Winner and female entrepreneur, Shazda Ahmed is awarded the title of Outstanding Young Business Personality, in the Northern Powerhouse.
The prestigious Northern Lights 2017 inaugural award ceremony was designed to celebrate business excellence and collaboration across the North of England, the ceremony honored the companies and individuals who have been instrumental in working together and driving forward plans to help...
Family, friends and strangers are urged to call 999 as soon as they notice any single one of the three key signs of a stroke
Public Health England has released a series of films as part of the national Act FAST campaign, to help raise awareness of the vital role anyone can play when they see someone having a stroke.
Jaswant...
Smokers in Bradford are being targeted by a new campaign to highlight the effectiveness of local Stop Smoking Services.
Cancer Research UK has launched an advertising campaign, aimed at increasing awareness and encouraging people to get help from their local Stop Smoking Service, which give smokers the best chance of giving up for good.
Starting on 13 March, and running across...
Platinum Car Hire expands fleet to include some of UK’s most exclusive luxury brands
A qualified builder from Leeds who’s been in the trade for 13-years has now revved up enough initiative to start his very own supercar hire empire.
Haroon Akhtar, who’s childhood dreams of owning and driving luxury cars such as Lamborghinis, Ferraris, Rolls Royces has been the driving factor...
Asian Express speaks to burger boss Tausif Malik of Mr T’s eatery in Bradford following a once in a lifetime midnight visit from international boxing megastar, Floyd Mayweather
International boxing champion and sporting superstar Floyd Mayweather may have a busy schedule, but that didn’t stop him from taking time out to enjoy pizzas, milkshakes and burgers at Mr T’s gourmet...
Tongues on Fire (TOF) have revealed their exciting programme for this year’s edition of the London Asian Film Festival (LAFF), introducing its all-important theme ‘Memories Beyond Borders’. This year marks 70 years of India’s independence, a notable date in India’s history, along with marking the birth of Pakistan.
Taking place on the 9th March to 19th March 2017, across...
A solicitor who lied about his income to steal more than £60,000 from HM Revenue & Customs has been jailed for 18 months.
Criminal defence specialist Azhar Islam Khan, 45, from North London, failed to declare the shareholder dividend income from his business and rental income he received from two properties in Blackburn and Preston.
An investigation by HMRC revealed that...
A man who committed a string of armed robberies at betting shops in east London has has been jailed following an investigation by officers from the Met's Flying Squad.
Islam Uddin, 32 (14.10.84), of no fixed abode pleaded guilty at the Old Bailey to seven counts of robbery, two counts of attempted robbery and nine counts of possession of a...
The highly anticipated race timings for the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire have been unveiled by Welcome to Yorkshire.
Millions of spectators will line the route for the three-day men’s race and one-day women’s race which run between 28-30 April. The timings have been calculated by anticipating the peloton’s average speed but are subject to change depending on variables such as...
Star Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Angela Lansbury
Directors: Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise
Cert: 12A
Release Date: 17/03/2017
Disney’s animated classic gets a sumptuous live-action reboot with Emma Watson and Dan Stevens in the lead roles.
Belle (Emma Watson) is a bookish young woman and keen inventor who goes in search of her father Maurice (Kevin Kline) when...
The Speaker’s Advisory Committee on Works of Art have published an open call for applications to be the House of Commons’ Artist-in-Residence, tasked with exploring and celebrating the legacy of the 1965, 1968 and 1976 Race Relations Acts.
To develop their understanding of how Parliament reacted to demands for racial equality, the Artist-in-Residence will travel across the United Kingdom, visiting...
multiagency operation on National No Smoking Day has seen West Yorkshire Trading Standards, West Yorkshire Police, HMRC and Wagtail UK tobacco detection dogs seizing over 54,000 illicit cigarettes and more than 78.5KG of illegal hand rolling tobacco worth greater £21,000 off the streets of West Yorkshire.
Operation Neutral was planned to coincide with National No Smoking Day on 8th March...
When it comes to Indian restaurants, we are spoilt for choice these days. With so many fantastic offerings just a stone’s throw away (or even closer to home with apps like Just Eat and Deliveroo), it is important for restaurants to stand out with their particular brand of Asian cuisine. Step up Abdul’s, who currently boast three restaurants in...
It may have been extremely windy and absolutely bucketing down with rain in Bradford, but even the ridiculously inclement weather couldn’t deter around six hundred plucky fans turning out for a special four-bout dinner show.
At the Connaught Rooms, headlined by a ten round non-championship International contest between local hero, two division World Champion Tasif Khan, and top class opponent,...
Bradford College student Harris Akbar is celebrating after being named Bradford’s Young Male Sportsperson of the Year – for the second successive year.
The boxer, who studies sport and trains at the Bradford Police and College Boxing Academy at the college’s Trinity Green campus, was hailed as one the district’s Young Achievers at the Bradford Sports Awards 2017 that was...
Yorkshire boxer Ismail Khan is the first boxer from the region to win the English title belt outright, by defending it three times.
His final defence took place on 18th February at the Magna Centre in Rotherham, seeing Ismail win the vacant 52kg English title, beating Muzi Fuyana from Middlesbrough.
It was a thrilling bout, with both young men fighting at...
Most of us waste time being in the past or worrying about what the future would bring with itself, so much so, that we fail to appreciate what is in the present.
Mindfulness is any human’s ability to be fully aware about their present. ‘Why are we here?’, ‘What are we doing?’ and ‘Why are we doing it?’ are...
A popular Leeds restaurant has finally reopened, fourteen long months after being destroyed by flooding.
The Sheesh Mahal in Kirkstall Road restaurant was open and full of customers when the water started creeping in at 5:30pm on Boxing Day 2015. Owner Azram Chaudhry’s recollection of the moment it started is still so fresh in his mind, he can still remember...
“I’ve lost my younger brother”
Mourners gathered in the hundreds at Jamiyat Tabligh-ul-Islam in Victor Street, Bradford for the heart-breaking funeral of Shumas Fakeer, a 22-year-old who died in a fatal car crash.
22-year-old Shumas, a law graduate with a bright future ahead of him, tragically passed away in a horrifying car accident last month. He was the passenger.
Hundreds of people...
