Attorney General Apologises for “Offensive” Remarks

 

The Attorney General has apologised for ‘causing offence’ after a remark he made aimed at the Pakistani community.

 

In an interview with The Daily Telegraph, Conservative Dominic Grieve said, “corruption was endemic in some ethnic minority communities” and that the problem was not restricted to “any one community but was mainly referring to Pakistanis.”

 

Leading political figures, both from the Tories and its opponents have described the remarks as “divisive.” In a statement issued by the MP for Beaconsfield, he said, “I am very clear that integration between ethnic communities in the United Kingdom has worked well and delivered great benefits

Birmingham Doctor Charged for Assault on Patient

A Birmingham doctor has been charged with sexually assaulting a female patient at a private hospital in the city.

Mr Nafees Hamid, from Moseley, is accused of assaulting a woman at the Priory Hospital, Edgbaston, in June this year.

The 50-year-old neurosurgeon, who is employed by University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, was charged by police yesterday (19 November) and bailed with strict conditions to appear before magistrates in Birmingham on 3 December.

Officers from West Midlands Police's Public Protection Unit arrested the man following an allegation from a patient of inappropriate behaviour during an examination.

Detective Inspector Ian Ingram,

UK Asian music artists organise a street party for Gaurav

Two-year-old Gaurav Bains, has united the nation with a campaign to find him a stem cell donor, as local communities come together to hold recruitment events up and down the country.

Gaurav, who lives in Tipton is a cute and lively two year old boy like most children his age however, his parents Gurprit and Sunny Bains have to take extra care because he has a rare condition called Monosomy 7, a disease which suppresses his immune system. This means that any of the usual childhood coughs and sneezes are a serious issue for him, resulting in a hospital stay and intravenous antibiotics, which leave him very debilitated. Gaurav urgently needs a bone marrow transplant because without one, he will develop aggressive leukaemia. 

It’s not just the public who have been touched by the story, Asian celebrities and singers have been supporting the appeal and Birmingham Bhangra artist Foji Gill has gone that one step further and organised a street party in the heart of Birmingham’s multi-cultural

Noor Ali - World Foods Manager Interview

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What’s the big plan for world foods? The potential?

I want to establish Morrisons as being famous providing the most diverse offering; tailored to communities across the UK. My goal is to establish it as being renowned as the most outstanding UK retailer amongst ethnic shoppers. There is undoubtedly huge potential amongst this category; nearly a fifth of the UK population comes from an ethnic background, spending £25bn on groceries, including £1bn on World Foods.Not only this, but as an example, recent research suggests that Halal meat accounts for up to 15% of meat sales in the UK. This year the Halal food festival in London’s Excel Centre drew 20,000 paying visitors, it just proves that the demand is there. The potential is huge.

What makes the Morrisons offer unique?

We have drawn on the latest available customer data to review our customers’ needs on a store-by-store basis and re-planned over 200 stores to ensure the right ranges were available for customers in the right locations. 

We’ve doubled the size of the World Foods team and brought in industry experts such as Paul

Missing Girl might be in Birmingham

Police are seeking help from the public in locating a 16 year old.

 

Hull girl, Khadija Lamghafri who was reported missing to police last week.

 

Khadija is reported to have gone missing from her home address in Appleton Road, Hull on the 21 October 2013 and police and her family are growing concerned for her welfare.

 

Khadija is described as 5ft 9ins tall with very long wavy brown hair and is said to be of a large build.  It is not known what clothing Khadija was wearing when she left home.

 

A photograph is enclosed of Khadija who has been reported

Asian Britain: A Photographic History – Susheila Nasta

Few attempts have been made to create a visual archive that maps the Asian contribution to today’s culturally diverse Britain. In Asian Britain, published by The Westbourne Press on Monday, 7 October 2013, critic, broadcaster, and literary activist, Susheila Nasta, gathers together striking, and fascinating images narrating the formation of our British Asian cultural history, many of them drawn from the British Library’s collections.

 

From the first trade conducted between Britain and South Asia along the Silk Route to the adoption of Chicken Tikka Masala as a national dish, the ongoing mutual cultural exchanges continue to flourish today. This extraordinary photographic history draws upon culture, film, music, the military, business, the suffragette movement, as well as tracing

UK's £3.6 billion Curry Industry to be celebrated at Curry Awards

The UK’s favourite cuisine will once again be celebrated at the coveted, ninth annual British Curry Awards on Monday 25th November 2013. The industry at large, foodies, celebrities, MP’s and dignitaries will collectively pay homage to the nation’s finest curry restaurants at undisputedly the most lauded event of the UK hospitality sector amid the fitting grandiose of Battersea Evolution, London.

