Muslim troops on alert after laptop theft
MUSLIM military personnel and recruits have been put on high alert after it emerged their personal details are included on a Ministry of Defence laptop stolen in Birmingham.
The details of more than 600,000 are stored on the laptop...
Government pressed over Gangotri killing
THE GOVERNMENT is being pressed for answers over the killing of Gangotri – a protected cow who was slaughtered by RSPCA officials at a Hindu temple in Watford last year.
The Hindu Forum of Britain has written to Prime...
‘Stop sweatshop clothes abuse’
BRITISH Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in Delhi for the India-UK summit, today faces pressure to regulate his country’s retailers after new revelations that Indian workers receive poverty wages making clothes for British stores.
The pressure, from the anti-poverty charity War...
Musical message supports Muslim community
MUSLIMS are not terrorists – that is the message behind a new music CD compiled by a Birmingham music supremo.
50-year-old Barry Tomes from Birmingham is not a Muslim, nor does he have any connections with Muslim groups. But...
Anisha to hot up Asian issues on BBC Radio Stoke
A NEW radio show for the Asian community in Stoke is gearing up for its first broadcast next week.
BBC Radio Stoke will air the ‘Anisha’ show on Monday between 7pm and 9pm with one of the stations hottest Asian...
Fears for missing West Bromwich woman
POLICE are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a 21-year-old woman who has gone missing from her home in West Bromwich. Korona Begum has not been seen since December 10, 2007 when she left her home address in...
Man denies policewoman hit-and-run attack
A WEST Bromwich man has denied a hit-and-run attack on a female police officer.
Rashpal Singh, 42, accused of injuring West Midlands Police officer Det Con Catherine Corbett near Heathrow Airport, on 2 November.
Mr Singh, of Gladstone Street,...
Government crackdown on extremist websites
THE GOVERNMENT will target extremist websites that attempt to radicalise young British Muslims as part of a new campaign announced by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith today.
In a speech at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and...
Warning on food import restrictions
PEOPLE returning to the UK from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka are being advised to check the rules and restrictions on bringing back food products.
A new campaign run by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)...
Controversy over PM’s organ donation plans
DOCTORS could remove organs from dead patients without consent if plans announced by Prime Minister Gordon Brown go ahead.
The move, which the government claims will help solve the transplant crisis and save thousands of lives, has been heavily...
