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Roop’s BIG Deal

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Leeds man wins £250,000 on TV show

By Ashley Grint ashley@asianexpress.co.uk

A West Yorkshire resident was given 250,000 reasons to celebrate last week as he

became only the second male in the history of Deal or No Deal to clinch the quarter of a million pound jackpot.

Roop Singh, a storyteller from Leeds, picked up the massive

sum on Wednesday’s edition of the Channel 4 hit show and almost became the first ever contestant to scoop half a million.

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Secret discrimination continues as the government takes an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach

Public anger at ‘hidden’ pensions policy Nearly half of the British public would vote for a political party that plans to unfreeze the pensions of more than half a million of our pensioners based outside of the UK – according to new research.

The OnePoll survey, conducted on behalf of the International Consortium of British Pensioners (ICBP), found that 41 per cent of the 1,000 people polled would vote for a party who stated they would unfreeze pensions for British nationals based abroad.

The issue of frozen pensions refers to current government legislation which sees more than 500,000 British pensioners based abroad faced with their state pension frozen at the same rate as when they left the UK. The vast majority of countries on the government ‘hit list’ for frozen pensions are Commonwealth members,

including Canada, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa, whereas those British pensioners living in the likes of the US and Europe still receive a fully uprated state pension.

Sixty per cent of those polled agreed this was no way to treat British nationals who had contributed to the economy paying both taxes and national insurance - for a number of years.

The Prime Minister has recently focused on pensioners based in the UK with the triplelock pensions promise. He said: “I want people when they reach retirement, to know that they can have dignity and security in their old age.”

The unfortunate consequence for overseas pensioners is that they will become comparatively worse off simply due to their choice of retirement location.

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continues, as the government takes an ‘out of sight, out of mind’ approach and relies on a lack of awareness of the issue.

Furthermore, Pensions Minister Steve Webb had been claiming the cost to fix this discrimination is £700m but revised figures release by the government last month show the figure for 2014/15 to be significantly lower at £580m – representing just 0.7 per cent of the overall pensions budget.

When those polled were informed that the cost to unfreeze pensions would represent just a tiny proportion of the overall pensions budget the majority (59 per cent) agreed that the government should reassess the policy in the upcoming budget.

Sheila Telford, chairman of the International Consortium of British Pensioners, said: “We are pleased to see such strong support. It is clear that the British public are capable of recognising discrimination, even if their political leaders are not.

“We intend to build on this support, and will be taking this message to marginal constituencies for any party that commits to ending this illogical and discriminatory practice.”

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Internet hit EUREKA: Chaz Singh says he had a ‘genius moment’ – this photo taken in Exeter has gone viral after being shared thousands of times on social media

A Sikh councillor has become an internet hit after using a sign to turn a branch of fashion chain ‘Urban Outfitters’ into ‘Turban Outfitters’.

Cheeky Chaz Singh, 41, created this hilarious photo by drawing a letter T on a sheet of paper then holding it up outside the store’s frontage.

The official was out shopping with his wife Sarah Kaur, 42, in Exeter, Devon, when he spotted the comical photo opportunity.

He posted the snap on Twitter where it has been re-tweeted thousands of times.

Mr Singh, who is councillor for Plymouth’s Drake Ward, said: “I just had one of those Eureka moments. a pen and some paper and started “I went into the store, asked for to draw the T out.

“People were chuckling as they walked past. One guy realised what we were doing and said it was just amazing.”

“People were chuckling as they walked past. One guy realised what we were doing and said it was just amazing.

“My daughter called me up to say the picture has gone viral.

“One guy who wears a turban tweeted it in Scotland and he contacted me to say people have been coming up to him asking if he knew me.”

Mr Singh previously posed beside an Urban Splash sign at Royal William in Plymouth, making the T shape with his arms to make it read “Turban Splash”.

He added: “It’s a bit of fun, but it’s also about being proud of who you are. This has taken the whole concept of the turban and humanised it.”

Head start for Leeds’ youth

A new fund looking to tackle long term unemployment among 18-24 years olds will launch in March 2014.

Towards the end of 2013, Leeds City Region was awarded £4.6million from the Government to deliver the “18-24 Head Start” programme to support young

people into employment.

Leeds City Council will receive £1.2million of this money to fund a local programme which will offer 800 young people, aged 18-24 years, who are furthest from the labour market (and claiming jobseekers allowance for six months or more), the chance of a

‘head start’ into work through a supported work experience placement.

At a meeting of Leeds City Council’s executive board on Friday 14th February, members will be asked to agree the new programme and how this will be delivered.

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Roop’s BIG Deal Cover story continued

It was a tense game for the 54year-old, who had boxes containing just £5, £100, £500 and £1,000 left going into his final round, alongside the big quarter of a million.

After refusing to deal when an offer of £46,000 was tabled, it was ultimately a flip of a coin, or a box lid, which sealed Roop’s fate and saw him become the shows seventh quarter-millionaire.

Speaking after the show, a thrilled Roop could not believe he had walked away with the money and explained how the ‘lucky box’ played its crucial role in the game.

“I’m over the moon, it hasn’t sunk in fully but I know it’s there and I’m just absolutely buzzing,” he said.

Leeds man wins £250,000 on TV show

“I just felt energy [from box number two] from the beginning.

It was so powerful and is hard to explain, it was like a spiritual energy and in my religion (Sikhism) the number two is about obedience.

“If you are obedient you will get to where you want to be so when it hit me, I really felt a powerful energy.”

He added: “Everybody’s love and energy was with me and I could just feel it and that is what guided me through.”

As just one of a handful of jackpot winners in the eight yearhistory of the show, Roop almost

became the show’s first halfmillionaire yet he refused to take advantage of the new ‘box 23’ option.

The special box has five possible outcomes, including a chance to double the cash or lose it all, yet by opting not to take the gamble he missed out on the ‘double your money’ option inside.

Since winning, Roop has bought presents for his family and friends and a bike for himself in order to cycle the coast of Britain. He also hopes to donate money to charities he supports.

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Revised learning disability service Senior councillors in Leeds will discuss proposals for an innovative new social enterprise to support people with learning disabilities.

The ambitious plans would see Leeds City Council’s Learning Disability Service transfer into the new business model, which would be owned and operated entirely by staff.

The service, which has an annual budget of £20.9m, supports more than 1,000 of the city’s most vulnerable adults, providing help and advice as well as hands-on personal care.

The move, designed to secure the future of the service, would represent the biggest shift to a social enterprise model of its kind ever to take place in Leeds. A detailed business case has been produced which underpins the proposed model.

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Cancer survivor urges south Asian women to check for signs

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After renowned actress Meera Syal joined the fight against cancer, a former sufferer of the disease has spoken to the Asian Express about the importance of checking for the signs.

Ranjna Morjaria was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2008 after finding a lump during a routine check of herself. Despite having no family history of the disease, the 62-year-old explained that she made it a routine to check herself after seeing a mammogram leaflet from the NHS. As the ‘pebble-like’ lump was

ACTRESS: Meera Syal provided celebrity support for the ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ campaign saying she wants women to be aware that breast cancer is a very real and relevant disease amongst Asians

spotted early, when Ranjna went to the doctors she was told that she did have breast cancer but due to an early prognosis was able to start treatment just three to four weeks later.

After six months of treatment, including surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy, the mother of one was given the all clear and was even able to return to work.

Now Ranjna, from India, is urging women from south Asian backgrounds to regularly check themselves and take advantage of mammogram invites because they could ultimately save your life.

She explained: “South Asians have to get rid of the misconception that cancer equals death and that people who get cancer have it because they have done something bad.

“I would encourage others to visit their GP, sit up and take notice.

Do not ignore

CAMPAIGNER: Ranjna Morjaria defeated mammogram cancer and is now urging South Asian invites and selfwomen across the UK to ‘Be Clear on Cancer’ e x a m i n e monthly. It is not always hereditary and instead women who have been through could be as a result of something any type of cancer,” she said. like stress or hormonal related.”

“The AWCG were extremely Ranjna still checks both breasts, helpful after my cancer treatment after being treated on a regular and now that I am better, I feel I basis, and continues to live a full need to help raise awareness in and healthy life surrounded by the hope of early diagnosis her loved ones. leading to timely treatment and She is now involved in raising lives saved. awareness of the disease and “Again it is very essential to hopes the work with the ‘Be Clear spread awareness of early on Cancer’ campaign will act as a symptoms as Asian women tend catalyst for more women to spot to be shy and therefore do not the signs early. willingly go for regular “I got involved [with the Be mammograms and cervical smear Clear on Cancer campaign] at our tests when invited to do so by the regular day time meeting of Asian National Health Service or to Women’s Cancer Group (AWCG) their GP if they spot blood in their which is a support group for Asian urine or stools.”

Hundreds raised for Bradford charity Representatives from the Al-Hira Islamic Community Centre in Bradford, Mr Hussain and Mr Rafiq visited Cancer Support Bradford & Airedale to make a £348.00 donation from a collection.

The Centre is proud to support local causes and continue to work with Cancer Support, raising vital funds for the round-the-clock assistance provided by the charity.

The charity’s Community Fundraiser, Linda Enderby, presented them with a certificate of thanks and said: “It’s encouraging to know that the members of this local community centre wanted their donation make a difference locally.

“The money will provide 12 support services to help people, in our district, affected by a cancer diagnosis.”

Cancer Support Bradford & Airedale is an independent charity that has supported local families, affected by a cancer diagnosis, for over 25 years. Anyone wishing to know more about its free support services or to make a donation should visit www.bradfordcancersupport.org.uk

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20,000 new jobs set for Leeds?

Leeds City Council has unveiled ambitious plans for the future of the city using HS2 as a catalyst for visionary developments on a scale never before seen in Leeds.

Plans would see an iconic new rail station built on the south bank representing a stunning keystone in the regeneration of the area, which at 136 hectares will be one of the biggest regeneration projects in Europe.

