New BIDs for Birmingham
Overwhelming Agreement of Approval Businesses in two areas of Birmingham have voted in favour of setting up new Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) and joining ten other BID areas across the city in improving trade and competitiveness and having the...
Centre welcomes Baby Nega
First baby born at new Sandwell Birth Unit
A NEW purpose built midwife-led birth centre in Sandwell has welcomed its first new arrival.
A baby boy, still known as Baby Nega until his first name is chosen, was born in a...
Missing Shop Owner Found Dead in Own Car Boot
West Midland Police launch investigation after the body of missing shop owner, Tanveer Iqbal, was found in the boot of his own car on Portland Road in Edgbaston.
The 33-year-old was reported missing on Monday afternoon, after not being...
First Asian Chair of Crimestoppers for Leicestershire
Romail Gulzar steps up his Fight Against Crime
Romail Gulzar, Managing Editor of Pukaar News UK, has just been appointed the new Chair of the Leicestershire Crimestoppers Volunteer Committee, the only independent national charity working to solve crime.
Romail, who...
Top Universities To Offer Places To Disadvantaged Students
The top universities in England have been told to start increase places for disadvantaged students.
The university watchdog, the Office for Students, wants the "access gap" between wealthier and poorer students to be halved in five years.
Young people from affluent...
Guilty: Man who killed over £250 debt
Moosa Khan sentenced to life at Old BaileyA MAN who callously stabbed another man to death over a debt of £250 has been sentenced to life today.
Moosa Khan, 20, plunged a knife into the stomach of 23-year-old Leon...
Birmingham Drug Gang Jailed
A Birmingham crime gang have been jailed of a total of 44 years after smuggling heroin and cocaine into the UK.
Millions of pounds worth narcotics were smuggled in via a series of shipments of poultry from the Netherlands.
The gang...
New Supermeal app gives cashback on every takeaway purchase
International software company WaqarTech Ltd has launched a new takeaway app that earns cashback on every food order.
The Supermeal web and mobile app helps customers to find and order from a variety of restaurants while they’re on the go.
The...
Pair quizzed over ‘poison’ death of mum
Police awaiting toxicology resultsTWO people have been arrested in connection with the sudden death of a 22-year-old Bradford woman.
Sana Abbasi, 22, died on Friday several weeks after she was admitted to hospital with suspected poisoning.
Two people –...
“You could have killed one of us”
School children from Ward End Primary spent a day asking speeding drivers to account for their actions, after they were caught breaking a 20mph speed limit outside the school.
Over the course of three hours 19 drivers were stopped by...
