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A LEICESTER-based Asian wedding service has scooped top prize at the Wrapit Wedding Industry Awards. Tania-Tapel Limited proved themselves to be top of the tree - having been voted Britain's best wedding planners. The Leicester-based company took the coveted honour at a glittering...

Board confident future tours will not be affectedPAKISTAN Cricket Board Chairman Nasim Ashraf is confident future tours to the country will go ahead despite Australia pulling out of their scheduled tour later this month due to security concerns. Pakistan...

A MAN and a boy who brutally murdered a teenager by stamping on his head have today been sentenced to life in jail. Joseph Jimmy Booth, 18, of Tildsley Street, Great Lever, and a 15-year-old boy who cannot be named...

C4 drama tabled for Royal Television Society AwardCHANNEL 4 drama Britz has been nominated for a Royal Television Society award. The drama has been shortlisted in the Best Drama Serial category alongside BBC’s ‘Five Days’ and ‘Torn’ which was...

Security the issue as tour ‘postponed’AUSTRALIA will not be travelling to Pakistan later this month for a Test and One Day Series because of security concerns, it has been announced today. The decision finally came after months of uncertainty...

Asian music awards honour stars of past yearGLITZ, Glamour and plenty of Gyrating was the recipe for this years UK Asian Music Awards which took place at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall and it went down a treat as...

Actress is still ‘Miss Bollywood’, says publicistSHILPA Shetty has denied reports that she has been axed from the second run of her successful West End musical 'Miss Bollywood'. A report in Indian tabloid Mumbai Mirror alleged that the show's...

POLICE have named a Tipton man shot dead last week. 39-year-old Harun Khan died after being shot in Tudor Street in Tipton last Monday. He was taken to Russells Hall Hospital, Dudley, but died. A 36-year-old man arrested on suspicion of murder...

GUANTANAMO Bay is Pants – that’s the message from cosmetics company Lush whose staff have begun a week-long campaign against prisoners’ treatment at the notorious American prison camp. Staff across most of the company’s UK stores will wear orange knickers...

FOUR people have been charged over the death of a Burnley father who died whilst trying to protect his son. Father-of-seven Mohammed Raja Shafiq died earlier this week after he tried to stop a fight in Thompson Park, Burnley. He was...

THE ASIAN community is less likely to attend cancer screening than non-Asians, a new study has revealed. The study is the first of its kind and was conducted by the University of Warwick. It found that only one in three...

Anupam Kher goes global with Bollywood academy RENOWNED Indian actor Anupam Kher has revealed he is to open a Bollywood acting school in London. The actor, a veteran of over 400 films, will open his first international Actor Prepares...