The significant regeneration scheme of south bank, comprising Holbeck urban village, areas around the old Tetley brewery and Leeds Dock, would deliver 250,000sqm of employment land with the potential to deliver 20,000 new jobs and 5,000 new homes.

It is thought when fully developed the area could rival the bustling north bank, which contains the civic, university, arena and retail quarters as well as Trinity Leeds.

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Al-Madinah free school stops secondary classes A Muslim free school that was branded ‘dysfunctional’ and ‘inadequate’ by inspectors is to end secondary education.

The Government stepped in after a damning Ofsted report warned Al-Madinah in Derby, which teaches around 400 children aged 4-16, was in ‘chaos’.

Inspectors said the school was ‘reliant on the goodwill of an interim principal to prevent it totally collapsing’.

Although primary education will continue, Schools Minister Lord Nash said: “I have come to the conclusion it would simply not be in the interests of parents or pupils at the secondary school to continue to fund provision which has failed them in the manner now

apparent.”

Al-Madinah opened in September 2012 and is described as having ‘a Muslim ethos’.

The school has faced claims it discriminated against women, made staff cover their hair even if they are not Muslim and split up boys and girls in classrooms.

During its inspection in October 2013, Ofsted found pupils' achievement was inadequate because the expectations of staff were too low.

It also found many teachers were inexperienced, had not received the training and support they needed and were unable to deliver effective lessons.

A follow-up inspection in

December found there was still ‘no sign of improvement’.

A spokesman for the Department for Education said the Government had acted ‘swiftly and decisively’ after identifying failures like those at Al-Madinah.

“Based on the current situation, we believe the new board... needs to focus efforts on the primary school in order to bring about the level of improvement required,” he said.

“The board has accepted our decision to close the secondary school and we have offered our full support in helping pupils to find alternative places before the start of the next academic year.”

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Council tax rises

After three years of freezing council tax in the face of heavy cuts, Leeds City Council is having to recommend raising it by 1.99 per cent, along with a 5.9 per cent rise in council house rents, as it has to make a further £50m in savings.

As the council enters a fourth year of severe cuts to its funding it can no longer afford a council tax freeze and is also planning to lose up to 200 jobs next year. This is on top of over 1,800 that have gone in the past three years, including 25 per cent of senior manager posts.

The council tax rise would represent an increase of 43p a week for a Band D household. Government grant reductions alone have taken £94m out of the council’s budget over the past three years, and this government funding is being further cut by over 10 per cent in the coming year.

In addition, the government’s planned changes to the rent-setting formula will mean rents having to go up by 5.9 per cent to balance a loss in income to the council of £3.5m from 2015 and £6.5m the following year in order to protect services to tenants.

River restoration

A range of work to improve three lakes located at one of the Leeds’ most popular parks is now underway.

Over a six week period, each of the lakes at Temple Newsam Park will be drained to allow machinery to remove silt and leaves that have built up over the years, with the mud rich in nutrients that is taken out being used as a soil improver at a nearby field.

Once this clearance is completed a number of other improvements will also be made, including repairs to some of the lakes edges, planting to improve water quality and securing the banks with a view to providing a haven for wildlife.

As part of the £106,000 scheme, which includes a grant of £45,000 accessed by GrantScape from the Caird Bardon Community Programme, the lakes will be safely fenced off and the lakeside paths and car park will be intermittently closed to allow access for machines and vehicles.

Textile History set for museum

A new micro manufacturing project which will celebrate the rich textile heritage of Leeds and Yorkshire has been launched at a city museum.

Bringing together a unique mixture of expert skill and material from the region, the aim of the project is to create high quality cloth using the machinery of a 1921 Hattersley ‘Standard Loom’ currently residing at Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills.

Developed through a collaboration between Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills and Yorkshire Textiles by designer Susan Gaunt, the ‘Armley Mills Cloth’ is produced with 100 per cent British wool yarn spun by Laxtons Yarns, a specialist yarn manufacturer in Guiseley and Sunny Bank Mill Textile Archive, a business in Farsley.

For further information, please contact Amy Jenkinson, Assistant Curator of Industrial History, via the following email: amy.jenkinson@leeds.go.uk or by phone: 0113 2244 372.

Additional information can also be found at: www.leeds.gov.uk/museums andgalleries

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Nine-year-old boy approached by stranger at Bradford primary school Parents warned to vigilant after second stranger alert case in four months

PATROL: Neighbourhood Police will patrol the streets outside the school at the start and end of the school day

Safer Communities Fund Up to half a million pounds a year in criminal assets is to be delivered back to communities in West Yorkshire, after Police and Crime Commissioner, Mark Burns Williamson launched the Safer Communities Fund.

The initiative will see money, seized under the Proceeds of Crime Act within the county, fed into a single pot of cash, exclusively for community safety initiatives.

Local organisations and groups across the county will be able to submit applications of up to £10,000.

West Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner Mark BurnsWilliamson said: “I have launched the Safer Communities Fund to bring together money seized from criminals across the county into a single

community purse.

“I want to make it easier for local groups and organisations to receive money under the Proceeds of Crime Act and make a difference to the local communities.

“Thousands of pounds recovered from criminals will be made available in four bidding rounds per year. Each submission must also meet the priorities and outcomes outlined in my Police and Crime Plan.

“Under current legislation, the Government keeps half of the money seized from criminals in West Yorkshire, however; I want to see all of that returned to the county. This could potentially double the cash available within my Safer Communities Fund and help to keep people safe and feeling safe.”

A Bradford Primary school has been put on high alert after a pupil was approached by an Asian man at the school gates.

For the second time in less than four months, Cavendish Primary School, on Hall Road, Eccleshill, has been at the centre of a ‘stranger danger’ case as a nine-year-old was reportedly targeted by an unknown man.

The school has sent out cautionary texts to all parents in regard to the case urging them to be vigilant and careful with their children, whilst police have begun an investigation into the report.

The boy told teachers he was concerned by the man, who he had never seen before, after getting dropped off by his mother at the school gates.

Describing him as Asian, in his mid 30s and balding,

teachers immediately checked CCTV for footage of the culprit and informed police immediately, who then commenced a search of the area.

It is not the first time the school has been involved with an apparent abduction case.

In October 2013, a similar case was seen at the school gates when a 61year-old man was arrested and bailed after grabbing the wrist of a three-yearold girl as she walked with her mother.

That time the suspect was also alleged to have spoken inappropriately to the girl before fleeing. Police had stressed it was an isolated incident and urged parents not to worry.

Neighbourhood policing team officers will now be patrolling the area at start and end of the school day whilst the investigation continues.

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Tackling Bridgewater’s winds

Leeds City Council has reviewed its wind policy covering the Bridgewater Place junction to include further safety precautions in the light of a coroner’s recommendations.

Councillors will be asked to approve the revised conditions covering when and how the junction around Yorkshire’s highest skyscraper should be closed in the face of high winds.

It will mean that the road junction will be closed to traffic and pedestrians, with pedestrians instead being diverted to a footway to the east and protected by an extended shelter. The lower 45mph wind speed trigger for actionalready in use informally- will also be confirmed.

The review was conducted after an inquest found that freak wind conditions that led to a lorry being blown onto Dr Edward Slaney had been caused by the building itself.

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AMBASSADOR: One Direction’s Zayn Malik was honoured last week as he became the latest ambassador of the British Asian trust

British Asian Trust welcomes their latest ambassador, Zayn Malik One Direction Star, and Bradford boy, Zayn Malik, has been named as the latest official ambassador for the British Asian Trust.

The 21-year-old was praised by the charity’s executive director for his ‘immense talent’ as part of the world’s biggest boyband.

The trust provides funding to help disadvantaged people in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Zayn joins fellow British Asian Trust Ambassadors: Naughty Boy, Sanjeev Bhaskar, Dev Patel, Mishal Husain, Laila Rouass, Preeya Kalidas, Nitin Ganatra

and Nina Wadia, as they continue to raise funds for South Asian projects.

Hitan Mehta, Executive Director of The British Asian Trust said: “We are delighted to welcome Zayn Malik to The British Asian Trust family; he is a young man with immense talent and a dedicated following.

“Zayn joins a dedicated group of celebrity supporters, who have worked alongside us helping to improve the lives of disadvantaged people living in South Asia.”

One Direction have achieved worldwide stardom since

breaking onto the scene in 2010 following their time on X-Factor.

Their achievements include two BRIT Awards and four MTV Video Music Awards among many others.

After the release of their latest album, Midnight Memories, One Direction became the first band in US Billboard 200 history to have their first three albums debut at No. 1. The album was also a global success, debuting at No 1 on the UK Albums Chart and became the fastest and biggest selling album of 2013 in the UK.

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Children’s hospice welcomes new ambassadors

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REPRESENTATIVES: Nina Hossain and Graham Leslie (centre), were made official ambassadors of the Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice last week, pictured here with the charity’s Chief Executive, Peter Branson

A Huddersfield-based children’s hospice was proud to announce the arrival of two new ambassadors earlier this week.

ITN newscaster, Nina Hossain, and serial entrepreneur, Graham Leslie, were welcomed to the positions at Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice after working with the charity in the past.

Nina, from a Bangladeshi background, currently presents the news on ITV and helped launch the charity’s Tea Party Campaign in August, attending a special Yorkshire Day tea party with her own children.

As a keen supporter of the charity, which covers the Kirklees, Calderdale and Wakefield areas, Nina said she was looking forward to helping the team raise vital funds throughout the upcoming years.

She said: “I hope that Graham [Leslie] and I can work together, to help in any way possible, to get the message out there about how vital the work is that Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice does for its community.

“There are 700 families that could benefit from the care and support from the charity and we need to make them aware of the help that is available to them.

“The charity needs to raise a gigantic £2.8million each year and we need to support the team at Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice to ensure that they are getting the right funding this year, for future years and decades to come.”

