“We’ll do whatever it takes” says Rishi Sunak
Britain has unveiled a 330 billion-pound lifeline of loan guarantees and will provide a further 20 billion pounds in tax cuts, grants and other help for businesses facing the risk of collapse from the spread of coronavirus.
President Trump sent a tweet on Monday 16th March describing the new coronavirus - which causes the disease Covid-19 - as the “Chinese virus”.
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China has reacted angrily, with the foreign ministry in Beijing saying it's wrong to stigmatise China and that...
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to unveil a "significant" economic rescue package to help businesses and individuals affected by the coronavirus pandemic.
Rishi Sunak will take the government's daily COVID-19 news conference in Downing Street later and will use the televised address to announce the new measures.
It comes less than...
British nationals have been advised to avoid all non-essential foreign travel for 30 days as the coronavirus pandemic continues.
The decision comes after stringent social measures to tackle the virus were announced.
Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said the "fast-changing international circumstances" of the worldwide outbreak of COVID-19, the disease caused...
The UK has shifted to tougher measures partly as a result of a document produced by the COVID-19 team at London's Imperial College.
The modelling by Imperial College London has been heavily informed by the experience in Italy and is influencing decisions at the heart of government.
A strategy of just...
Despite the government telling us to not "panic buy" amid coronavirus fears, but many are doing the exact opposite. It seems that every other social media post is about panic buying, but why toilet paper?
Experts in psychology explain the science behind stockpiling and why toilet roll has become a sought after commodity.
A Great British Spring clean event is set to take place with staff volunteers from two of the Bradford McDonald’s, owned and operated by Saj Shah, a local Bradford-born businessman, on Monday 23rd March.
The event is in partnership with Bradford City Council and other local community interest groups, all with a shared interest...
Hoards of school children aged 13 to 16, from Halifax Academy carried out angry protests over the suspension of a much-loved PE teacher Mr Yasar Mohammed.
Students left their classes and paraded Gibbet Street chanting "justice for Yasar" on Thursday 12th March. They were also joined by some former students of Halifax Academy.
Religion asks people to gather, but the coronavirus outbreak has seen many rites and traditions being disrupted.
But now with just five months to go before Islam’s most sacred pilgrimage - Hajj, it is unclear if Saudi Arabia will reopen holy sites to millions of foreign Muslims. Hajj hangs in the balance as fears...
India has suspended the issue of almost all visas, except a a select few, until 15th April as a response to halt the spread of Covid-19.
Visa-free travel for foreigners of Indian origin will also be suspended, according to the health ministry, which added that “any foreign national who intends to travel to India...
A callous fraudster has been brought before the courts after conning an elderly man out of his bank cards and going on a spending spree.
Mohammad Hussain, 37, pleaded guilty to two counts of fraud by false representation. He had duped a man in his 80s into handing over his bank cards by pretending...
Detectives investigating drug-dealing in the West End have released images of ten people they want to speak to.
Their identities are sought by police as part of a long-running operation - Operation Dissemble - aimed at disrupting the drug supply network in and around Soho, and bringing those peddling the drugs to justice.
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Burping and farting cows make the production of butter three-and-a-half times as damaging to the environment as plant-based spreads, according to a new study.
An estimated 12 million loaves of bread are sold in the UK each day - and Brits want something to...
Bradford’s £3.5m project which aims to get more than 100,000 local people engaged in the arts has just appointed Zulfiqar Ahmed as Director.
Creative People and Places programme ‘The Leap’ is set to shape a new cultural programme for the district. The news is yet another exciting milestone in Bradford’s ambitious cultural plans, following...
In an historic moment for apprentices across the UK, NUS’ has confirmed the acceptance of The National Society of Apprentices (NSoA) into its membership.
The agreement means that for the first time NSoA will formally represent the views of apprentices at NUS’ National Conference, where key policies and campaigning priorities are...
An architect from Oxford has taken up the challenge of running 25 marathons in 25 days to raise money for the cancer patients in Pakistan.
Saeed Khan is running the distance of a marathon (26.2miles/42KM) around the streets of Oxford every day, to raise funds for the Shaukat Khanum Hospitals in Pakistan.
Italy's government has imposed a nationwide lockdown after its number of confirmed coronavirus cases rose past 9,100 and its death toll jumped to 463 on Monday night. It has the most cases and deaths of any country outside China.
Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte announced sweeping orders, imposing severe travel limits, across the whole country...
Leeds based contemporary dance company Möbius Dance returns to Bradford on with the world premiere of two poetic and thought-provoking new works – Vibrant Matter and Within Each-Other.
Wilhelmina Ojanen’s stage work, Vibrant Matter, explores how memories and emotions affect our bodies. Gianluca Vincentini’s screen dance, With Each-Other uses up close personal physicality exposing...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has this morning chaired an emergency Cobra meeting discussing a range of steps which could be introduced to contain and delay coronavirus.
The UK remains in the containment phase of the government's four-part plan to tackle the spread of the coronavirus. But it is now "accepted" the virus will spread...
Sister speaks out for the first time on Samia Shahid’s death
First Published Fri, 9th March 2018
"WE’VE BEEN DRAGGED THROUGH “HELL"
The unexpected death of a British national abroad almost always makes national headlines, but in the case of a Bradford woman Samia Shahid, the story attracted immense attention when a narrative suggested that it was an ‘honour killing’.
Now for the...