 

The UK curry industry boasts 10,000 restaurants and 80,000 employees, and contributes a staggering £3.6billion annually to the economy. As well as being a lucrative mainstay of the economy, the industry has embedded itself in the social, cultural and culinary fabric of the UK, with approximately 25million curries being consumed each week. As a result, British Curry Awards has become a key fixture on the UK social calendar, celebrating the achievements of the nation’s most popular culinary genre. In speaking previously at British Curry Awards about the gastronomical phenomenon that is the British

Man Pleads Guilty to Murdering Sartaj Aziz

A Brierley Hill man has pleaded guilty to manslaughter at Wolverhampton Crown Court today (7 Nov) after a collision in Quarry Bank claimed the life of a young man.

 

Self-employed 27-year-old Garret Fitzpatrick of Bank Street in Brierley Hill, has been remanded in custody for sentencing on 18 December for the death of 26-year-old Sartaj Aziz (pictured), who died on Tuesday 20 August in a collision with a lorry on Thorns Road.

 

After his death Sartaj’s mother paid tribute to her son. She said: "Sartaj was 26-years-old. He was highly thought of and well respected, by not only his

Listening windows, CCTV and bobbies help crack crime on the buses

Windows which can "listen" and activate CCTV cameras when they are being attacked may sound like science fiction but this groundbreaking technology has hit the streets of Birmingham.

 

The National Express "Trojan" bus was deployed along the number 6 route in Sparkbrook last night (Tuesday 5 November) in direct response to safety concerns from local people.

 

Microscopic microphones have been embedded into windows to automatically detect when they are being vandalised.

 

Rather than listening to passenger conversations, the microphones are calibrated so that they only activate when they "hear" the sound of scratching, cracking or graffiti being daubed on them.

 

When this is detected, onboard high definition CCTV cameras automatically zoom in on the window to capture the vandal. An alert is also sent to the depot so staff are aware a crime has been committed.

 

The CCTV can also be monitored live in real-time in the control room by officers watching on secure 4G enabled laptops and tablet computers in a following car.

British Asian Singer Navin Kundra Performs For Royals at St James

Award winning British Asian singer, Navin Kundra, was invited to perform for TRH The Prince Of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall with distinguished guests last week at their South Asia Pre-Tour Reception held at St James’s Palace. 

 

 The multi-lingual singer, who was awarded ‘2013 Entertainer of the Year’ at the Houses of Parliament, said “It’s a real honour to be invited to perform for the royals in such a monumental Palace – this is definitely one of the biggest highlights of my career so far”.  Navin added, “I knew that expectations would be extremely high as Kylie Minogue

Media Moguls Announced As ‘MEDIA AGENCY OF THE YEAR’

Leading specialist PR and marketing agency Media Moguls part of The Headline Factory Ltd is proud to have won the title Media Agency of the Year at the inaugural Asian Media Awards, held last night (31st October) at The Hilton in Manchester, Deansgate.

 

The annual Asian Media Awards are dedicated to rewarding the talent, drive and potential of individuals working within the media industry. The gala ceremony, which will become a regular feature on the annual events calendar, showcases the very best talent working in the Asian and mainstream media within the UK. The awards, which are judged by an esteemed panel of industry experts, also aims to act as a networking platform for individuals working within the industry, to meet with influential figures from organisations in which they are under-represented.

 

Media Moguls was founded by director Anjna Raheja in1994, who has, over the

Whizzkid Suleman In New BBC Series

A young entrepreneur is set to star in a new TV series which sends business whizz kids into struggling firms to help save them.

 

Suleman Sacranie, whose business MadaboutDeals is based at De Montfort University’s Innovation Centre, Leicester, is one of the stars of the new BBC programme Million Dollar Intern. 

 

The series, which started last month on BBC Worldwide, features six young successful business people who are sent undercover into a variety of companies facing a bleak future.

 

Posing as ‘interns’ in the companies, they were given just five days to get to assess the business and understand what the problems are – then two days to come up with and implement ideas to save them. Suleman’s

Beauty Therapy Students Come First in World Skills UK Nail Art

Two students at South and City College Birmingham have fought off hundreds of competitors to nail themselves a place in the World Skills finals.

 

The two beauty therapy students took part in the regional World Skills UK Nail Art Advanced Competition in June, competing against other students from across the region.

 

Student Hena Mohammed who came first in the West Midlands regional competition and Kerry Wilkes who came second will be competing against some of the UK’s most highly skilled individuals to see who will be crowned ‘best of the best’ in the national heats at the NEC in

A Birmingham Man Guilty of Murdering His Wife in Honor Killing

A Birmingham man has been found guilty of murdering his wife in an apparent honour killing.

 

Muhammad Riaz Inayat, 56, set fire deliberately to his house in a bid to stop his daughter from leaving for Dubai to marry her boyfriend. 

 

Mr Inayat of Cateswell Road, Sparkhill, set fire to his house on April 17th while his wife, Naika, his three daughters and a family friend slept upstairs. 

 

Birmingham Crown Court heard how the defendant had been desperate to stop his daughter from boarding a flight to Dubai that same day; as he believed that it would be dishonouring