Nina and Graham join fellow Forget Me Not ambassadors, Hannah Cockroft - MBE, British Wheel Chair Athlete and Paralympic Gold Medalist - and Daniel Lloyd - British Racing Car Driver and Porsche Carrera Cup GB Scholarship Winner.

Peter Branson, Chief Executive of Forget Me Not Children’s Hospice was delighted to welcome the pair to the hospice team.

He added: “We are thrilled that both Graham Leslie and Nina Hossain have accepted our invitation to become Ambassadors of our charity.

“They are both already extremely passionate and supportive of the work that we do.

“Their role as Ambassadors will be to champion our cause and continue to support specific campaigns and events to help us build awareness and reach out to more families who need our help.”

ITV presenter and local entrepreneur show support for charity

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Dinosaur Discovery

‘Jurassic Park’ to arrive in Bradford

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Creatures which roamed the earth millions of years ago are to make a sudden return to Bradford in upcoming months as Dinosaur Discovery opens up behind Tong Garden Centre.

An array of model dinosaurs will inhabit the currently empty land in the spring, as the attraction aims to educate visitors about their prehistoric history from the Triassic era through to the Ice Age. The idea comes from former theme park designer, Christian Cristobal, who moved to Yorkshire from the Philippines ten years ago.

After working as a landscape artist for many years he felt compelled to return to his roots to create a dinosaur attraction amongst the woodland at Tong Lane.

The huge models, which include animatronic versions as well as static designs, will range from wooly Mammoths, to a Tyrannosaurus Rex and even the flying Velociraptor.

Replica moving dinosaurs and other extinct beasts will be included along a trail and Cristobal hopes the area will be used in early education and become a

February 2014 - 2nd Edition MODEL: The Velociraptor will be just one model of dinosaur which visitors can see at the new site when it launches in the spring

popular location for educatory school trips.

He has even created a raptor which he wears and controls himself to make the whole experience more interactive for youngsters.

Speaking about opening the new site, he said: “One day I woke up and thought, ‘I’m going to do it, I’m going to open my own dinosaur park’. I went out and told my friends and they all said I was mad.

“What we’re working on at the moment is the wow factor; we’re working on the gimmicks to entertain people, like putting on the costume and chasing the children.

They love it. We’re trying to bring some drama to the experience.

“I’ve been living in Yorkshire for ten years now and no

new attractions have been built.

Instead of taking your kids away somewhere this park would be something to do locally. It’s a unique attraction.”

Cristobal has had to battle against the weather conditions recently, with the launch of ‘Dinosaur Discovery’ put on hold due to torrential downpours.

However, despite having to make alterations to damaged models, which each need more than 12 hours to make, he remains optimistic that Yorkshire’s own ‘Jurassic Park’ will open in the Spring.

The dinosaurs have been on show in various locations in the past with minimal fees charged for entry, a pricing strategy which will continue at the Tong site.

DINOSAURS: Christian Cristobal used to be a theme park designer and has now got his sights set on bringing prehistoric beasts to Bradford

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Asylum Matters Scare stories are printed with alarming frequency propagating myths about asylum seekers- they’re blamed for higher taxes, rising crime rates, terrorism- and that’s just to name a few.

But where does the truth lie. The facts are these: a typical asylum seeker receives less than six pounds per day to live on; most have substantial education and work related qualifications and were successful individuals in their home countries.

Perhaps most importantly- most have fled their home countries due to serious human rights abuses being carried out and not because they see the UK as the land of milk and honey.

Asylum seekers are invariably catapulted into a complex judicial process and are at the mercy of the system. Many are refused legal aid and are therefore left to represent themselves, often with dire lifealtering consequences.

This is where the Manuel Bravo Project steps into the breach.

The project, borne out of tragedy following the suicide of an unsuccessful asylum seeker, has gone from strength to ACKNOWLEDGED: The Manuel Bravo Project strength since its inception in team were awarded a ‘Community Organisation’ 2007. award last year for the fantastic work they do Manuel was an asylum seeker from Angola, who tragically took his own life in 2005. After fleeing from his home in Angola, due to attacks on his family following his prodemocracy activity, he settled in Leeds.

At his asylum hearing his solicitor failed to show, leaving Manuel to represent himself, Project provides a valuable service services or assistance with the which he did and lost forcing him to to those clients who have reached translation of documents and letters. return home. the end of the road with regards There is currently a bank of He subsequently took his own life legal assistance. interpreters who are able to assist in hope that his son would be able to Clients are referred to the project with languages such as Urdu, remain in the country for safety and then seen by teams of non- Punjabi, Arabic, French, Ligula, reasons. immigration lawyers whilst guidance Nepali, Kurdish, Farsi and Dar, to The Manuel Bravo Project is provided by a panel of specialist name just a few. provides free legal assistance for solicitors or barristers.

None of this would be possible people seeking asylum. Acting for In addition, they are very ably without our volunteers who give up clients on appeals and on fresh assisted by teams of interpreters their time and services free of claims and only for those for whom who volunteer their services to the charge to help our clients in a legal aid has been refused, the Project to help with interpreting manner suitable to their individual

Manuel Bravo Project looks out for asylum seekers strengths and skills.

If you are interested in volunteering, the Bravo Project will train and provide you with as much support as possible.

If you are interested in helping the project please contact Legal Development Worker Sabeeha Khan on sabeeha.khan@ manuelbravo.org.uk or telephone on 0113 350 8608 for an informal and preliminary discussion.

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People are being offered the opportunity to learn more about the Tour de France Grand Depart and how they can get involved when the event passes through the Bradford district on 5th and 6th July next year.

The meetings will take place at: Victoria Hall, in Keighley, on Saturday 8th February at 10am; West Lane Baptist Chapel, Haworth, on Wednesday 12th February at 7pm, and King's Hall, in Ilkley, on Thursday 13th February at 7pm.

There will be presentations from Bradford Council with information about the event, how to get involved and how the event will be managed.

There will also be time for questions and answers after the presentations.

Bradford Triathlon set for city

Bradford Council is hosting its first triathlon using the Great Northern Trail on Sunday 20th April.

Triathlons have become hugely popular, especially through the Brownlee brothers who are members of the Bingley Harriers & Athletics Club.

Both Alistair and Jonny are former World Champions and Alistair is the current Olympic champion in this growing event.

Alistair and Jonny said: “We are really happy to see more and more people getting involved in triathlons around Yorkshire. This is what the Olympic legacy is all about. Triathlon definitely isn't a sport just for mad or super fit people. Everybody can have a go.”

For more information or to book a place on the triathlon please visit www.bradford.gov.uk/triathlon

The government’s ‘Help to Buy’ mortgage guarantee scheme can now also be used by providers of Home Purchase Plans, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Sajid Javid, announced this week.

Home Purchase Plans (HPPs) are a Sharia law compliant alternative to mortgages and are often known as ‘Islamic Mortgages’.

The Help to Buy scheme has already helped thousands get on or move up the housing ladder, and the government remains committed to making the aspiration of home ownership a reality for as many households as possible.

In line with this the government has been looking at how to open up access to the Help to Buy mortgage guarantee schemes, so that providers of HPPs can also benefit.

From this week the rules have been amended to enable banks that sell HPPs to purchase a government guarantee for them.

Additionally, the Islamic Bank of Britain have stated their intention of participating to offer Home Purchase Plans under the scheme.

This will be particularly supportive to some Muslim homebuyers who have been unwilling to use a traditional Help to Buy mortgage because of their religious beliefs.

However, the inclusion of HPPs in the Help to Buy scheme introduces more choice for all consumers and perspective homebuyers.

Sajid Javid said: “I am

delighted Home Purchase Plans will now be available under the Help to Buy scheme.

This gives even more choice to hardworking families across the UK trying to fulfil their home owning aspirations.”

Under an HPP, a property’s ownership is split between the customer and the bank. After buying a portion of the property with their initial deposit, the purchaser of the property pays regular installments to the bank, covering rent for the portion they do not own and an acquisition payment. In this way a customer gradually buys the property from the bank and eventually becomes the sole owner.

In order to purchase the government guarantee, banks will have to satisfy the same stringent criteria for an HPP as for a normal mortgage. HPPs sold in the UK are also subject to regulation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), in much the same way as mortgages.

The Help to Buy extension builds on the government’s commitment to support the UK Islamic finance market, worth around £11bn each year, and retain London’s position as the premier western Islamic financial centre.

At last year’s World Islamic Economic Forum in London – the first outside the Islamic world – the government announced its intention to issue a sovereign Sukuk, or Islamic bond, for the first time.

It also eased lending restrictions on and oversaw the

introduction of two new financial products, Islamic student and start-up loans. This follows the establishment of Islamiccompliant student and start-up loans, to encompass all faiths and the setup of an Islamic Index on the London Stock Exchange.

The action and innovation on consumer financial products, including home loans, student loans and business loans among others, will ensure all sections of society can help drive growth in the economy and support the UK in the global race.

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Commemorations for founder of Bradford Masjid Celebrating the life of Shaykh Sufi Mohammed Aslam

By Ashley Grint ashley@asianexpress.co.uk

Members of a local Masjid in Bradford paid their respects to the founder and former leader last week, to mark one year since his passing.

Shaykh Sufi Mohammed Aslam headed the Naqshbandia Active Development Association (NADA), which runs the Jamia Masjid

REMEMBERED: Shaykh Sufi Mohammed Aslam past away on the 8th February 2013

Naqshbandia Aslamia in the city, and sadly passed away on the 8th February 2013.

Since the Masjid was developed in 2010, crime in the area of Manningham has fallen as a whole whilst the place of worship has promoted the Islamic values of ‘peace, love and tolerance’.

A special gathering was held in the Shaykh’s honour, with his eldest son, Sahibzada Sufi Amjad Aslam, organising the event in which more than 600 people, from across the UK, attended.

The event was also streamed live over the internet to many more who wished to pay their respects including in places such as the US, Pakistan and Poland.

Amid the celebration of the Shaykh’s life, the programme included spiritual meditation, known as dikhr, Quran recitation, Nasheeds and speeches in English and Urdu.

