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The third instalment in the 'Dabangg' franchise is out in cinemas. The film sees Bollywood stars Salman Khan and Sonakshi Sinha reprise their roles of Chulbul Pandey and Rajjo Pandey. The film also sees newcomer Saiee Manjrekar make her big Bollywood debut as Khushi. Saiee plays the love interest...
A talented teenage boxer who was battling depression took his own life ­- just three weeks after police talked him down from the top of a multi-storey car park. 17-year-old Mohammad Reza Ebadi-Farkoosh, known to friends as Ash, was studying sports science at Bolton College.
Detectives have found the remains of a missing man who vanished in a suspected drugs murder eight months ago. Mohammed Shah Subhani, 27, was thought to have had several thousand pounds on him when he failed to return to his home in Hounslow, west London.
Sixteen men, including police constable Amjad Ditta have been charged with a variety of offences following an investigation into non-recent child sexual exploitation in Halifax. The allegations against the defendants are from 2006 to 2009 against three female victims, who were aged between 13 and 16 years old at the time of the alleged...
The UK government is matching all donations made to health charity Sightsavers this winter as part of an ambitious fundraising appeal. Donations made before 9th January 2020 will be matched by the UK government up to £2 million, making gifts go twice as far.
A statue of a Sikh soldier was unveiled in a West Yorkshire park to commemorate the thousands of Sikhs who fought and died in WWI and WWII. The stunning six-foot-high bronze solider was revealed at Greenhead Park in Huddersfield last month. The Sikh Soldier...
When 45-year-old Shamilla Mirza found a pea-shaped lump in her breast, she was shocked to be diagnosed with breast cancer. It was a particularly difficult time for her family as Shamilla’s dad had only died three months earlier from a brain haemorrhage. Shamilla...
'Winter is coming'... well actually it's already here (we just wanted to sound like Jon Snow), but anyway... it's set to be one of the chilliest in decades. While the frosty mornings might look Insta-pretty, your frozen windscreen is not so ideal, particularly as you can guarantee you’ll have to deal with it on...
A 61-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured in crash with police car in Bradford last night. The incident occurred in Lilycroft Road, Girlington, at approximately 4:50 pm. The lady was taken via air ambulance to Leeds General Infirmary. It’s understood she has suffered serious injuries. Police officers were in a marked...
Pakistan’s former military leader General Pervez Musharraf has been sentenced to death at a special court hearing in Islamabad. Musharraf was found guilty of high treason and subverting the constitution by a special court, Pakistani officials said. The special three-member court sentenced him...
A team of professional consultants with an ambition to help shape the future, say they can train anyone with a drive and ambition to launch a business - be it product or a service. Author and business consultant Rashid Ullah, has spend 15-years working predominantly with corporate clients as well as running his own...
Protests have broken out in northeast India over Narendra Modi’s contentious new citizenship law, which makes naturalisation for Muslims harder. India’s major step toward the official marginalisation of Muslims approved by one house of Parliament saw the passing of a bill that would establish a religious test for migrants who want to become...
It’s been a testing and bumpy election ride for rival parties as Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party won a landslide majority this morning. With Labour suffering serious and devastating losses across the country in a dramatic general election, Jeremy Corbyn has stated he won’t be fighting another election, and will be taking this time to...
In a historic moment for both Lewis Hamilton and Valentino Rossi, and their respective sports, the pair completed an unprecedented track day as each swapped machinery at the Circuit Ricardo Tormo. Valentino Rossi drove The Mercedes-AMG F1 W08 EQ Power+, a car that won the 2017 FIA Formula One™ World Championship with Mercedes-AMG Petronas...
A former doctor has been found guilty of sexually assaulting dozens of female patients by conducting unnecessary, intrusive medical examinations over a five-year period. Manish Shah, 50, from Romford, was found guilty of nine counts of sexual assault and 16 counts of sexual assault by penetration, relating to eight women, after a six-week trial...
A Muslim schoolgirl says she has been left traumatised after she was punched and 'strangled' with her own hijab on her way home from school. Redana Al-Hadi, 14, was travelling with her 13-year-old sister, Wadaad on a single decker bus, when she was punched repeatedly by a woman who shouted racial slurs at her.
McDonald’s Bradford celebrated 30 years of fundraising for Ronald McDonald House Charities UK this year. McDonald's is the biggest supporter of the charity, raising money through collection boxes and fundraising events in the restaurants across Bradford. The charity was founded 30 years ago and provides free ‘home away from...
"We saw an issue in the local community of kids not having an outlet and being attracted to be drugs mules and joining gangs." A junior football team has been awarded a Queen’s Award for it’s work with youngsters in Bradford. Alpha United Juniors Football Club was honoured with the...
UK-based Pakistani charities and voluntary organisations must work together to tackle challenges facing some of our most disadvantaged communities. That was the core message to delegates attending the inaugural annual conference of the Network of Pakistani Organisations (NPO-UK) at the Aga Khan University in London.

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