Police station arson attacker jailed
A 28-year-old man who threw two petrol bombs into a Leicestershire police station earlier this year has been jailed for 10 years.
Mohammed Atif Kamal, was jailed at Leicester Crown Court after pleading guilty to the attack on the Beaumont...
Mahmood quits in Blair crisis
Midland MP Khalid Mahmood sensationally quit the government today in protest at Tony Blair’s refusal to set a date for his resignation.
The MP for Birmingham Perry Barr, who was regarded as a Blair loyalist, was thought to have been...
Husband murdered wife with baseball bat
A Birmingham student murdered his wife with a baseball bat in a “planned and premeditated” attack, a jury has heard.
Anurag Johri, a PhD student at the University of Central England (UCE), bludgeoned his wife to death with a baseball...
Father charged with murder
36-year-old Rahan Arshad has appeared in court charged with the murder of his wife and three children.
Mr Arshad was remanded in custody by Stockport magistrates to appear at Manchester Crown Court on 11 September.
He was arrested by police...
PM accused of creating ‘negative’ Muslim images
THE UK'S first Muslim Miss England has hit out at Prime Minister Tony Blair accusing him of creating a negative image of Islam following the 7/7 London bombings.
19-year-old Hammasa Kohistani said Mr Blair was guilty of fuelling hostility towards...
Hundreds turn out in memory of Ricky Bhalla
A FUNDRAISING fun day in memory of a Midlands firefighter who died in 2003 from a brain tumour has raised over £7,000.
Ricky Bhalla, from Stirchley, Birmingham, died in July 2003. The event at the Tally Ho Police Training Centre,...
Former Gandhi tea-boy meets Lord Attenborough
WHEN Dipak Joshi bent upon his knees and paid homage to Lord Attenborough at the University of Leicester- it was a dream come true.
For the former teaboy on the sets of Gandhi was able to renew acquaintance with...
Midlands to remember Pak Quake Victims
AS THE one-year anniversary of the Pakistan earthquake approaches, an exhibition of photographs of the aftermath of the disaster, Nature’s Fury, is set to open in Birmingham.
The photographs have been taken by award-winning Bangladeshi photographer Shahidul Alam; former...
Media giants in Picture storm
FOUR major media organisations face paying damages to a London council worker after wrongly identifying her as a suspect in the alleged terror bomb plot to blow up passenger planes.
ITV News, the Sun, the Daily Mirror and Daily...
British Asian Murder – Eight appear in Court
EIGHT people have appeared in court in India charged with the brutal murder of a Leicester businessman in the Punjab last August.
59-year-old father of two Mohan Singh Biring, was in the Punjab on business in August 2005 when...
