Image by Peter Byrne/PA George Galloway has won the Rochdale by-election after a controversial and chaotic campaign. Mr Galloway’s campaign team claimed early on in the night that the former Labour and Respect MP would win “comfortably”, and so it proved. The Workers Party of Great Britain leader received just fewer than 40% of the […]
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Image by Mahmud Hossain Opu/AP A massive blaze in a six-storey shopping mall in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens. The fire, which struck Green Cozy Cottage Shopping Mall late on Thursday, started in a biryani restaurant on the first floor, with 13 units of firefighters battling for
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Image by Nq The first glimpses have been released of some of the characters from the upcoming \’Heeramandi: The Diamond Bazaar\’ set to air on Netflix. Sanjay Leela Bhansali is set to unveil his 14-year passion project in collaboration with the streaming giant, to global audiences. Set in pre-independent India, the series is described as \’epic
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Image by Aagrah The Aagrah Midpoint Suite, a long running Bradford restaurant is celebrating completing the latest phase of its huge refit. The restaurant underwent a significant upgrade, worth more than £200,000 back in December 2022. It was the banqueting suite which underwent the first phase of the makeover at the restaurant. Phase two has
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Image by Abid Hussain/Al Jazeera Pakistani journalist and video blogger Asad Ali Toor (pictured above) was arrested by federal authorities on Monday on charges of orchestrating a malicious campaign against the state and its officials, with the “objective to coerce, intimidate, and incite violence” against them through his social media platforms. The Federal Investigation Agency
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Image by PA Organisers of pro-Palestine marches have said they will continue to protest in support of an immediate ceasefire in the face of the Home Secretary’s criticisms of regular demonstrations. The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) pushed back against James Cleverly, who said protesters had “made their point” and questioned whether holding regular marches “adds
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Image by Reuters Three men have been charged with planning an attack on an Islamic education centre with a gun made using a 3D printer. Brogan Stewart and Marco Pitzettu, both 24, along with Christopher Ringrose, 33, appeared in court via video link. No pleas were indicated and they were remanded in custody ahead of
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Image by Amit Dave/Reuters India batters Shubman Gill and Dhruv Jurel put together a 72-run partnership as India beat England by five wickets in the fourth Test match in Ranchi and took an unassailable 3-1 lead in the five-match series. England won the first Test of the series in Hyderabad, but India bounced back to
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Image by Jacob King/PA Rishi Sunak has said MP Lee Anderson’s remarks that sparked an Islamophobia row “weren’t acceptable, they were wrong”, as he denied the Conservative Party has Islamophobic tendencies. The Prime Minister addressed the row on Monday after facing growing calls to speak out about the former Tory deputy chairman’s remarks. Mr Anderson
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Image by iStock Car insurance quotes were a third more expensive in some areas of England with the biggest minority ethnicity populations. Thousands of quotes based on identical driver information from different addresses were collected by BBC Verify and it was found that areas with a high number of people from ethnic minorities saw higher
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