The Home Office has granted the Community Security Trust (CST) £14 million for security measures to help keep members of the Jewish community safe in their daily lives.
The grant will cover protective security for the next financial year at Jewish institutions such as schools and synagogues.
CST, a charity that...
More Brits stranded abroad because of coronavirus will be able to get back to the UK following an arrangement struck between the government and the airlines industry.
With many countries closing borders and imposing travel restrictions, many UK travellers are struggling to get home.
The Foreign and Commonwealth Office have announced...
Healthy young teenager Ismail Mohamed Abdulwahab, sadly died in King's College Hospital this week. He is thought to be the youngest person to have died with the coronavirus in the UK.
The boy's family from from Brixton in south London, said he passed away all alone, without his mother or six siblings by his...
The 2020 National Living Wage (NLW) has come into effect with a 6.2% increase on the previous rate.
The NLW rate applies to over 25 year olds from 1st April while other workers’ rights to come into place on 6th April.
The new rate results in an increase of £930 over...
Lenders are scrapping their home loan deals as the UK mortgage market goes into lockdown.
One of the UK's biggest lenders - Nationwide pulled out of new deals, as have others.
Others are doing the same as the home mortgage market goes into lockdown amid the coronavirus which has brought...
Houseparty has become one of the most downloaded apps in several countries, with up to two million downloads a week in recent days.
But online rumours emerging on Monday 30th March alleged that downloading the app led to other services such as Netflix and Spotify being hacked.
The company said there...
While people are locked down in the coronavirus-induced quarantine, a WhatsApp message talking about ‘8D’ audio is currently doing the rounds. And it’s causing quite a stir in the same fashion as ASMR did.
The WhatsApp message reads: ‘It is the new music of the Pentatonix, composed with 8D technology. Listen to it only...
Authorities in Belgium have said a 12-year-old girl has died after contracting coronavirus. She becomes the youngest known person in Europe to have died from the virus.
It is not yet known if the girl had underlying health conditions.
Belgium currently has confirmed around 12,705 are infected, and has had over...
“Small food outlets in Bradford have faced abuse over remaining open during the coronavirus pandemic”
With most of the nation living under the government-imposed lockdown, Asian takeaway’s have been called upon to “up their game” and continue serving the people.
The government’s guidelines state food delivery and takeaways can remain...
The Council for Mosques (CfM), has been working diligently with Bradford council, the hospitals and the coroner’s office to ensure that burial procedures for patients who pass away from COVID-19 are sensitive to Muslim practices.
“Further to some serious concerns raised by the community about Muslim funerals, it’s understandable that people are anxious,” says...
The Prime Minister Boris Johnson has today tested positive for coronavirus.
He was last seen in public outside No 10 clapping as part of the nationwide gesture to thank NHS staff on Thursday 26th March.
Mr Johnson, 55, said he developed mild symptoms over the past 24 hours, including a...
Following criticism about available assistance for the self employed during the coronavirus pandemic, Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced measures.
Mr Sunak said that if they have suffered a loss in income, a taxable grant will be paid to the self-employed or partnerships, worth 80% of their profits up to a cap of £2,500 per...
Pakistani fashion designer Maria B and her husband Tahir Saeed have defended their decision to send their cook, a coronavirus patient, back to his village.
Earlier this week, she posted a desperate video on social media pleading the Prime Minister Imran Khan to intervene in her husband's arrest.
The video...
A quarter of the world's 7.8 billion population is now under lockdown, including India's near 1.4 billion.
It's an unprecedented lockdown in a country that has reported 519 confirmed cases and 10 deaths so far from the virus. Prime Minister Narendra Modi imposed the "total lockdown" as a necessary step in order to ''save...
Prince Charles, 71, has tested positive for coronavirus, Clarence House has confirmed.
The prince is said to be up and about and not bedridden.
A Clarence House spokesman said: “He has been displaying mild symptoms but otherwise remains in good health and has been working from home throughout the last few...
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games were due to run from 24th July to 9th August, but have now been postponed until next year because of the worldwide coronavirus pandemic.
The event will still be called Tokyo 2020 despite taking place in 2021.
In a joint statement, the organisers of...
Over the weekend Muslim and Jewish leaders raised alarms that the coronavirus bill will interfere burying their deceased.
Concerns were that cremation could be used in contravention to deeply-held religious beliefs and traditions.
The bill covers many areas, including powers in relation to transportation, storage and disposal of dead bodies.
British doctors and health workers throughout the UK have voiced alarming concerns about a lack of sufficient Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) to deal with possible coronavirus patients, potentially exposing themselves and putting vulnerable patients at risk.
A junior doctor working at a North West hospital told the Asian Express he felt "terrified" for his...
The UK has carried out just under 80,000 coronavirus blood tests, with the government promising to ramp up testing of suspected coronavirus cases. But these measures still fall significantly short of the levels called for by the World Health Organisation (WHO).
In the UK, testing has mainly been carried out on those admitted to...
A junior doctor has begun a petition to the Health Minister, Matt Hancock, which calls for the prioritisation of testing for NHS staff. It has had more than 1.16 million signatures of support.
Dr Rebecca McCauley says: "I have a dilemma. I have a cough.
"I’m a junior doctor,...
