Group start petition for detained Pakistani students

Campaigners describe treatment as “mockery of justice”A GROUP campaigning for the release of seven Pakistan students detained without charge and whose cases are being heard in a ‘secret court’ by the British government has described their treatment as a...

Bollywood star ‘missing family’

Fardeen Khan rushes to London ahead of big movie releaseFARDEEN Khan has taken the title of his forthcoming romantic comedy, Life Partner, quite seriously. While the Abbas-Mustan/Studio 18 co-production releases worldwide next week, Fardeen airdashed to London last week to...

Bollywood goes West

Jaan-e-mann director Shirish Kunder returns with two new moviesBACK in 2006, director Shirish Kunder released the Akshay Kumar-Preity Zinta-Salman Khan love triangle Jaan-e-mann. Since then he has been playing the role of devoted father, bringing up triplets with choreographer...

Monthly Health Tips with Dr Phil Dyer

This month Dr Dyer gives advice on Swine FluWhat is swine flu and how is it different from ordinary flu? Swine flu is a respiratory virus, which has some elements of a virus found in pigs. Pandemic flu is different from...

Asian women ‘targetted’ for gold jewellery

Midland police officers issue warningsASIAN women are being targetted in the street by thieves who snatch gold necklaces before fleeing, police in Wolverhampton have revealed. The area has seen a rise in the number of Asian women victims aged...

Graffiti artist to take murals abroad

Muslim Hands commission Mohammed Ali for global projectMUSLIM Hands has commissioned a Birmingham graffiti artist to paint his unique, thought-provoking murals in cities across the globe. Award-winning artist Mohammed Ali, better known through his work Aerosol Arabic, has spent...

Dairy bosses guilty of industrial espionage

Dairy bosses who stole from rival lose High Court case and ordered to pay outA MIDLAND dairy company, who tried to drive a rival out of business by paying an illegal immigrant thousands of pounds of money to steal...

Phone box link to taxi driver murder

Detectives eager to trace callerPOLICE investigating the murder of Birmingham taxi driver Mohammed Arshad have made a fresh plea for witnesses after confirming that a call to the taxi driver’s firm came from a telephone kiosk in Kings Norton. Detectives...

Eight charged over Bilston murder

Married father-of-four gunned down outside city bar DETECTIVES investigating the murder of a Wolverhampton father-of-four have charged seven men and one woman with his murder. Swinder Singh Batth, from Moxley, was shot dead outside Gavin's Sports Bar in Bilston on Tuesday...

Stars back Leicester’s World Cup host campaign

‘Leicester is like second home’, says cricket star Munaf PatelA BOLLYWOOD star, a world-class cricketer and world record holder have all backed Leicester’s bid to be a host city for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. Bollywood veteran Dalip Tahil, Indian...

Swine Flu threatens Hajj

Saudi Arabia concern as British charity urges high-risk groups to defer visitTHE annual Hajj pilgrimage is under threat from swine flu. As thousands of British Muslims finalise their packages to Saudi Arabia for the pilgrimage to Mecca later this year,...

Gold jewellery robbers jailed

Blackburn pair targeted homes of Asian familiesTWO Blackburn robbers who preyed on the homes of Asian families stealing over £100,000 worth of gold jewellery have been jailed. Bilal Zeb, 20, and Waqaar Ali, 20, both from Blackburn targeted Asian...