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Four Indian-origin men convicted of smuggling people to the UK

A trial at the Reading Crown Court has found five men guilty of smuggling 35 Afghans into the UK. All of them received have been sent to prison after two years of investigation. The men built coffin-like hides inside furniture and wardrobes where they locked people in with screws, making it impossible for them to […]

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Unprecedented attack takes place at former mayor of Keighley\’s house

Former mayor of Keighley, Fulzar Ahmed, was victim of a recent attack that took place at his home while three of his children were asleep upstairs. The attack, which took place at 1.30am on May 6, allegedly involved “a gang of four or five men” according to Ahmed, who used bricks to smash several windows

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Three South Asian children racially abused outside Ewood Park Stadium

Image by iStock Blackburn Rovers employee Yasir Sufi, who has organised various events for the club has said that his three children were recently victims of racial abuse outside Ewood Park Stadium, the football club’s official ground. The incident took place on Sunday where a woman harassed the children when they were heading back to

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Headteacher makes controversial statement claiming girls shun Physics n A-levels as they dislike hard maths

Image by The Telegraph Katharine Birbalsingh, Chair of the Department of Education’s Social Mobility Commission and considered to ‘UK’s strictest headteacher’, has claimed that many girls do not take up Physics as they do not like “hard maths”. The Wembley-based Michaela Community School headteacher explained to MPs that girls are not very fond of the subject

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London man tried for smuggling cocaine worth £5.5 million with two others

Image by iStock South Asian origin London man Moynul Hoque was tried along with two other men, Joseph Gray of Draperstown in Northern Ireland and Usman Iqbal, of Bradleigh Avenue in Essex for smuggling drugs worth £5.5 million. The drugs were discovered at the port of Holyhead, on Anglesey, in October 2020, hidden in a lorry full of

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Former Tory MP officially resigns after being convicted of sexual assault

Image by PA Media/BBC Image by PA Media/BBC Wakefield MP Imran Ahmad Khan has officially quit the parliament after being convicted of sexually assaulting an underage boy. He has expressed his intention to quit on April 14 but completed all formalities last week, which means that he still got his salary from UK taxpayers’ money.

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First Muslim female council leader loses her seat after a year in power

The first Muslim female council leader, Arooj Shah, has slammed the Conservatives in Oldham for dehumanising her with the use of a deliberate ‘smear campaign’ which led her to lose her seat. This makes Shah the second Labour leader to lose her seat to Conservative candidate Robert Barnes by a mere 96 votes in the

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