The family of Kyle Sekhon, a young Chelsea FC supporter who recently died by suicide in the London Underground, launched a Twitter campaign to give a minute’s applause during the 23rd minute at the football team’s next match against Wolves on 7 May. The young man, who has been described as “an all-round good guy” by […]
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A Northern Irish grandmother, who has been on death row in Indonesia for a decade, has been spending time knitting in prison. Lindsay Sandiford had separated from her husband and moved to India from the UK in 2012. From there, the 65-year-old travelled to Indonesia in 2013, trying to smuggle cocaine worth £1.6 million. She was arrested and
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(L-R): Shincy, Sonja, Yafika and Vidya-the first four nurses welcomed at NHS Dumfries and Galloway NHS Scotland has taken a big step in its efforts to increase healthcare staff in the hospitals across the country, with NHS Dumfries and Galloway welcoming the first group of international staff. This includes 191 qualified international nurses, many of
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A Scottish Sikh man, who was arrested by Indian authorities in 2017 for alleged terror offences, has been waiting to stand trial for about five years now. He was arrested while he was in Punjab celebrating his wedding. It was announced by the United Nation’s Working Group on Arbitrary Detention that Jagtar Singh Johal’s arrest
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Leading Scottish Public Health Expert and Professor of Global Public Health, Devi Sridhar, has come forward to reveal an incident that took place in the summer of last year. A member of the Scottish government’s Coronavirus Advisory Board mentioned that she received a post containing white powder and a used mask with the words “I
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North Lanarkshire general practitioner Dr Krishna Singh has been found guilty of 54 sex offence charges against his female patients which took place between February 1983 and May 2018. The doctor, who was awarded an MBE by the UK government in 2013, was involved in multiple sexual assaults which mostly took place at medical practices
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65-year-old Yasmeen Kausar has allegedly got her husband killed in Pakistan with the help of two men who were hired to do the job for her. Kausar, who is from Bradford, moved to Leeds with her husband, Mohammad Farooq, 65, after they got married. Police say that Farooq was strangled in a town near Rawalpindi,
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Geetanjali Shree has become the first Indian winner of the International Booker Prize, a literary award ceremony hosted in London on Thursday, for her novel Tomb of Sand. She was chosen as the winner out of a total of six finalists, which included Polish Nobel literature laureate Olga Tokarczuk, Claudia Piñeiro of Argentina and South
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Regarded as one of Punjab’s biggest popstars, Shubhdeep Singh Sidhu, popularly known as Sidhu Moose Wala, was murdered in broad daylight on Sunday evening at the age of 28, leaving many fans in the UK devastated Moose Wala was shot dead by a group of unknown men while he was in his car and travelling in Mansa
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In a series of achievements by many British Asian mountain climbers in recent years, Akke Rehman’s expedition has also been one that has made history. Rehman is said to be the first British Muslim to reach the Everest summit, an expedition that started during the holy month of Ramadan which meant that he had been
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