Monthly Archives: February 2016
Bag boy in Messi meet up
Afghan child who made a homemade football t-shirt to meet hero
Five-year-old Murtaza Ahmadi, who lives in the Afghan province of Ghazni, has had his...
Shayan serves up an ace at Muslim Awards
Table tennis teen is top sportsmen for 2016
A sporty teenager from Leeds has added another trophy to his growing collection this past week, this...
UN panel rules in Assange’s favour: WikiLeaks founder should be allowed to go free
WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, 44, should be allowed to go free from his three-and-half year arbitrary detention at the Ecuadorian embassy in London and...
Tyson Fury may hang up his gloves
Boxer doesn’t want sport to become ‘about money’
World heavyweight champion Tyson Fury is struggling to motivate himself and could quit boxing, the controversial fighter...
Tackling cross-border operations
‘Intended use’ policy welcomed by Bradford’s cabbies
Bradford Council has welcomed moves by a Lancashire local authority to put an end to the problem of...
Tanzanian student beaten and stripped in Bangalore
India’s Foreign Minister ‘deeply pained over shocking incident’
Five people have been arrested by police in the southern Indian city of Bangalore in connection with...
Mass exodus in Aleppo
Thousands of Syrians flee city after Russian airstrikes
Tens of thousands of Syrians are being forced out of the city of Aleppo towards the...
Controversial ‘bus gates’ cause traffic chaos
Huddersfield’s new scheme sees motorists flouting the rules
Huddersfield town centre has activated new ‘bus gates’, much to the dismay of motorists.
Many drivers have already...
Over 400,000 objects from the National Media Museum to be transferred to V&A
Bradford to lose big bounty of arty artefacts
A recently signed agreement, which will see more than 400,000 objects from Bradford’s National Media Museum...
Singing sensation from Bradford gets popstars’ chairs swinging
Wibsey warbler wows Will.i.am
Twenty-one-year-old Bradford-born singer, Faheem Ashraf, had the judges' chairs spinning around faster than a vinyl record player set to the rotational speed of...
Brum brum!!! Driverless cars for Brum!
Birmingham will see hi-tech shuttles arrive in the region next year
A £2.3 million funding package which will bring state-of-the-art driverless cars to Birmingham has...
Well built by well wishers
Students ensure late classmate from Bradford will be remembered
A water well is being built in Nepal in memory of a Bradford College student who...
Parents of Jihadi Jack arrested
Mum and dad sent money to Syria so that son could buy glasses
The parents of a British man, who purportedly travelled to Syria to...
“You fit right here!”
President Obama has a clear message for American Muslims
After seven years in office, the President of the United States, Barack Obama, has finally set...
World Curry Festival: Gastro-diplomacy brings people together over food
World Curry Festival jets off to Malaysia
For the second year running, the Bradford-born World Curry Festival has once again cooked up a storm...
Warehouse robbery horror
Birmingham father-of-four shot dead by masked men
Detectives have launched a major investigation after a man was shot dead during an attempted robbery at a...
Aston Martin DB10 from ‘Spectre’ up for auction
One of the exclusively created and very special DB10 Bond cars built for the ‘Spectre’ film by Aston Martin will be auctioned off at...
No flood defences is indefensible
Kirkstall legend Azram opens up about his closed restaurant
It was 5.30pm on Boxing Day last year, and Azram was serving his beloved customers at...
Run, walk or cycle for your 2016 charity challenge
Places still available for Halifax to Bradford fundraiser
In 2014, they raised £2,000, in 2015 it was £7,000, and now, with just weeks to...
AK47s amongst the mountain of life-threatening loot handed in to police
Ammunition amnesty
A weapons amnesty across West Yorkshire has meant that an enormous haul of guns and knives have been handed over to police.
This included...
