Zafar Iqbal (Image by Metropolitan Police) A man who strangled his wife to death in front of their three children has been sentenced to life imprisonment, more than 21 years after the murder. At the Old Bailey on Thursday, 8 December, 62-year-old Zafar Iqbal pleaded guilty to murdering his wife Naziat Zafar in August 2001 […]
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Image by Southampton Toy Appeal The Southampton Sikh Toy Appeal is going to make this year’s Christmas special for numerous children with hundreds of toys. Families, who cannot provide their children with gifts can get them from toy appeal volunteers at the Gurdwara Khalsa Darbar, Southampton’s Sikh Resource Centre in Burgess Road. In the last
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Image by Green Lane Masjid & Community Centre “The devastation left by the floods in Pakistan is still very much raw and the desperation is apparent. The latest estimates place around 2,000 people dead, thousands injured and more than 2 million homes damaged or destroyed. Millions of people remain displaced in make-shift tents, as flood
Image by Asian Image The ‘running man’ of Oldham provided help to school children in raising an amount of £3,500 towards Pakistan flood relief efforts recently. Afruz Miah, who ran from Oldham to London while on a fast during Ramadan, came to be popularly known as the ‘running man’. His daughter studies at St Thomas
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Image by Greater Manchester Police A drug dealer is now behind bars after police raided his property in Longsight and recovered cocaine and cash. Yasir Ali, of Meade Grove, attempted to use his phone after officers burst in and found him alone in the bedroom. The 25-year-old was swiftly arrested when a large amount of
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Image by Rishi Rajpopat LinkedIn account An Indian PhD student at the University of Cambridge received a lot of praises after solving a grammatical problem which had left even the most learned Sanskrit scholars confused since the 5th Century BC. Rishi Rajpopat, 27, from St John’s College successfully decoded a rule taught by “the father
Saqib Bhatti near the location where the tragedy occurred (Image by Josh Sandiford / Birmingham Live) After the Babbs Mill Lake tragedy that claimed the lives of four young boys in Kinghurst, Solihull on 11 December, videos of the incident were released online and left many “mortified”. Meriden MP Saqib Bhatti, whose constituency includes Kinghurst, visited
Image by LeicestershireLive/BirminghamLive After the collapse of their trial, TikTok influencer Mahek Bukhari, her mother Ansreen and four others, who are facing murder charges, have been released from custody pending a retrial which will take place in the new year, BirminghamLive reports. An appeal for the bail of the six defendants was made by their
Image by Family Handout/PA Wire/MyLondon The man who pleaded guilty to murdering Zara Aleena in a frenzied and sexually motivated attack will serve a minimum of 38 years behind bars, Metropolitan Police said in a statement. Jordan McSweeney, 29, of no fixed address, was sentenced at the Old Bailey on Wednesday, 14 December having pleaded guilty
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Yaseen Patel before and after his transformation (Image by UWCB/Ultra White Collar Boxing/YorkshireLive) A man has gone against all odds to prove that anything can be achieved if one dreams big and works towards achieving it. Yaseen Patel from Dewsbury has lost over 15 stone in two years and said that he would be “dead if
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