The Shaykh's achievements and life were remembered, ranging from stories of his selfless acts in the Bradford District for over 35 years, to him putting the community first, over even his own health, living for almost 20 years with just one lung.

The Grand Supplication included over 74 Quran's read, 3.3 million salutations on Prophet Muhammad and hundreds of thousands of other praiseworthy chapters read from the Quran by people from all over the world.

Nazim Ali, NADA's General Secretary, said: “We at NADA are grateful for all the unwavering love and support of the local and wider community during what has been an understandably emotional period for us.

“We endeavour to build steadfastly on the solid foundations left by our beloved Shaykh in engaging in civic renewal and upholding the Islamic values of ‘Peace, Love and Tolerance’.

“Our resolute drive and determination to make a difference in people's lives is as strong as it has ever been.”

NADA has continued to actively work with the local community and has raised funds for several causes throughout the past 12 months, with more planned for the near future.

Included in the past events were: a Team Minarets climb of Mount Snowdon – which raised £16,000, the sixth annual ‘Bringing Communities Together’ football tournament, delivering gifts to the Children’s Ward 17 at Bradford Royal Infirmary during Eid and much more.

For further information about NADA and the work they do please contact Nazim Ali on 07825 698283 or email nazim27@hotmail.com

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Fundraisers aim to tackle tricky 15k

A Hilly Challenge A team of fundraisers from Halifax are hoping to overcome a tall challenge later this month as they attempt to conquer the route from Halifax to Bradford.

The team, running on behalf of nationwide charity, Islamic Relief, will be setting off on Monday 24th February as they tackle the hilly course between Halifax town centre and Centenary Square in Bradford.

Organised by Khwaja Arfan Mir, who will be running alongside a number of family members, he explained why he decided to set up the ‘fundraising mission’.

“Initially it was just going to be me doing the run but as I started mentioning it to people, others wanted to get involved so I thought ‘why not?’” he said.

“I feel that people do want to help with fundraising but too often they just don’t know where to turn or how to begin.

Hopefully by them joining in this run we can raise important funds for the vulnerable people in Syria.

“I truly believe that there are good people out there

who just need something like this to get started with their fundraising.”

He added: “If I raise just £20, at least it will be £20 more than nothing going

towards a great cause.”

Confronting the testing uphill route, will be a team of runners, joggers and walkers who want to raise money to help Syria’s

suffering population. Since the civil war began, more than one million people have been left homeless with many children becoming orphans.

Mohammed Mohsin Qayyuum, will also be doing the run and explained why he signed up to take part: “I got involved initially because it seemed like a really good thing to do to help children in Syria in particular.

“It could have been any cause really and been worthy but I look forward to this challenge and helping these most vulnerable.”

Ehsan Ali Mir and Haider Ali are also helping with the fundraising efforts and urged anybody who can to come down and get involved on the day.

To find out more information about the run, including how to take part, please visit Islamic Relief’s North East Facebook page or contact Arfan on 07772 502 543.

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‘If we help save one life, we have succeeded’

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A team of English firefighters are set to embark on a different type of challenge later this year as they attempt to extinguish any bad habits that exist within the Pakistan Fire Service.

Spearheaded by the Asian Fire Service Association (AFSA), a group of between five and seven volunteers will head out to South Asia in April on a fact finding mission to build up a clear picture of what needs improving in Pakistan.

The team will visit the Punjab, an area which has some of the best access to fire stations in the country, for a short visit to better understand the current level of performance.

With a number of factory fires tearing down buildings in the country recently, alongside the 2013 earthquake, fire prevention and disaster management will be top of the agenda for the crew.

Kirklees District Prevention Manager, Mohammed Ali, was selected as Project Manager for the trip and has regularly visited the country in the past.

Alongside members of the Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service, Lancashire FRS and Tyne and Wear FRS, he will visit the country in the Spring to begin work on the Punjab Project.

The 40-year-old Bradford resident was proud to join the initiative and hopes it will be a longterm project which will expand into further areas in Pakistan.

Explaining why he got involved with the Punjab Rescue project, Mohammed said: “From the first time I heard about the project I was very interested in not only being able to utilise my skills but also help others.

“Here in West Yorkshire we have many ethnic minority residents with families over in the Punjab and Kashmir areas, I myself am from Kashmir.

“Seeing people die in these areas through fire, because the wrong infrastructure, or no infrastructure, is in place to deal with

emergency, gives me that bit more motivation to go out there and help. If we help save one life, we have succeeded.”

Mohammed has been with the fire service for more than ten years yet has never been involved with such a pioneering project.

Alongside representatives from fire stations up and down the country, he will be one of the first people tasked with building the relations between the two countries.

As well as ‘looking forward’ to embarking on the trip, he explained what the team would exactly be doing during the first visit.

“What we will do when we are out there, amongst other things, is a risk assessment,” he said. “We will look at different parts of the operational side, record the findings, come back here and review where the current standard is at, what needs improving and how best to advance.

“We want to ensure that their fire crews are operating at an international level, so hopefully we will build a training package around what needs improving and then send out another team in September or October who can then start to implement and deliver what we have agreed on.”

He added: “Eventually it would be great if we could send over resources for these trained staff to use, and then even roll out the project into other areas of the country.”

To fund the trip, a special evening of entertainment is planned to take place on 14th March at the Aagrah Midpoint Restaurant, Bradford, which will act as a fundraising effort for the cause, as well as an Africa expedition project and Waterwell project.

Singer/songwriter, Husnain Lahori, is set to headline the night, with food also served up from the famous Aagrah kitchen.

Tickets cost just £20 and can be purchased by contacting, Mohammed Ali, on 07890 543 350, or Mehrban Sadiq on 07500 888 579.

“Eventually it would be great if we could send over resources for these trained staff to use, and then even roll out the project into other areas of the country.”

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Signed and sealed

By Anush Ansari anush@asianexpress.co.uk

In what has been, primarily, a call from South Asian communities to reform the coroners system in making the loss of loved ones less harrowing, Bradford has signed off contracts to bring non-evasive post mortem facilities to the city.

Ground-breaking £1.5 million 3-D equipment will be installed at Bradford's Forensic Science Centre this year, an extension at the Burnham Avenue mortuary, off Rooley Lane.

The state-of-the-art equipment provided by Malaysian-based life science enterprise iGenei, is intended to be less harrowing for relatives when dealing with the death of a loved one.

The three dimensional visualisation software and scanner provides a possible alternative to the traditional post mortem procedures without a surgical dissection of the body.

This may mean that eventually up to 70 per cent of post-mortem examinations could be noninvasive.

In some cases, the process may allow the body to be released for a funeral sooner, providing there are no further investigations to follow.

The contract was signed by Deputy Leader of Bradford Council, Imran Hussain last week.

Commenting on the new facility, Councillor Imran Hussain said: “We are proud to be pioneering this modern technology as Bradford is one of the first places in the country to have a digital autopsy facility.

“It will be welcome news for all bereaved families as traditional invasive post mortems can be distressing for relatives. This new technology will ensure we can offer a less invasive post mortem to families as an alternative in appropriate cases.”

Bradford will be the second city in the country after Sheffield to use the modern technology.

SIGNED: Deputy Leader of Bradford Council, Imran Hussain signs the contract to bring non-evasive autopsy facilities to Bradford by the end of this year

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Partnership aims to provide support for Somalia

A newly formed partnership, between an education charity and the Mo Farah Foundation is hoping to inspire and empower young people in Somalia.

The Tauheedul Relief Trust will be working with the foundation and will begin with a programme to support schools in Somalia with resources, books, furniture, meals and health initiatives.

The partnership was launched with the presentation of a £20,000 donation to the Mo Farah Foundation by the Tauheedul Relief Trust in Blackburn on the 10th February 2014. Funds received will be used by the Mo Farah Foundation to implement and deliver key areas of their education programme.

Mo Isap, Vice Chair of the Tauheedul Trust said: “At Tauheedul, we are passionate about making a difference to the lives of children through education.

“Our partnership with Mo Farah Foundation is underpinned by a vision of more children in Somalia attending school and having all the opportunities that this brings.

“The programme to support schools is an example of how our partnership will raise the aspirations of thousands of children and young people in Somalia.”

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Huddersfield regeneration Work has started on bringing a landmark building in Huddersfield town centre back to life.

The five storey property, which occupies a prominent position on the corner of Railway Street and St George’s Square, is being refurbished and converted into apartments.

The Grade II Listed building dates from 1856. It forms part of Tite’s Buildings, named after the architect Sir William Tite and originally used by textile merchants for offices and warehousing.

The premises housed the popular Alassio coffee bar from the 1950’s, before a serious fire in the late 1980’s. Since then, the building has been derelict and shrouded in scaffolding for the last few years.

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A group of young people from Huddersfield’s Pakistan Youth Forum (PYF) helped to commemorate the loss of over six million human lives in one of the world’s most tragic genocides of ethnic cleansing in recent history.

Staged at Huddersfield Town Hall, the event was held to coincide with the unveiling of a sculpture, designed by artist Antonia Stowe, made up of six million buttons in remembrance of each life which was lost during the Holocaust.

The young people from the PYF displayed their work alongside fellow community groups and adults, with design similar to that of the centerpiece.

Their particular contribution was to develop a table top model which demonstrated their own take on what the Holocaust meant to them.

Throughout the day, the young people said they found the event ‘informative’ and ‘inspiring’ reminding them about important values such as ‘respecting human life’.

PYF Project Coordinator, Sofia Buncy, emphasised the importance of learning about such historic events which affected so many people’s lives.

She said: “What impressed me

most was how hard young people worked to understand and to help to commemorate something that happened in the past.

“Tragedies are still ongoing in other countries today and these needs to be challenged and addressed as we all have a humanitarian commitment to this.

Thus the Holocaust Memorial event has a real meaning for us all.”

touched on the holocaust in school I really did not understand full scale of things until this event.”

