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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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Sexual predator jailed for seven years after sharing indecent content online

Picture by iStock Towhid Choudhury, a resident of Maitland Park Road, Camden, has been jailed for seven years for producing and sharing indecent images of children, as well as planning to sexually abuse a child with others. Choudhury was caught by the Metropolitan Police in his home with various devices in which he stored pornographic

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Alarming figures show many Bradford children found carrying knives

Picture by Diverse Images/Getty Images/Universal Images Group In an appalling report under a Freedom of Information Request sent to the West Yorkshire Police by youth worker Sharat Hussain, it has been revealed that a large number of children as young as 11 years old have been caught carrying knives. A total of 48 people between

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South Asian charity founder honoured in Queen’s Birthday Honours list

Founder of Arts 2 Heal, Banu Adam, from Blackburn has been chosen to receive the prestigious British Empire Medal in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list. Adam, who founded the charity in 2016, set it up to help black and ethnic minority communities to tackle mental health issues through a variety of activities and insightful discussions.

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Bradford Senior Midwife awarded the British Empire Medal

Rukeya Miah, Deputy Associate Director of Nursing and Senior Midwife at Bradford Royal Infirmary, who has received several accolades and praises for her dedication and work in maternity and healthcare education when the Covid-19 pandemic had taken the world by a storm, received pleasantly shocking news recently. Ahead of the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations, the 51-year-old senior

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