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Pays Tribute to Victims of Honour Crimes In a joint campaign with Cosmopolitan Magazine, charity Karma Nirva has announced that the 14th July is to become a "Day of Memory" for victims of honour based violence. The day shows special...

American News Channel Ridiculed After Labelling Birmingham “Muslim-Only City” American terrorism investigator Steven Emerson has apologised after mistakenly calling Birmingham a “Muslim only city” where “non-Muslims could not go”. He claimed “Muslim religious police” beat “anyone who doesn't dress according...

Charity Shows the Importance of Role Models Over 100 Mosaic mentors and supporters were joined by Dr Zafar Iqbal, the first team doctor at Liverpool Football Club and Imran Hakim, entrepreneur and founder of iTeddy to celebrate the region’s mentoring...

Nursery Staff to Report Children at Risk of Becoming Terrorists In keeping with their new anti-terrorism strategy the Home Office have instructed nursery staff to report toddlers harbouring terrorist views. However many have criticised the plans as unnecessarily extreme and...

Dr Na’eem Given Prestigious Award  A London based doctor has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Point of Light Award for a dedicated service in the medical industry. The Points of Light award recognises outstanding individuals - people who are making...

Wealth of Asian Names on Queen’s New Year List The New Year Honours list has been released featuring the best from all sectors of the Asian community. 2015 will now welcome a host of new knights, dames, MBEs and OBEs...

New Year’s Honours List Needs to Represent Increasingly Diverse Community Head of the civil service Sir Bob Kerslake has overseen the birthday and New Year honours list that are drawn up and approved by the Queen. He has recently stated...

Female Cancer Sufferer who Verbally Abused Taxi Driver is Sentenced A woman with her Bull Terrier intimidated a taxi driver, Mohammed Khan, and his sister, attempted to assault them with the dog’s chain and unleashed a spate of racial abuse...

Sajid Javid Backs Media Diversity but Opposes Minimum Targets Culture Secretary Sajid Javid praised BBC director-general Tony Hall’s wishes to increase black, minority and ethnic individuals on television, however discouraged tokenism. Javid went on to say, “I wish it was...

A British Journalist Urges Release of Men Arrested for Terror Charges in Egypt Al-Jazeera journalist Sue Turton protested for her fellow imprisoned journalists Peter Greste, Baher Mohammed and Mohammed Fahmy outside the Egyptian embassy in London. Turton was with colleagues...