Kim Stickson, Community Heritage Manager for Kirklees Council, added: “It was very important for us to hear ideas, comments and reflections from local people on what the new memorial should be like and who it would touch.

Six million reasons to remember those affected by the Holocaust 20-year-old, Aadil Yousaf, and Sanah Firdous, 19, both partook in the activities on the day, and explained why they wanted to get involved.

“It was important for us to be part of the evening. We have showed humanity in terms of good things and bad things, the Holocaust is as important to us as it is to young people from other communities,” Sanah said.

Aadil continued by explaining how he knew little about the holocaust beforehand: “This was a first; although we have briefly

“PYF have been a fantastic group to work with because they understand that the sculpture will be much more than a memorial to the Holocaust.

“It will acknowledge all the genocides that have taken place since and will be a significant place of learning and discussion for young people about the dangers of discrimination.

“They played a major role in the Holocaust Memorial Day event in Huddersfield and the audience was visibly moved and impressed by their presentation.”

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Disgust at DISGUSTED: Mohammed Ilyas has written to the airline in an attempt to find out why his grandmother was forced to stay on a plane for an extra seven hours without any food or refreshments

ORDEAL: PIA has come under fire recently for a range of issues, from the drunken pilot scandal to a steward attempting to smuggle kilograms of heroin into the UK

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Pakistan International Airlines has once again come under fire from angry customers after they were made to wait almost 20 hours for a flight to finally arrive at Leeds Bradford Airport last week.

After an exhausting ninehour flight, which had already been delayed two hours, passengers on the PK775 flight from Islamabad to LBA were told that the plane would have to be diverted to Manchester Airport due to adverse weather conditions.

Upon arrival at Manchester, the plane was then grounded on the runway for a further four hours with passengers still onboard, before being flown back to LBA for a final time.

The whole ordeal resulted in the passengers finally leaving the plane seven hours later than expected, and for a number of Bradford residents affected by the delay, it was the ‘final straw’ for the highlycriticised airline.

Mohammed Ilyas was one resident who went to the LBA to collect his 84-yearold grandmother, only to be put through the lengthy ordeal.

With his relative not being given any food or water during the delay, Mr Ilyas has now written to the

airline and says this is not the first time something like this has happened with PIA. “It seems that every flight is either delayed or there are complaints with this airline,” he said.

“There was that shocking case of the drunk pilot not so long ago and for me PIA are doing nothing to better their reputation.

“Thankfully, when I travel to Pakistan I can go by Emirates and stopover in a country yet for elders it is a

APPALLED: Manningham Councillor, Ishtiaq Ahmed, was disgusted with the customer service offered by PIA as he waited for hours to greet his family

big inconvenience. They don’t want to change planes and that means they have to fly with PIA as they are the only providers who do this.”

He added: “What happened last weekend was absolutely shocking. For people to be sat on the runway of Manchester Airport for four hours and not be allowed off the plane is ridiculous.

“I didn’t meet my grandmother until 2am, despite her plane scheduled for landing the previous afternoon.”

Cllr Ishtiaq Ahmed, representative of the Manningham Ward for the Bradford Independent Group, was also waiting for his relatives, including his almost 90-year-old grandmother, to arrive on the same flight.

Describing the handling of the situation by the airline as ‘appalling’ and ‘ridiculous’ Mr Ahmed was forced to pay more than £40 in just parking fees, with the additional cost of petrol for two cars to journey to Manchester and back.

It is not the first time the Bradford councillor has been affected by PIA and he now believes that boycotting the airline may be the only way to force PIA to ‘change its ways’.

He explained: “The only reason most people fly with PIA in my experience is because it is the only direct flight to Pakistan from here.

“Other airlines may stop

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20-hour PIA plane delay PIA passengers forced through ‘ridiculous’ ordeal as pilot takes seven hour detour, leaving customers ‘demanding answers’ off in Dubai or somewhere and that changeover is obviously not preferable for elderly passengers in particular, but the way PIA have been handling their customer service is just terrible.

“It has gone so far that people are just so sick of it now. I hadn’t been on a PIA flight for 18 years and when I did I found that nothing had changed, if anything, things had gotten even worse.”

Mr Ahmed flew with the airline at New Year’s and was made to queue for more than four hours to just get on the plane.

He believes that this experience, plus last weekend’s incident, has not only emphasised the airline’s poor customer service but reiterated that the time for a boycott may have arrived.

“Every time we are flying with PIA we spend around £500 and £600 and we have to expect some level of customer service,” he said.

“My family has told me that on their flight in the weekend, they were never told what was happening and there was just no communication at all.

“Things have to change if PIA are to ever learn and if we must boycott the airline to see results,

then maybe that is what we should do.”

A PIA spokesperson apologised for the delay in an issued statement. It read: “We do regret the delay and inconvenience caused to our valued customers but sometimes the situation gets beyond human control.

“We once again apologise to our valued customers and assure them of better service in future.”

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Yorkshire Festival 2014

An exciting flash mob took Trinity Leeds by storm earlier this week as the Yorkshire Festival 2014 programme was revealed for the very first time.

Singers, artists and performers joined forces in a glittering spectacle at Europe’s newest shopping complex, to give the public a taste of what to expect.

A carnival snail, woolly bikes, choirs and brass bands emerged from shops to join band Hope & Social on the concourse for a debut performance of the official Yorkshire Festival song, The Big Wide.

They were watched by shoppers and supporters of the Yorkshire Festival 2014, which began its procession from Angelica through the complex to watch the performance en route to Holy Trinity Church.

They are all part of the full programme of events which were announced earlier in the week for the first time, as the county gears up for Yorkshire Festival 2014 – the first ever to precede the Tour de France in its 111 year history.

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Operation Viper bites in Bradford Deadly haul of weapons seized during raids Crossbows, swords, knives and a revolver were just some of the lethal weapons found during a day of raids by West Yorkshire Police in Bradford as Operation Viper struck again.

Specialist entry teams carried out 10 warrant searches throughout the city, as the haul of weapons were seized and seven people were arrested.

Working alongside neighbourhood police officers, CID teams and Viper officers, the team completed the first day of an intensive week of searching on Tuesday 28th January.

Following a search of a property on Allison Lane, Bolton Woods, a 28-year-old man was arrested on firearms offences after a number of air weapons were recovered.

A 49-year-old man and a 55-yearold woman were also arrested from a property on Sewell Road, Laisterdyke, after suspected Class A crack cocaine, with an estimated street value of £800, was found in a kitchen cupboard.

Further arrests included a 45year-old man from Elsdon Grove, Little Horton, who was taken into

custody on suspicion of possession with intent to supply Class B drugs after officers uncovered around a kilogram of cannabis at the property.

Two other people have also been arrested in connection with three burglaries and one man was taken into custody on suspicion of cannabis possession.

Chief Superintendent Dickie Whitehead, who leads Operation Viper, said: “This week is just one of a number of proactive tactics we are employing as we aim to turn the fear of crime onto criminals themselves.

“The week of action in Bradford follows on from a similar operation in Leeds that helped to reduce incidents of burglary by over 20 per cent.

“The seizure of Class A and B drugs removes them from the local market place and recovery of the cache of weapons is something that makes the streets of Bradford a safer place for local people.”

SEIZED: Amongst the weapons found by police were an array of knives and swords, whilst Class A and B drugs were also seized

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Schools still rife with racism

75 per cent of bullying incidents in Bradford schools are racist

Racism in schools has been pushed to the fore with people questioning how big the issue actually is.

Britain and in particular Yorkshire is seen as a multicultural area where people accept each other from different walks of life.

It has been revealed that racism is the biggest type of bullying at schools in Bradford accounting for 75 per cent of incidents during the last academic year.

Previously, there was no statutory requirement nationally, and never has been, that racist incidents should be recorded.

However, when the new Ofsted framework, which came into effect on 1 January 2012, and was then slightly revised for September 2012, it made clear that inspectors expected schools to keep detailed records not only of racist incidents but also of all prejudice-related incidents.

Though figures are not yet documented, previously a total of 344 bullying incidents were

reported by schools in the Yorkshire district between September, 2010, and July, 2011, of which 260 were deemed to be racist, in figures obtained through a Freedom of Information request show.

Figures also suggest that racist incidents in schools accounted for more than half of the recorded bullying incidents.

Other types of bullying reported by schools during this period include incidents relating to disability, family nationality or lifestyle, homophobia, gender and religion.

A former headteacher Ray Honeyford, who died aged 77 in 2012, had sparked a national scandal in 1984 when he wrote an article warning that “Asian ghettoes” would be created within the country’s inner cities.

He was vilified as a racist for criticising multi-culturalism.

In his report, he criticised councils for allowing children to be “sent to the Indian subcontinent” during term time and also hit out at what he called propaganda from “multi-

racial zealots” and council bureaucracies which he argued made freedom of speech difficult to maintain.

At the time he was the headmaster of Drummond Middle School which served a predominantly Asian area of Bradford.

The reaction to his article led to protests, reported death threats being made against him and the then calls for him to be removed from his job followed.

However in 2004, 20 years later, Trevor Philips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality and a former Labour

parliamentary candidate, asserted that children needed to be given a “core of Britishness.”

Multiculturalism, he argued, suggested “separateness.”

Almost 30 years have passed since Honeyford first made these comments yet have times really moved on?

If racism is still prevalent within schools it seems Britain has a long way to go before it really becomes a fair, multicultural state.

DEATH: Ray Honeyford, who sparked national outrage in 1984 has passed away, brought racism in education back to the fore

PROGRESS: With figures of racism staggeringly high, is Britain truly multi-cultural?

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A drama company will be giving secondary schools across Bradford an educational performance on road safety starting on Monday 9th February.

Bradford Council’s Road Safety Team has commissioned Tiny Giants Theatre Company to present performances and workshops to Year 9 students, with the performance ‘PERFECT’ tackling issues of seatbelt wearing and driver distraction.

