Five men who used a multitude of weapons that included knives, swords and baseball bats to commit a brutal attack on a rival have been convicted at the Old Bailey following the conclusion of a trial.
Amandeep Sandhu, 30 (01.04.87) of Townsend Road, Southall and Ravinder Singh-Shergil, 31 (18.03.86) of Colville Close, Tipton were found guilty of the murder of...
Jet Airways connects India to the North of England with direct flight service
A new service aims to open up travel between India and the North of England from winter this year.
The addition of the fifth direct service makes Jet Airways the largest carrier between the UK and Mumbai. Guests will be able to enjoy the luxury and comfort of...
Police are appealing for the public’s help to find a missing 13-year-old girl.
Joanna Mohammad, 13, has been missing from her home address in Westminster since 20:30hrs on Sunday, 10 June.
Joanna’s phone is turned off and officers and family are extremely concerned for her welfare.
Joanna was last seen wearing a light grey and royal blue jumper, blue jeans, and black...
The UK is providing emergency medical treatment to people at risk from a deadly heatwave that has seen temperatures in Pakistan reach as high as 45°C, significantly hotter than the temperature in London today which is expected to reach 24°C.
UK aid is providing relief to up to 30,000 vulnerable people, including children and the elderly, in some of the...
Police dealing with Beeston mosque and gurdwara arson as hate crimes
Police are appealing for information following two arson attacks on two places of worship in Beeston, Leeds, in the early hours of Tuesday 5th June. The mosque and gurdwara were targeted by arsonists in what police believe were linked hate crimes.
At 3.42am police were contacted by the fire service...
Canadian councillors praised and thanked for their expeditious efforts to promptly remove racist graffiti
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Racist graffiti has promptly been removed from the walls of a Muslim school in Toronto’s eastern region, Scarborough, after a city councillor spotted the hateful messages spray-painted on the brick walls.
The Toronto Councillor Glenn De Baeremaeker who discovered the expletive-filled vandalism while out for a morning...
Drugs worth millions and a firearm seized as investigations target organised crime and violence along class A supply chain
A man and a woman have been charged respectively with firearms and drugs offences as investigations by a joint NCA and Metropolitan Police unit targeted organised crime and associated violence from UK ports to London streets.
The two investigations are part of...
Pursuing boundary disputes through the courts can be a very costly and stressful exercise. The parties usually end up incurring legal costs disproportionate to the value of the land itself and often end up falling out irretrievably with their neighbour. In the light of this a new protocol, known as the Protocol for Disputes between Neighbours about the Location...
Following an outcry from human rights groups accusing the Israeli military of using excessive force on the Israel-Gaza border, which left 60 dead and injured over 2400 people on Monday 14th May, Britain has now called for an "independent investigation" to take place.
Calls for a probe come from Alistair Burt, a minister at the foreign office responsible for Middle...
New drama courses are being launched in Bradford in a bid to stop budding actors feeling they must move leave Yorkshire to get drama-school style training.
Bradford College hopes its two new specialised degree-level courses – in acting and musical theatre – will halt the drain of drama talent from the county.
The HND (Higher National Diploma) courses have been designed...
Two members of a Nigerian organised crime group who committed more than £1m worth of fraud and money laundering after staging a mass phishing con have been jailed after a National Crime Agency investigation.
Emmanuel Mmaduike and Olawale Kashimawo, both 31, spent the money on a lavish lifestyle – hiring a helicopter, driving flash cars – and regularly posed...
A second British amateur rugby player has died after complaining of breathing difficulties on returning from a nightclub in Sri Lanka
Whilst awareness and acceptance of mental conditions at the milder end of the spectrum is near commonplace, the same cannot be said for severe illnesses such as bipolar, addictions and schizophrenia. Stigma and misunderstanding still pervade and some conditions are more readily accepted than others, and in the Asian community even more so.
Societally we may think we’re ‘clued up’...
Palestinians gathered in Gaza city on Tuesday 15th May for the funerals of some 60 people, including an eight-month-old baby girl, killed by Israeli troops who fired tear gas into tented protest encampments set up a few hundred yards inside the border.
Violence on the border on Monday 14th May took place as the United States opened its new embassy in...
At her wedding ceremony, Sonam looked as if she’d just walked out of a fairytale.
Sonam and Anand, looking dapper and totally in love, as they made their first official appearance as a couple before the media.
But while it's usually Sonam who sets tongues wagging with her unusual fashion choices, at the newly wed's star-studded wedding reception it was her...
Friday, 11 May marks the 33rd anniversary of the Bradford City AFC fire disaster at Valley Parade.
The Lord Mayor of Bradford, Coun Abid Hussain, will attend the memorial service on Friday, 11 May to remember the 56 people who died in the disaster in 1985.
The Mayor and Mayoress of Lincoln will represent the city of Lincoln at the event....
A man who watched a four-year-old girl being sexually abused has been jailed following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation.
Adam Nowak, 41, of Lambeth, London, was a habitual user of an online chat room used to share indecent images of children and was logged in while the assault was streamed in real time from Denmark in 2015.
The girl has...
A man who attempted to kill four young children by beating them with a hammer before deliberately driving into a stone wall has had his sentence increased after the Solicitor General, Robert Buckland QC MP, referred it for being too low.
On 22 August 2017 Owen Scott, 29, was driving with the children, aged between 9 months and 8 years....
Detectives are appealing for witnesses after £20,000 of gold was stolen during a robbery in Birkby.
The incident happened on Thursday 26 April between 12:45 and 13:10 on Sufton Street.
Suspects forced their way into the jewellers after distracting the shop owner. Once inside the premises, there was an altercation between them and the shop owner who was thrown on the...
