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Daily Archives: 08/09/2016

TOP OF THE COPS: Chief Superintendent Mabs Hussein has been shortlisted for a top gong at the Asian Achievers Awards

A real bobby-dazzler! Wakefield District Commander Shortlisted for Asian Achievers Award

Chief Superintendent Mabs Hussain of the Wakefield District has been shortlisted for a prestigious award at the annual Asian Achievers ceremony in the category...
TEAMING UP: Ikram Butt, Mark Burns-Williamson and Lord Patel of Bradford were in full support of the day (pic credit, Tabz Media)

Bowling out domestic violence: Cricket history at Headingley

History was made at Headingley last Sunday as the UK’s first all Asian women’s cricket team took to the field to ‘bowl out domestic...
RACIAL SLURS: BBC’s Great British Bake off contestant Rav Bansal has received racial slurs on social media (Pic cred: BBC/Love Productions/Mark Bourdillon)

Bake off bigotry: TV contestant receives online hate messages

The Great British Bake Off is back again and people up and down the country are talking about scones, bread and buns. However, for some...
POIGNANT: The lighting of the Paralympic flame signalled that start of the Games on Wednesday evening (pic credit: onEdition)

Paralympics begin with a BANG

Team GB targeting record medal haul in Brazil As British athletes continue to settle back into their lives in the UK following a record breaking...
FUN: Donkey rides were a popular attraction in Batley (Pic cred: Adam Patterson/Open Society Foundations)

“People want to live in harmony”: #MoreInCommon events take Yorkshire by storm

After a summer which has seen Britain seemingly more divided than ever, an organisation has begun to start healing divisions by bringing people together...
DISGUSTING: Naheem Uddin and Ismail Ali were both sentenced to 14 years in prison

Vile monsters raped teen: Duo sentenced to total of 28 years

Two men from Bradford, who behaved ‘like animals’ as they took it in turns to sexually abuse a vulnerable 13-year-old-girl in a city hotel,...
CREATOR: Caroline Jaine painted to portrait for the ‘Forgotten Heroes’ exhibition

Leeds’ ‘Forgotten Hero’: The story of a legend, told via a paintbrush

Among the huge array of objects which make up Leeds City Museum’s In Their Footsteps exhibition, there are many stirring examples of courage and...
HAPPY FAMILIES: Sisters Yasmeen, Sophia and Miriam have organised a community family Funday to bring out the best in Beeston

Making Beeston better

Siblings join forces to bring community together Three sisters from a Leeds suburb, who say they were ‘tired of seeing negative news stories appear about...

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