‘NEW WHEELS’ is aimed at Year’s 10 and over, and addresses dangerous driving, driving whilst under the influence of drink or drugs, seatbelts, and driver distraction.

Both these performances are based on true stories and complement other work being carried out by the Council’s Road Safety Team in schools across the district to convey important safety messages.

‘Live a healthier lifestyle’

Eating a balanced diet and leading an active lifestyle is the best way to tackle obesity and live a healthier way of life, is the message being spread by a Kirklees council worker.

Tony Cooke, Head of Health Improvement for Kirklees Council said: “The council has a range of specialist services available to support adults who wish to make some positive changes which will ultimately mean that they will lose excess weight and reduce their risk of developing type 2 diabetes, heart disease and certain cancers.

“The latest government figures show that 61 per cent of adults in Kirklees have an unhealthy high weight. Whilst this figure is lower than surrounding local authorities there is a lot of work still to do.”

NEWSNIGHT: Mujeeb ur Rehman Bhutto had applied for asylum to avoid facing capital punishment in Pakistan

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A UKIP Commonwealth spokes-man, who played a key role in boosting the party’s multicultural credentials, was forced to resign after it was discovered that he had been the leader of a major kidnapping gang.

35-year-old Mujeeb ur Rehman Bhutto, from Leeds, has admitted being 'boss' of the kidnapping circle and also confessed that he had admitted charges in a UK court under a different name in 2005.

Suspicions arose when Bhutto mysteriously ‘vanished’ from the UKIP’s website just before the new year. Now UKIP have tried to distance itself from Bhutto, saying he has resigned of his own accord after he was confronted about his criminal history.

Bhutto, had been pivotal for UKIP in gathering a following from the Asian communities in Britain. He had even organised two visits to mosques in Rochdale and Bradford last year for UKIP leader Nigel Farage and helped canvass in a key by-election in which the party came close to gaining its first MP. But, in the latest embarrassment for the party, Bhutto has been exposed as being the ‘boss’ of a high-profile gang which struck in Karachi in 2004, in a kidnapping that netted him a £56,000 ransom payment.

The money was found hidden in Bhutto's bed in a house in Leeds,

Former UKIP party member Mujeeb ur Rehman Bhutto exposed as the head of a Pakistani kidnapping gang and he was forced to repay it when he appeared in court.

His apparent respectability as a politician went down the gutter when it was revealed that in June 2004, a gang, led by Bhutto, kidnapped Ahmed Naeem, the son of a wealthy businessman, at gunpoint from a car in Karachi.

Five days later Bhutto had flown to England. Police said that at one point, as he negotiated a ransom, he threatened to cut the victim’s head off and post it to his father, Mohammed.

He had personally collected the ransom at the Arndale shopping centre car park in Manchester.

Bhutto admitted charges in a British court and received a sevenyear jail sentence, but claimed asylum to avoid being deported back to Pakistan.

He was sentenced under the name Majeebur Bhutto.

Bhutto, from Leeds, told Newsnight he had admitted charges against him rather than risk being sent back to Pakistan

and hanged.

He said: “The evidence which was brought against me was from Pakistan. The allegation was simply because of political rivalry and because of my fathers highprofile.”

He claimed the case against him in Pakistan had been thrown out by the country’s Supreme Court.

However, senior Pakistani police sources told the BBC that Bhutto is still very much wanted.

The emergence of Bhutto’s past, comes just a few weeks after David Silvester, a UKIP councillor

in Oxfordshire, provoked ridicule by claiming that this winter’s floods were God’s revenge for the new law allowing gay marriage; and last summer, MEP Godfrey Bloom, who represents Yorkshire and The Humber, caused outrage when he said Britain should not be sending overseas aid to ‘bongo bongo land’.

More surprisingly, Bhutto had joined the Conservative party just months after he came out of prison and had defected to UKIP in 2011.

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Wakefield Council could help to support people recovering from substance and alcohol misuse with a new treatment service.

Cabinet has been recommended to approve plans to acquire a recovery-focused treatment service which will improve the health and wellbeing of people and families affected by drug or alcohol misuse.

The service will help those in treatment to find employment, or access education or training, which could reduce crime and make communities safer.

It will allow the Council to continue protecting the most vulnerable people, whilst providing the best value for money in times of financial pressure.

Cllr Pat Garbutt, Cabinet Member for Adults and Health, said: “The procurement of an integrated recovery-orientated treatment service will reduce the impact of addiction on families and contribute to the Health and Wellbeing Strategy for Wakefield.

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Offering Khalsa Aid VOLUNTEERS: Team members of Khalsa Aid delivered more than 50 tonnes of sand to some of the worst affected areas by the flooding

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An international Sikh charity has been providing assistance to the people most affected by Britain’s floods in areas across the south of England.

As the country was forced to withstand some of the heaviest downpours in recent history, towns and villages in some of the worst affected areas were all but submerged by water, with more bad weather predicted in upcoming days.

Khalsa Aid are one charity who are trying to fight the conditions head-on, and last week delivered tonnes of sand to areas in Berkshire, including 10 tonnes to the Colnbrook area and 40 tonnes to Datchet and Wraysbury.

Bal Kaur Sandhu of Khalsa Aid, who is coordinating the deployment in Berkshire, said: “Khalsa Aid are spreading their wings to other parts of the country.

“We recognise we need to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with our

communities and support them.

“We are also appealing for volunteers to assist Khalsa Aid – hands on assistance is needed in all three areas” Khalsa Aid was the first NonGovernmental Organisation to provide relief and hands on assistance to areas affected by the adverse weather conditions.

Since Friday 8th February, Khalsa Aid has been assisting the Somerset region by distributing sand bags, water, antiseptic fluid and other essentials including several dry suits for other community members assisting.

On Monday 10th February, Khalsa Aid volunteers from Bedford, Walsall, Birmingham and Leicester, who recently returned from working in the Philippines following Typhoon Haiyan, joined Chief Executive Ravi Singh to support the residents of Burrowbridge.

The team also rescued animals including Alijanon, a 10-year-old tortoise, who weighed five stones and is expected to live to over 100 years.

Ravinder Singh, from Khalsa

Aid, said: “Our volunteers are humbled by the immense support and messages of appreciation.

Thank you so much for your love.

“It is important that people listen to what the experts are saying and follow guidance.

Lessons will need to be learned, however now isn’t the time to blame but work as one community – together we will be stronger.”

Khalsa Aid is committed to selfless service through humanitarian aid work, drawing inspiration from Guru Gobind Singh Ji who taught to ‘recognise the entire human race as one’.

Volunteers are deployed immediately wherever in the world humanitarian aid is needed, providing relief assistance to victims of disasters, wars, and other tragic events around the world. Most recently Khalsa Aid has been assisting in Philippines, Haiti and India.

The UK registered charity was established in 1999 and is an international non-profit aid and relief organisation.

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ith one of the largest collections of wallpaper, tiles and paints in Yorkshire, Al Murad is your one stop shop for any DIY job.

Established almost 20 years ago, Al Murad has become a name which customers can trust, with outlets across Yorkshire and England, making it officially the largest independent tile and natural stone distributor and retailer in the country.

With a brand new showroom open now at the Bradford Lane premises, call in today to see a huge range of stunning tiles, with many exclusive to the store.

Not only can you browse hundreds of designs but customers can also take advantage of terrific offers which other retailers simply cannot keep up with. The ever popular white ceramic kitchen tiles have been slashed from £30sqm to just a third of that price at £10sqm (whilst stocks last) in February.

Likewise, for the elegant wallpaper finish, why not take advantage of the ‘buy two get one free offer’ on the luxurious black Seriano Alexandra design. At £22 a roll, the design is a must-have for the fashion-conscious who want to have that stylish look in their home, but hurry because the offer will not be around forever.

The newly-refurbished showroom has all the latest eye-catching designs, available at the most competitive prices around, with products available to take away today.

Trained staff are of course on hand to provide any advice that you may require, and make sure you ask about home delivery.

Al Murad specialise in particular in ceramic tiles and natural stone from all over the world, including countries such as Spain, Turkey and Italy, meaning you truly are spoilt for choice when it comes to deciding how to accessorise your home.

With up to 20 containers of the latest tile designs being imported into the UK every week, you can be assured that at Al Murad, customers are always the first to see the latest tiles which hit the market.

In store, an extensive range includes materials such as travertine, granite, marble, limestone, glass, porcelain, mosaic, slate, manmade stone and under floor heating as well as all the top branded adhesives and tile accessories.

Al Murad’s Bradford Lane store is open seven days a week yet with many offers expiring at the end of the month, make sure you head down soon to take advantage of some incredible savings.

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he “quenelle” gesture used by Nicolas Anelka has sparked controversy in the media and raised serious question marks for sponsors with lucrative agreements in place.

The ‘quenelle’ has been declared as an anti-Semitic gesture by many and was the trigger for Zoopla (co-owned by Jewish businessman Alex Chesterman) to publicly announce on the 20th January their intention to bring to an end their shirt sponsorship agreement with West Bromich Albion at the conclusion of the 2013-14 season.

Anelka defended the sign as being “anti-system” and “just a special dedication to my comedian friend Dieudonne”. What rather dents Anelka’s defence is that the said Dieudonne has previously been found guilty of making anti-Semitic speeches in France.

The FA investigation included the appointment of an expert to interpret the ‘quenelle’ gesture. His findings alongside the requisite FA disciplinary procedure returned a charge of misconduct which carried with it a 5 game suspension penalty.

The two high profile incidents involving John Terry and Anton Ferdinand and Luis Suarez and Patrick Evra where allegations of racist remarks made by Terry and Suarez prompted the FA to add specific regulations to the 2013-14 regulatory provisions. The Anelka episode has been the first instance that the FA has utilised the redrafted regulations. Anelka was charged with Misconduct under Section E of the FA Rules of Association.

Paragraph E3(1) under terms of General Behaviour stipulates a player must not:“act in a manner which is improper or brings the game into disrepute or use any one, or a combination of, violent

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conduct, serious foul play, threatening, abusive, indecent or insulting words or behaviour.”

