In Conversation: SRK’s Om Shanti Om Bodyguard
Simon Hewitt on swapping Melbourne for MumbaiAs Farah Khan's 'Om Shanti Om' releases on DVD, complete with a 16-page booklet that gives an insight into the cast and crew of the movie, I caught up with one of the...
All Aboard for Change
FA plans to get more Asians into footballFOR the past decade the issue of Asian under-representation within British football has been a contentious topic. When Jas Bains published the ironically titled ‘Asians Can’t Play Football’ in 1995 it kick started...
Dr Phil Dyer talks about Miscarriages
Monthly Health with Heartlands HospitalMy wife has had three miscarriages in a row. What’s causing it?
One in four pregnancies ends in miscarriage. Although this can be a very traumatic situation to deal with at the time, the majority of...
Ferzanna Riley – Fighting Honour
Muslim author backs fight against honour crimesWHEN Ferzanna Riley decided to publish her harrowing personal story last year little did she know much of an influence it would have. 'Unbroken Spirit' - a powerful account of a life tainted...
Campaign to save Southall Black Sisters
A NUMBER of women demonstrated outside the headquarters of Ealing Council in protest at their decision to cut vital funding for one of the country's most influential Asian refuges.
Supporters of Southall Black Sisters demonstrated outside the council's headquarters...
Documentary makers to sue police and CPS
THE PRODUCTION team behind the controversial Channel 4 documentary ‘Undercover Mosque’ have revealed they are to sue West Midlands Police and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) for libel.
The Dispatches programme ‘Undercover Mosque’, which was broadcast in January 2007,...
‘Britney is having my child’
Brummie Adnan claims star is pregnantBRUMMIE photographer Adnan Ghalib is back in the news and claiming popstar Britney Spears is pregnant with his child.
The Small Heath-born photographer told press the star has “a baby Brummie in her tummy”,...
Be a part of the Football Revolution
The Footballer with Sunny SahotaWelcome back to the BCFA’s column which outlines the proactive work that we are carrying out in The West Midlands and Warwickshire to increase the number of Asians into the game and highlight the Asian...
Why we must ban forced marriages
David Cameron on outlawing Forced MarriagesIN a speech in Bradford Tory Leader David Cameron said his party would consider making forced marriages a criminal offence. Here’s what he had to say.
“A FEW months ago, in a speech about rape I...
Newspapers re-print controversial Muhammad cartoon
A NUMBER of Danish newspapers have reprinted cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad which caused Muslim outrage over two years ago.
The caricatures, which spurred deadly protests in the Muslim world in 2005, were reprinted just hours after the police...
Pakistan duo pulled up on central contract remarks
Akhtar and Kaneria asked to explain commentsPAKISTAN bowlers Shoaib Akhtar and Danish Kaneria have been pulled up over remarks they made in the media over the Pakistan Cricket Boards allocation of central contracts.
Both players were notable casualties when...
Crimewatch appeal in Shafilea Murder
THE MURDER of teenager Shafilea Ahmed will feature on BBC’s Crimewatch next week.
The decomposed body of the 17-year-old was found in Sedgwick, Cumbria by the River Kent five months after she went missing from her home in Warrington....
