If you’ve got one of those large plastic cola money bottles which you’ve been happily filling with change, it might be time to cash it in as there are just days left before businesses can refuse to accept them.
From Monday 16th October, the round £1 coin will no longer be legal tender, having been replaced by a new 12-sided...
Specialist hub will channel all reports of online hate crime through one single, expert unit to reduce burden on officers
Home Secretary Amber Rudd has today announced a new national hub to tackle the emerging threat of online hate crime. It will ensure better support for victims and help drive up the number of prosecutions.
The hub, run by police...
Bosses of a renowned and much-enjoyed national chain of eateries states the shenanigans of their energy supplier has marred their hard-earned reputation.
Pepe’s Piri Piri was all ready set to open on Roundhay Road, Leeds, in February this year but their energy supplier Scottish Power have continued to cancel appointments repeatedly and “mess them around” on the fitting of a...
Lord Sugar put 18 candidates through their paces for a chance to win £250,000 investment for their business
Lord Sugar will be joined by business heavyweights Baroness Karren Brady and Claude Littner as the aspiring entrepreneurs embark on the gruelling 12-week selection process that will pit them against one another.
Returning to Wednesdays this year, the 13th series of the show...
“There are 3,000 one-sided mails which either I have sent to myself or the woman in question has sent to me. The Cyber Crime department can prove or disprove either story, in just a few days. Towards that purpose, I have surrendered all my devices including laptops/phones which are still lying with the Cyber Cell, but Kangana has refused...
Hundreds of people joined together in a dynamic show of solidarity at a peace demo held outside Leeds Art Gallery in support of the Rohingya Muslim victims.
In what was billed as ‘Yorkshire Peace Demonstration For Burma’, an array of speakers from different community groups and organisations, including council officials, spoke passionately about the plight of the Rohingya Muslims.
Surviving victims...
A peaceful march was observed by hundreds of people on Sunday 1st October at the Hussainia Islamic Mission, All Saints Road in Bradford to mark the 10th day of Muharram.
Security was in place and the march was well observed and maintained by all involved to ensure that everything ran smoothly.
The walk was in remembrance of the tragic killing of...
Those at risk from the flu across the Yorkshire district are being asked to stay well this winter by getting their flu vaccination to protect themselves, and loved ones, this winter.
This year’s flu season has now started and those invited to get a flu vaccination, by their GP or employer, are being urged to take up the offer to...
DIWALI AT TRAFALGAR SQUARE
Event: Diwali Festival
Date: Sunday 15 October 2017
Times: 1pm – 7pm
Venue: Trafalgar Square, London
Entry: Free, all welcome
Information: www.london.gov.uk/diwali
Twitter: @LDN_gov / #DiwaliLDN
The Diwali Festival brings together thousands of Hindus, Sikhs and Jains with people from other communities in celebration of the ‘festival of lights’
Trafalgar Square will be transformed with a colourful and vibrant mix of music,...
Care Unique, an independent care agency based in Bradford, have been supplying the people of Bradford, Leeds and Halifax for over a decade with care and support for the adult Asian community while also catering for the wider community also.
Set up in 2006 by Nina Kaur, a passionate care worker from Bradford, Nina brought the experience of being a...
Local Bradford school boy set to follow his dream and take part in first fight
14-year-old local schoolboy Zahir Akram is set to follow his dream and take part in his first amateur boxing fight in Bradford on Friday.
The Bradford boy wonder has been fighting for two and a half years, and has been training very hard to...
A BBC report reveals that it pays male staff an average ten per cent more than female, and promises to ban same-sex interview panels to get to grips with a lack of women in senior roles.
Earlier this year, comedian and actor Sir Lenny Henry told MPs that media watchdog OfCom was practising "fake diversity" with its targets.
He said: "Ofcom...
A Warrington fast food takeaway boss, who lied about his shop’s takings as part of a £179,000 tax fraud, has been jailed.
Mehmet Tekagac, 43, of Viscount Road, Padgate, claimed he made around £9,000 a year from the Top Grill Kebab and Pizza House on Warrington Road, Penketh, between January 2012 and October 2015.
But HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) investigators...
Home Secretary announces raft of public protection measures
Home Secretary Amber Rudd announced the Government’s new £600,000 investment in a ground-breaking technology project that will remove indecent images of children from the internet at an unprecedented rate.
Alongside this, Ms Rudd also announced the impending consultation on cracking down on the prevalence and use of offensive and dangerous weapons.
The...
A luxury car dealer, who built a property empire with profits from a VAT scam involving Lamborghinis, Porsches and Mercedes, must repay £2 million.
Sarju Popat, 51, from London, was jailed for five-and-a-half years for fraudulently claiming back millions of pounds of tax on car sales between 2009 and 2011 after an investigation by tax bosses.
Popat has now been ordered...
Candlelighters are excited to announce that their Cottage Campaign has been given a huge helping hand by The Kentown Wizard Foundation.
The Cottage Campaign to raise half a million pounds was launched in May this year by the Lord Mayor of Leeds and will fund the renovation of a cottage, just a stone’s throw away from Leeds Children’s Hospital.
The...
The ringleader of a gang, who laundered more than £107m of underworld cash through their London bureaux de change, has been stripped of property in the UK, France, Sri Lanka and India to repay his criminal income.
Ramanathan Thayaparan, 45, was jailed for nine years in May 2014 after an investigation by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) revealed organised crime...
The petrol station owner benefited by £247,590.57 from the fraud and ordered the confiscation of his current assets
A Blackburn petrol station owner, who was jailed for selling hundreds of thousands of litres of illegal diesel to unsuspecting motorists, has been ordered to repay £133,660 in stolen taxes.
Nawaz Jan Virmani, 54, was caught by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC)...
Manchester’s cultural institutions has welcomed leading South Asian and British artists of South Asian decent in a celebration of shared heritage and historic connections through a series of exhibitions and performances across the city.
Marking the 70th anniversary of the creation of India, Pakistan and later Bangladesh, eight exhibitions will present both new and seminal works, while inviting audiences...
The young Muslim schoolboy, 15, who was stabbed in the face, head and neck multiple times near a mosque in Small Heath, Birmingham, is still fighting for his life.
Meanwhile, an unemployed 29-year-old man who was arrested within 10-hours of the incident, has been charged with the attempted murder for the attack.
The young victim, who has been named as Syed...