An aggravated breach of regulation E3(1) compels the FA Regulatory Commission on finding a player guilty to impose a minimum suspension of five matches.

Anelka is not the first athlete to land themselves in hot water with sponsors; Tiger Woods and Lance Armstrong lost many of their headline sponsors following the former’s infidelity and the latter’s doping indiscretions.

Most sponsors attempt to proactively protect themselves from foreseeable breaches of ‘morality’ by having their legal advisors draft specific clauses into their sponsorship agreements with an athlete. ‘Disrepute’ or ‘Morality’ clauses are brought into play by a triggering event which brings the individual, club and/or sponsor into disrepute, or if an athlete’s behaviour falls below expected levels of morality.

Coca-Cola had the foresight to construct such a clause under which Lance Armstrong provided contractual warranties assuring Coca-Cola that he was free from performance-enhancing drugs. When the US Anti-Doping Agency announced that Armstrong had led “the most sophisticated, professional and successful doping programme sport has ever seen”, Coca-Cola were able to terminate their deal with the 7-times Tour de France winner without recourse to Litigation. In contrast the insurance company SCA Promotions are locked in a legal dispute with Armstrong’s legal team in an effort to recoup $12m in bonuses which the firm paid out for his wins between 2002-2004.

We at Blacks have a specialist Sports Law team dealing with all legal sporting matters.

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years ago Ali Baba Carpets set up its first store in the heart of Bradford and now, today, the company is still serving Yorkshire’s residents as its fourth store launched earlier this month.

Located on Whitehall Road, Leeds, the new establishment offers the same incredible value as its three predecessors, with quality carpets and flooring available to match every room.

There is no need to ‘look around’ when searching for your perfect flooring, especially now when there is an extra 20% off all carpets in the new store throughout February.

That means wooden flooring, commercial carpets, rugs, vinyl and even underlay can all be purchased at this special discounted price but hurry because these offers will

not last forever.

The team at Ali Baba are delighted to bring even more savings to the city of Leeds and promised customers an expert service every time they visited an Ali Baba store.

“It’s great to be able to open our second store in the city to accompany our Roundhay Road premises.

“We always try to meet our customers demand and after doing some market research it was clear that we had to open up here on Whitehall Road just to meet

the demand of our valued customers.

“As always, the service provided by our in-store staff is second to none and we pride ourselves on putting you, our customer, first.”

Ali Baba Carpets was set up by Mr F.D. Farooqi in Bradford more than four decades ago. The familyrun business has seen three generations work within the company which has become a household name across West Yorkshire.

With stores already operating from Great Horton Road and Leeds Road, in Bradford, as well as the Roundhay premises in Leeds, the new Whitehall Road store is the latest addition to a fast-growing brand.

Only top-of-the-range flooring is sold at all the stores, where fully trained staff are on-hand to assist and advise on the perfect way to meet your desired look.

Call in to one of the establishments today and take advantage of the seasonal discounts whilst you can, and begin saving with Ali Baba Carpets.

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or 15 years, A1 Regal Marquees has built up a reputation as one of the best marquee providers in Yorkshire and now, with a growing fleet of styles and designs, the company continues to provide the best products at the best prices around.

With the wedding season coming up, why not plan ahead and order your marquee from A1 Regal Marquees. Not only can they assist in the selection of that perfect venue accessory but also, due to their vast experience in the wedding industry, suggest tens of extra ideas, which no couple should overlook.

Whether you are having an intimate

dinner party or a wedding celebration, A1 Regal Marquees can cater for your every need with an array of marquees on offer. From 40 up to 200 people. Stand alone or wall-to-wall designs are available to meet every person's specification with added accessories available upon request.

Hard flooring, linings, tables and chairs, all help furnish the inside of the marquee, providing an elegant finish whilst heating equipment is also available for the colder days and nights.

All marquees are made of lacquered white PVC and conform to British Standard specifications, developed to withstand up to 60mph winds.

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erected on uneven land or hills, with the guarantee that they will remain strong in difficult conditions. The company has helped many people with difficult surface areas.

Whether you are a person of small means or millions; the company tries to assist everyone.

To continue to help their clients the firm is still investing in new, bigger marquees, furniture, décor and flooring. They also respect all their clients and their views and will always go out of their way to make their occasion a success.

Contact A1 Regal Marquees today for expert advice on marquee and best prices

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With multi-lingual lawyers (including Urdu, Punjabi, Mirpuri and Hindi), we’re happy to explain things as many times as needed. We’ve also produced simple flow charts for our service area, so you can see at-a-glance how a process generally works, though, of course, every case is different.

• Sensible pricing We believe legal support should be reasonably priced for everyone. We have fixed as many of our prices as possible. We do this because we want you to be happy and clear with what you are paying for the services you use from the outset.

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Curve’ ‘The opens in Bradford New lady’s gym launches at historic Mannigham site One of Bradford’s historic Victorian buildings finally completed its transformation into a state-of-the-art fitness facility last weekend as ‘The Curve’ officially opened in Manningham.

Based at the former site of Manningham Baths, the new lady’s gym opened its doors on Saturday where the local public and guests were invited to come down and have a look around the refurbished site.

As a protected building, the gym had to be designed around many of the building’s original features to coincide with the specification issued by conservationists and Bradford Council.

Mixing the latest modern equipment with many of the bath’s original features enabled the re-launch of the building which has already gathered recognition for its innovative design.

Amongst the guests on the launch day was the Bradford Lord Mayor, Cllr Khadim Hussain, who performed a special ribbon cutting before being given a guided tour around the gym.

Speaking about the site, the Lord Mayor praised the design and hoped it would provide a

much needed facility for women of the city.

“This place is superb,” he said.

“Not only can you still see a lot of the original features but you can see how they have been worked around to allow almost 200 people to come in at any time.

“It’s a huge project in terms of investing in the city area like this and it is all about preserving the history and architect here in Manningham as well as being a much needed resource for local women.

“In Bradford obesity and diabetes is a big issue anyway so a fitness facility like this one here can only help to tackle some of these issues.”

Amongst the facilities available at The Curve are: a reception area, beauty room, hairdressers, spa, gym, studio, spin studio, sauna, steam room, changing facilities, and a café, which all provide a one-stop shop for Bradford’s women.

Despite the ‘new-look’, the gym has been designed in such a way that it can be transformed back into a swimming pool upon request. A mezzanine has been erected in the former pool space to take advantage of the area available whilst original stalls and structures still remain, just

with a modern twist.

Councillor Arshad Hussain, Chairman of Bradford West Area Committee, was tasked with overlooking much of the project from day one and was delighted to give women a safe place to exercise.

He explained: “In places like Manningham, where there is a high Asian population, a lot of the women can become isolated in their home. This place is great

as it offers an exclusive place for women to workout.”

Adding: “The character of the building is still here and it is nice to see a building which is 100 years old still standing. It is very symbolic to have these original features still here blending in with the fantastic technology of the latest fitness facilities.”

Helen Moore, Club Manager at The Curve, was appointed in her role in December and added her praise to the project She said: “To actually see it transform from the old swimming pool to what it is today is amazing. I can just see it full of women working out in the pleasant environment that it is and I can’t wait to get started.”

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ARIES March 21st - April 20th You should enjoy a very popular phase in your life where everyone wants to invite you to parties. This is a good time for romantic liaisons.

Jupiter, the planet of excesses is associated with splashing out on luxury items which we do not want - take care or you will have things that you have no use for.

The iconic luxury motor sold for a staggering seven times its original estimate

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April 21st - May 21th Do not kid yourself that emotional problems can always be solved by material means. This only covers the cracks and does nobody any good in the end. Be prepared to confront the issues. If love has left you feeling rather dejected or cynical, it looks as though soon events will pull you out of this mood of despondency.

Decaying Mercedes 600 left in British garage for 30 years sells for £445,000

GEMINI May 22nd - June 21st It’s all about communications, as they take centre stage this week.

You’ll have to openly speak up about your wants and needs without fear.

Regarding love there will be a struggle between devotion and freedom. You need to feel completely consumed by the passion of your lover, and yet you need personal space to explore your own thing.

The Mercedes 600 six-door Landaulet was the car of choice for 20th century despots, with Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot and Idi Amin among notorious owners

CANCER June 22nd - July 22st It is certainly going to be a fortunate time for those already married or in an established relationship. The keynote is emotional enrichment through close interaction with a loved one. Facets of your life that have been a source of restriction and dissatisfaction will begin to loosen their hold.

A rusty Mercedes left gathering dust in a British garage for 30 years has sold for a staggering £445,000 almost seven times its estimate.

The Mercedes 600 six-door Landaulet was the car of choice for 20th century despots, with Saddam Hussein, Pol Pot and Idi Amin among notorious owners.

This 1971 model is regarded as the 'holy grail' of Mercedes but was previously owned by a Congolese head of state - who clearly didn’t care much for the luxury motor.

The highly-regarded vehicle left Africa and spent more than three decades decaying in a UK lock-up, until it was recently auctioned for a staggering sum.

The 20ft-long car was offered without reserve with a modest estimate of £60,000 to £100,000 by RM Auctions in Paris, and it soon sparked a bidding war.

The anonymous winning bidder paying a total of £442,400 after buyers' premium, but their spending on the car won’t end there.

Experts believe a full restoration of the classic car would cost more

than £800,000, due to the rarity of the vehicle.

At the top of the range were the 26 special 'Landaulet' models where the rear of the car would open and transform it into the world's ultimate convertible.

This made it perfect for parades and the 600 Landaulet became a favourite of some the world's most notorious leaders including Saddam Hussein and Pol Pot. When it was delivered in 1971, it was fitted with a nine-inch Sony TV and Becker Grand Prix radio with eight speakers.

It also had the comfort of optional armrests, the security of seatbelts, and the privacy of curtained windows.

The Mercedes is powered by a whopping 6.3-litre V8 engine which develops 245bhp.

