environment Minister Phil Woolas was accused of ‘Islamphobia’ after he warned...
