From Chocolate hell to Chocolate heaven
LEICESTER-based confectionary maker Masterfoods admitted making a “mistake” in announcing it was to use animal extracts in a host of its well known chocolates.
The company said yesterday it was “sorry” for announcing the use of animal product rennet...
Widow ‘still waiting for apology’
THE WIDOW of an Asian man killed by his prison cellmate has said she is still waiting for an apology from the prison service after an inquest ruled her husband was given inadequate protection from his killer.
Father-of-two Shahid...
Birmingham woman charged over knife death
A BIRMINGHAM woman has been charged with the murder of a pregnant teenager found stabbed in her Bury home.
Seventeen-year-old Sana Ali was found with stab wounds at her home in Throstle Grove, Bury last Friday.
She was rushed to...
Falsely accused Birmingham man wins payout
A BIRMINGHAM man falsely accused in a terrorist plot has been awarded “substantial libel damages” by the High Court.
City baker Abdul Rauf, of Ward End, Birmingham also received a public apology from The Guardian, the Daily Mail, the...
Arrests have ‘destroyed relations with Muslims’
THE LAWYER of Hasina Patel, the widow of 7/7 bomber Mohammed Sidique Khan, has criticised the police in the wake of her release.
Ms Patel was arrested last week alongside her brother Arshad Patel, 30, and Birmingham man Imran...
Birmingham 7/7 suspect released
A BIRMINGHAM man arrested in connection with the July 7 bombing in London has been released without charge.
The 22-year-old was arrested by anti-terrorism officers last week in a series of anti-terrorist raids in Dewsbury, Batley, Beeston in south...
Mother-in-law discussed plan to ‘get rid’of Surjit
A MOTHER-IN-LAW called a family meeting to announce she was going to ‘get rid’ of her daughter-in-law, a court has heard.
Bachan Athwal, 70, denies the murder of her daughter-in-law Surjit Athwal who disappeared during a trip to India...
Plea five years on from arson horror
DETECTIVES have issued a fresh appeal for information on the whereabouts of a man wanted in connection with an arson attack on a house which killed eight members of the same family five years ago.
Shahid Mohammed, now aged...
Birmingham MP slams Israeli ‘War Crimes’
BIRMINGHAM MP Clare Short condemned Israeli "war crimes" after Palestinians told how they were forced off their land into shanty homes to make way for new settlements, in a visit to the region.
The anti-poverty charity War on Want took Short,...
Cameron’s sleepover with Brum Muslim family
CONSERVATIVE leader David Cameron has spent the night with a British Muslim family in Birmingham as he took a low-key tour of Balsall Heath.
Mr Cameron mingled with local British Muslims in the Balsall Heath area of the city on...
