Film highlights key cancer symptoms
As part of Public Health England’s latest ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ campaign, Black and Asian cancer survivors, alongside doctors, feature in a new film which aims to increase awareness of the key symptom for both bladder and kidney cancers – blood in urine.
Around 17,450 people in England are diagnosed with either bladder or kidney...
£3.3M site saved from closure
A stunning and well-established Leeds restaurant, which looked doomed to close its doors following a host of mismanagements, has been rescued at the eleventh hour thanks to one of Yorkshire’s favourite food families.
Rab Nawaz, director of the iconic Bradford food-connoisseurs ‘Mumtaz’, stepped in to reclaim the failing ‘Chandelier’ Kashmiri establishment, on Clarence Dock, which...
Yorkshire V Cancer
Yorkshire Cancer Research has teamed up with the Quaid-e-Azam Cricket League to raise awareness of cancer among Yorkshire’s Asian community.
Staff and volunteers from the charity will attend events throughout the summer to help people understand the signs and symptoms of the disease and encourage them to attend screening appointments.
The league will also hold a special ‘Yorkshire V...
Qur’an comes to Leeds!
Taken from an 800-year-old copy of the Qur’an, two beautiful and historic pages have been mounted and displayed in a completely new way at Leeds City Museum’s Voices of Asia gallery.
The pages come from a 13th Century copy of the text and were originally purchased in 1951 from art collector Frank Savery.
Their age and origin...
Bradford College is home to two of the city’s most creative schools - Bradford School of Art and The Northern School of Creative Industries. Situated in a listed Victorian building with inspiring architecture inside and out, blended with modern yet characterful gallery spaces, the two schools are perfect for students who have that creative edge.
Having recently undergone a refurbishment,...
Kirkstall waxing wonder-woman is the best in the business
When you’ve got a super smooth body, you always feel on top of the world - and no-one knows how to get your skin silkier than Ruth Van Straten at MaximumWax.
45-year-old Ruth is a waxing wonder-woman whose approachable personality and beauty expertise has seen her build up a winning business and...
Here for all your Family and Immigration Law needs
It is not only the list of happy clients that is growing at Northone Solicitors in 2016, but also the number of legal experts now providing their expertise from the Roundhay Road establishment.
The business is positively blooming.
Covering almost every area of law, the firm have recently invested in their family...
Chandeliers, magnificent mehndi stages and a sprinkling of magic
Finding the right wedding venue is a task every bride and groom must do to ensure they have the perfect setting to create monumental memories that will last a lifetime.
In Dewsbury there is no place more magical than The Grand Banqueting Suite.
Ashiq Hussain’s family-run business dazzles from the roadside thanks to...
Adil Rashid discusses World Twenty20 during latest academy masterclass
He is one of the top spin bowlers in the country and has just jetted off to India to compete in the World Twenty20 tournament.
Now, as he prepares to make an impact on the world stage, Adil Rashid catches up with the Asian Express newspaper to discuss all things cricket, from...
Music is ‘instrumental’ to school’s success
Children at a Bradford primary school are hitting all the right notes across the curriculum, as the school continues to make progress in almost every area...and music is behind the trend.
Feversham Primary, on Harewood Street, has invested heavily in its music department in the past couple of years, giving children greater access to instruments...
Local MP Kris Hopkins led a small team of local volunteers in a clean-up of Devonshire Park in Keighley on Saturday morning, one of numerous ‘Clean for The Queen’ tidy-up events taking place across the country last weekend.
More than a million people are thought to have been out and about clearing up the places where they live to help...
Bradford’s Community Club dream
One of West Yorkshire’s most historic football clubs is calling on the city’s fans to get behind non-league teams as they prepare to operate as a community setup from next season.
Bradford Park Avenue, who currently play in the sixth tier of England’s football league will no longer be privately owned after the current campaign concludes.
Instead,...
A 10k run from Bradford to Halifax, organised by a local fundraiser with a big heart, marked its third year of success, with a record number of runners.
In 2014, runners raised £2,000, in 2015 it was £7,000 and this year the team have almost topped this considerable target.
Set up two years ago by 32-year-old Khalifa Mughal from Halifax, the...
Rohit’s ready
On 15th March 2016, the eyes of the cricketing world will focus in on the New VCA Stadium as India take to the field against New Zealand to kick off the ICC 2016 World Twenty20 tournament.
In front of an expectant home crowd, India will look to win the highly sought after trophy for the first time since the...
More than 1,000 mourners have turned out to pay their respects to a much-loved businessman from Moortown who died earlier this month.
Father-of-two, Rashpal Singh Bansal, was just 40-years-old when he was taken to St James’s Hospital on the morning of Friday 5th February after suddenly suffering suspected heart failure.
Despite attempts to revive Mr Bansal, he was later pronounced dead...
Help people in Pakistan find employment with Empowering Communities
Since 2014, Empowering Communities has been working around the clock to transform impoverished communities from their destitute states into a self-sustaining, progressive stage of their lives.
In order for poverty stricken people to begin to make positive and lasting changes, we have to address the underlying issues which cause such terrible issues...
Barely road-legal Porsche 911 GT3 RS gives a searing sonic assault
Porsche’s ‘regular’ GT3 is already a very special piece of engineering, with rear-wheel steering, PDK-only gearbox, trick suspension and almost 470bhp from the 3.8-litre flat six engine. So how does the RS compete?
Well the RS is wider than a regular GT3; it uses the Turbo bodyshell and those...
Thrilling BMW M2 brings M car thrills by undercutting the M3 by over £12,000
Controlled aggression is the name of the game when it comes to BMW M cars and the M2, which has had a fair bit of hype, certainly doesn’t fall short in delivering ultimate performance with looks to kill.
Its extrovert design further underscores the car’s highly dynamic...
‘Help me help my Mum’
A college student from Bradford, who was forced to borrow tens of thousands of pounds to pay for his mother’s medical bills, says he is in urgent need of support to pay off his family’s debts.
Twenty-year-old Mohammed Yeasin was loaned money from friends, family and acquaintances in 2014 after his mother, Mahfuza Khatun, was paralysed...
Soccer success at seventeen
A sporty teen from Dewsbury took her first step up the football coaching ladder last week as she earned her first official FA grading.
Three months ago, 17-year-old Ammarah Pandor, from Dewsbury, started volunteering with Engage Dewsbury - a voluntary community project set up to tackle radicalisation.
As part of her work, the young volunteer coached girls in...
