Sunday 8th January saw a spectacular showcase of the latest bridal, occasion wear and couture collections from the top tier of the Indian and Pakistani design spectrum.
The Aashni + Co exhibition at the Dorchester Hotel in London, included a breath-taking exhibition of the best national and internationally renowned designs from industry leaders including Anamika Khanna, Anushree Reddy, Elan, Gaurav...
Suiting both purse and palate
Ever since taking their first order in 1965, Ambala’s has been a name synonymous with homemade cooking and flawless service.
Today the business is run by the third generation of the Chowdrey family, still serving up platefuls of fresh samosas and lamb karahi on a daily basis, with fluffy naan breads and crispy poppadoms proving the...
One year ago, Cafe Bell-A-Pizza opened its doors for the first time with the aim of bringing authentic Italian pizza to the heart of Bradford City centre.
With a bustling restaurant every night, five-star reviews on TripAdvisor and the heavenly scent of pizza wafting down Westgate, it is fair to say that year one has been a ‘success’.
Thousands of diners...
White Rose Shopping Centre customers have donated in excess of 5,000 gifts to local charities thanks to the centre’s Giving Tree hosted in December.
So generous are White Rose shoppers that the centre begun distributing gifts to the two chosen charities earlier than planned – an incredible feat benefitting two worthwhile causes, Kids Klub and Yorkshire Children’s Trust.
The...
With top speed of 209-mph the Continental Supersports becomes Bentley’s fastest production
Bentley has just announced its fastest and most powerful production model to date: the new Bentley Continental Supersports.
Generating 700-hp with a top speed of 209 mph (336 km/h) and a 0-60 mph time of 3.4 seconds (0-100 km/h in 3.5 seconds) makes the new Bentley Continental Supersportsthe world’s...
When one resident in Harehills put out a call for help after seeing people suffering in Aleppo, he expected some close friends and family to perhaps show some interest.
Instead, what Charlie ‘Chaz’ Mo discovered, was that a whole community wanted to show their support in whatever way they could.
In the space of just 48 hours – from the time...
Downing Street has confirmed that Theresa May will visit Donald Trump in the Springtime, after she sent her two closest allies on a secret trip to meet the President- elect's advisers.
The secret mission reportedly took place after Mr Trump triggered a rift with Downing Street by suggesting Nigel Farage should be Britain’s ambassador to the United States.
Fiona Hill and...
A classroom volunteer, who for over 15 years has given up her own time to help children in Bradford learn how to read, has been named on the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List.
Habidah Glass is one of the region’s few recipients to receive a British Empire Medal for her services to education.
As well as volunteering in Bradford’s Clayton Village...
A former trainee on an innovative Leeds City Council heritage and construction skills programme has claimed a prestigious industry prize.
After finishing second last year in the national finals of the Construction Industry Training Board’s Skillbuild Show while a participant on the council’s ‘Re-Making Leeds’ scheme, Ameha Shewaye Bantiwered, 39, has now gone one step better and been named the...
According to the Children’s Commissioner for England, youngsters who use the internet are not prepared for what they are signing up to online, and are regularly giving personal information away.
Anne Longfield said children did not know how their data was being used due to ‘impenetrable’ terms and conditions.
She said the internet was not designed for children even though they...
Official statistics suggest that around 400,000 pensioners across the UK suffer from loneliness at Christmas.
With that sobering thought in mind, religious groups from across Bradford joined forces on 25th December to serve up a Christmas dinner with all the trimmings to the city’s isolated elderly residents.
From sprouts and carrots to a specially ordered halal turkey, the festive feast was...
We need your help in tracing the whereabouts of 24-year-old Zohaib Latif. Zohaib was last seen on Saturday 31st December 2016 at his home in Sheffield.
He is known to have links to Birmingham and London but could be elsewhere in the country.
Zohaib is described as Asian, approximately 5ft6, of slim build. He has receding dark hair and wears...
A gunman is still at large after shooting 39 people dead on New Year’s Day in Turkey.
Turkish police carried out a dawn raid in a town on the edge of Istanbul this Thursday and detained suspects thought to be linked to the nightclub attack, the state-run Anadolu news agency said.
After receiving intelligence that individuals who may have helped the...
In the case of Fehily v Atkinson which was heard by the High Court at the end of last year, the Court had to consider the issue of whether a person had sufficient mental capacity to enter into a transaction.
In that case, Mrs Fehily was seeking to annul a bankruptcy order which had been made against her following...
Brits across the country welcomed in the New Year in traditional style this past week with fireworks galore lighting up the night sky as Big Ben chimed 12.
It was of course in the capital where the most highly-anticipated display was seen as London, once again, stole the show.
Consisting of some 12,000 individual fireworks, over 110,000 people, from almost...
The current £1 coin is being replaced for the first time in over 30 years because of its vulnerability to sophisticated counterfeiters.
Approximately one in thirty £1 coins in circulation is a fake and that is why the Royal Mint are introducing a new, highly secure coin on 28th March this year, to reduce the costs of counterfeits to businesses...
Calls for calm have been made by Bradford’s community leaders this week following the fatal shooting of Mohammed Yassar Yaqub by West Yorkshire Police.
Mr Yaqub was shot dead after officers cornered his white Audi sports car near the M62 in Huddersfield on Monday 2nd January, at around 6pm.
It has since been confirmed that it was a pre-planned policing...
A documentary made by a Bradford College graduate is providing food for thought on a global scale.
‘Plates’, a film about food waste and food poverty, was shot in West Yorkshire and has recently been shown in South Korea.
Directed and produced by Suman Hanif, who graduated with a first class degree in Film from Bradford College last month, the thought-provoking...
A charity champion has recently returned from his fourth humanitarian aid visit in three years to the Turkish and Syrian border region with the Dewsbury-based SKT Welfare
Nazim Ali raised over £15,000 with which vital humanitarian food packs, blankets and winter kits were purchased and distributed during the Christmas period.
The Bradford-born philanthropist, who visited the war-torn country, said: “I...
New research highlights a ‘broken social mobility promise’ for BME communities
Young people from black and Asian Muslim communities are more likely to be unemployed and face social immobility later in life than working class white boys despite doing better at school, according to new research by the Social Mobility Commission.
The report, which uncovers stark differences in the educational and...
