Women are celebrating women at an awards ceremony supported and hosted by Shri Virendra Sharma MP Southall and Ealing, Chairman Indo -British All Parliamentary Party Group.
Inspiring India Women (IIW) have finalised winners from 13 categories and will gather to celebrate their achievements at the Houses of Parliament. The women are a selection of everyday-inspirers to women who’ve smashed stereotypes...
Criminal kingpins have been counting the cost across Yorkshire and Humber after being stung for over £109-million in a decade of POCA confiscations.
Financial investigators at West Yorkshire Police and the Regional Asset Recovery Team (RART) have truly made sure crime doesn’t pay after ten years of recovering criminal assets to reinvest in the fight against crime.
In the latest confiscation...
Voters are overwhelmingly opposed to any new appointments to the House of Lords, according to new BMG Research polling.
60% of those with a view oppose the mooted appointments – compared to just 9% who support them, according to the poll for the Electoral Reform Society.
59% of Conservatives with a view are against the new peerages, as well as 63%...
Drivers are being urged to be prepared before setting out on journeys after Highways England issued a severe weather alert for tomorrow (Tuesday) in the North East, Yorkshire, the Midlands, East and South East.
With snow forecast throughout the week, Highways England’s gritting teams will be working around the clock to treat roads and keep traffic moving.
An amber ‘be prepared’...
Dr Jason Wouhra, IoD West Midlands Chairman, has been invested with an OBE for services to Business and International Trade by His Royal Highness Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales.
Dr Wouhra, who was 39 when he received news of his award, is a Director and Company Secretary of East End Foods plc, and said he was “delighted, honoured and...
Despite not being able to swim PC Mohammed Nadeem dived into a river to save drowning man in freezing water
PC Mohammed Nadeem is being hailed a hero after he risked his own life by leaping into freezing water, despite not being a swimmer, to rescue a man who had fallen into a river.
Nadeem said he "just had to go...
Finally, a quality Indian restaurant has opened in Guiseley bringing an air of spicy love to the locals and beyond.
Over a hundred guests joined the celebratory grand launch last week of Mumbai Village. Local businesses attended to explore the restaurant’s culinary skills all to the beat of traditional dhol musicians.
The new exciting restaurant has a wide range of...
Renowned food brand MyLahore opened its newest yummy food site on Kirkstall Road, Leeds on Thursday 8th February.
The shiny new restaurant, with room for over 150 guests and a private dining area for 100 people upgrades and reinstates MyLahore’s much-loved presence in Leeds from it’s former Burley Road site.
And if the raving reviews are anything to go by, MyLahore’s...
As of 6th April 2018, a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs) will come into effect in the UK. It is believed this measure will help target population obesity, particularly among younger adults, and reduce the adverse health and cost burdens of obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular diseases.
Sugar is known to contribute to obesity epidemic, due to low satiety and stimulate...
After a tremendous amateur career, which includes winning silver at the commonwealth games, boxing in the olympics and winning numerous other tournaments, Qais Kezz Ashfaq makes his professional debut.
After being in Great Britain’s largest Olympic boxing squad since 2010 for eight years and a stellar career in the senior amateur divisions, 24-year-old Kezz makes his debut as a pro...
'I don't feel there's a place for me in this world anymore' - those are the chilling words of a young woman who was threatened with a gun, before being raped behind a mosque, in the street and at her own home by two sickening Sheffield teenagers.
Jason Pitter QC told Sheffield Crown Court how the young woman was home...
A new report into retail returns reveals many of Britain’s favourite retro clothing, hobby and collectors’ stores will fail in 2018, because customers expect to be able to return items for any reason, without even paying postage.
The UK’s best-loved retro clothing, hobby and collectable stores are under threat. In a new report by the leading courier price site ParcelHero...
Around 300 homeowners in Yorkshire and the North East who live near motorways or major A roads could soon get free double glazing to reduce noise levels.
A new Highways England initiative will see the owners of more than 3,000 homes across the country being offered upgrades to windows, bi-folding doors and patio doors in bedrooms, living rooms, dining rooms...
Largest Muslim funeral in Leeds as thousands offer Namaz-e-Janaza of community hero Akhlaq Hussain Mir
The funeral of a man considered to be a “pillar of the community” witnessed the biggest Muslim funeral in Leeds take place. Thousands of mourners overflowed into the mosque’s adjoining streets to offer the Namaz-e-Janaza (funeral prayers) for Akhlaq Hussain Mir.
66-year-old Mr Mir, chairman of...
A persistent fly-tipper was caught on camera using a van, which was later crushed by Bradford Council.
The Ford Transit van was linked to multiple fly-tipping offences across the district and it was seized after being spotted on a grass verge in Lynfield Drive, Heaton.
Imran David Bham and another person were filmed using the van to fly-tip in 2016 but...
Authorities in Indian capital Delhi say they have asked actor Pierce Brosnan to explain why he was in an advert for a local mouth freshener associated with an addictive form of chewing tobacco.
Indian law prohibits all advertisements of tobacco products.
Now Indian officials say he could be fined 5,000 rupees (£56) or go to jail for two years if he...
An upcoming annual Zumbathon challenge next month, sets an upbeat tone in engaging women from all backgrounds to help raise money for children’s cancer charity Candlelighters.
Now in it’s fourth year, Muslim-based charity Give a Gift, has raised over £100,000 for numerous Yorkshire-based children’s charities.
This year’s event kicks off with a dhumka shumka (hip swagger) on Sunday 4th March to...
A poet, mental health campaigner, Guinness World Record holder and future space traveller visited Bradford College to inspire students.
Hussain Manawer spoke and performed for students at an event organised by the college’s student-run social work society.
The 26-year-old told the audience how he turned his life around from being an under-achiever at school to seeing off 30,000 other entrants from...
A Bradford-born and Otley-raised man has been appointed as a Queen’s Counsel (QC) following his impressive credentials as a courtroom man.
As a student at the University of Huddersfield, Dapinder Singh realised that criminal law and advocacy were the facets of the course that most fascinated him and they became his focus.
This led to a highly successful courtroom career and...
Nabeelah Hafeez brings her experience of growing up in the Pakistani community in Bradford to Kala Sangam, through images and words captured by Nabeelah and her late father the Poet Mohammed Hafeez Johar.
When the late Bradford based poet Mohammad Hafeez Johar passed away one of his prized possessions – a pentax camera – to his daughter Nabeelah Hafeez, a...