This accelerates the 20-foot long limousine from 0-60mph in around ten seconds and top speed of more than 125mph.

The classic Mercedes 600, in its various editions, remains popular today with the likes of Jeremy Clarkson and Jay Kay among well-

known owners.

Stuart Haynes, service director at Mercedes specialist John Haynes Auto Technics, believes the £450,000 paid for the car could be a good investment.

He said: “It was the car of the moment, anyone who was anyone had a Mercedes 600. John Lennon owned one, so did Coco Chanel and many heads of state.

“The Mercedes 600 was the best car in the world when it was made and some people still argue it is. It is silent, smooth and quick. The presence shouts style and 'you've made it'.

“It is the best of the best and showcased what Mercedes could do.

“They are vastly complicated and expensive cars to restore because of the hydraulics involved.

“You'd probably be looking at in excess of 1m euros for Mercedes to restore it. They are few and far between.

“Fully restored it is a difficult car to value but you are getting a brand new Mercedes 600 and it will probably be a wise investment.”

Experts believe the restoration of the entire Mercedes could cost as much as £800,000

LEO July 23st - August 23rd If you are your own boss, then you can look forward to a fairly good week. Leos who face a strict schedule may find the next seven days a little frustrating, because this is a week where you will need a certain amount of personal space. You may be absorbing new ideas about how to create financial independence. Others may not understand, so you may have to keep your ideas to yourself.

VIRGO August 24th - September 23rd The outlook remains optimistic as developments point the way forward and bring you a sense of real achievement. However, this is not likely to be an easy-going week as demands on time and energy are going to be heavy. Relationships look great as Venus and Mars help to enhance your personal magnetism.

LIBRA September 24th - October 23rd Brilliant ideas come easily as you trust your higher self and allow thoughts to flow freely. You are able to embrace new opportunities and make positive changes in your life. Your efforts bring a greater stability to your work than ever before. This is an important development, considering all the changes occurring around you.

SCORPIO October 24th - November 22nd Now is the time to cultivate an easier relationship with life, get out and about, explore fresh possibilities and make new friends. Any effort to enrich your life by making changes is almost certain to work in your favour and you will be surprised how circumstances help you once you make the initial move.

SAGITTARIUS November 23rd - December 21st Your urge towards greater freedom and independence is very strongly accentuated. In intimate affairs, the prospect appears entirely favourable.

In work matters you can expect a progressive phase. Efforts to bring about desirable changes in your working life are more likely to be positive.

CAPRICORN December 22nd - January 20th Relationships are likely to widen your horizons, but exercise caution, because some opportunities won't prove quite as amazing as they first seem. Saturn in Scorpio, your solar house of work, will help you organise your priorities. Life now encourages you to move beyond your established boundaries of safety.

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January 21st - February 19th You are endowed with a level of determination that others sometimes find formidable. Once you set your mind on a goal you stay the course no matter what obstacles you encounter. Saturn's placement in your Solar 10th house often denotes a phase of restriction, sometimes frustration, in one's life.

PISCES February 20th - March 20th Whether you’re single or attached you’ll have to go through a lot, as deep psychological transformations are taking place in all types of relationships. No matter what your chosen path is, you’ll be recognised and rewarded for it. Don’t be afraid to experiment, trust your hunches, go with your gut feeling.

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No UK involvement in Operation Gold Star

British Prime Minister David Cameron has said that there was ‘absolutely no direct involvement’ of the UK government in the planning of the attack by the Indian Army on the Golden Temple in 1984.

Cameron issued a personal video message to the UK Sikh community last week whereby he insisted there was no involvement.

He said: “There is absolutely no evidence of the UK Government involvement in the operation itself.

“This conclusion has been made after a thorough search of some 200 files and over 23,000 documents. I want the dialogue between this government and the Sikh community to continue.”

He added: “British Sikhs have made and continue to make a vital contribution to our national life from serving in two world wars to running businesses and playing a massive part in our communities today. I never forget this. I am grateful for it.”

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Britain is mulling a draconian law that would ban foreigners with HIV and Hepatitis B from living or visiting UK. A bunch of over 20 conservative MPs have tabled a new clause (NC21) to the Immigration Bill which says "the Secretary of State may by order provide that persons who apply for immigration permission must demonstrate that they are not carriers of any of the prescribed pathogens listed Hepatitis B, HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) and such other pathogens as the secretary may prescribe by order".

The move has caused uproar in the UK with MPs being urged by civil society and activists.

The NAT (National AIDS Trust) has called on MPs to reject the amendment which would stop people living with HIV being issued visas to come to the UK.

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UK economic optimism soars Optimism about Britain's economy has reached its highest level since 1997 thanks to an unexpectedly strong recovery, boosting Prime Minister David Cameron's economic credentials ahead of a 2015 election, a poll showed on Thursday.

The poll, by Ipsos Mori, found one in four people trusted Cameron more than other political party leaders to manage the £1.54trillion economy, the sixth largest in the world.

By contrast, only 20 percent of

those polled said they trusted Ed Miliband, the leader of the opposition Labour party, to look after the economy.

On the issue of economic trust, Ipsos Mori said Cameron had increased his lead over Miliband to 22 percentage points from 14 points in May last year.

Thursday's poll found half of the 1,012 respondents believed the state of the economy would improve in the next year, while 24 percent thought it would get worse, giving a net economic optimism index score

of +26, the highest since 1997.

Britain's economy has staged an unexpectedly strong recovery after a long period of stagnation, with official data last month showing it grew last year at its fastest rate since the 2007 financial crisis.

The recovery has been a boom for Britain's two-party coalition government, though Cameron's Conservatives still lag behind Labour by up to seven percentage points in polls of overall voting intentions ahead of a national election in 2015.

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A mentally ill man who stabbed a police constable and two worshippers at a mosque was insane at the time of the offences, a jury has ruled.

Jurors deliberated over two days before returning verdicts of not guilty by reason of insanity on Mohamoud Elmi, who now faces a potentially indefinite period of detention in a secure hospital.

In reaching its verdicts, the jury panel, sitting at Birmingham Crown Court, decided that Elmi did acts which amounted to attempted murder and wounding.

A three-day trial was told the 32-yearold had previously been treated for mental health problems but was discharged into the community before the stabbings in Ward End, Birmingham, in June last year.

The trial heard how Elmi calmly walked away from a "frenzied" late-night attack on two fellow worshippers at the mosque to pay a visit to a wash-room.

Elmi, of Ward End Hall Grove, Washwood Heath, then returned to a prayer area at the mosque before repeatedly stabbing a police constable who attempted to subdue him with a Taser.

Comedian banned following Quenelle gesture A controversial French comedian at the centre of the Nicolas Anelka anti-Semitism row has been banned from entering the UK, the Home Office said.

Dieudonne M'bala M'bala previously announced he would visit London to support the West Bromwich Albion footballer, who faces a ban for performing the

comic's "quenelle" salute on the pitch, which is believed by some to be an anti-Semitic gesture.

The Football Association (FA) charged Anelka over the pose, struck after scoring against West Ham on 28th December, and he faces a minimum five-match ban if found guilty. Anelka has denied the charge and requested a personal hearing.

A Home Office spokeswoman said: “We can confirm that Mr Dieudonne is subject to an exclusion order.

“The Home Secretary will seek to exclude an individual from the UK if she considers that there are public policy or public security reasons to do so.”

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WELCOMED: Music sensation, Naughty Boy, is the latest ambassador of the British Asian Trust, set up by HRH The Prince of Wales, and performed on the night with Emile Sandé (image courtesy of Richard Lewis)

Royalty, ambassadors and donors come together for evening of entertainment More than half a million pounds was raised last week at a high profile fundraising dinner, as the British Asian Trust showed there is power in numbers as they raised funds for work in South Asia.

On Wednesday 5th February, chart topping music sensation, and latest British Asian Trust ambassador, Naughty Boy led the entertainment alongside his guest performer and Brit Award winning artist, Emeli Sandé, at The Victoria and Albert Museum.

As well as the crowd pleasing performance from Naughty Boy and Emeli Sandé, the event was attended by fellow British Asian Trust Ambassadors, Ikram Butt, Preeya Kaildas, Sanjeev Bhaskar OBE, Mishal Husain, Laila Rouass and Ronnie O’Sullivan, amongst others The Trust also welcomed three-time Wimbledon Champion, Boris Becker, who auctioned himself off for a game of tennis with Novak Djokovic.

The British Asian Trust was founded in 2007, at the suggestion of HRH The Prince of Wales. The Trust provides funding to support high impact charities within the areas of education, health and livelihoods in Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Hitan Mehta, Executive Director of

The British Asian Trust, was delighted with the success of the night, with the funds raised having the potential to help so many people in the future.

He said: “The night was a great success for the Trust; it allowed HRH The Prince of Wales to tell guests about the impact of his recent tour to South Asia and his visit to our projects.

“The dinner also gave us the opportunity to thank our supporters, and having our own Ambassador Naughty Boy entertain guests, made the evening feel all the more special.

To raise such a phenomenal amount illustrates how our donors come together to change lives for the better.”

The British Asian Trust has celebrated a successful few months with the event following HRH The Prince of Wales’s successful trip to South Asia last November.

During his time in India, The Prince visited a number of projects his Trust supports and saw first-hand how donor funds are being used to give a hand up rather than a hand out to those in need.

The Trust prides itself on its ability to transform the lives of beneficiaries, faced with poverty and situations often out of their control.

Scotland approve gay marriage

Scotland voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to allow same-sex marriages, becoming the 17th country to give the green light to gay marriage despite opposition from its main church organisations.

The Scottish government, which will hold a referendum on independence from Britain in September, said passing the same-sex marriage bill was an important step for equal rights and paved the way for samesex wedding ceremonies later this year.

The move was opposed by the Scottish Catholic Church and the Presbyterian Church of Scotland but the law will not compel religious institutions to hold ceremonies on their premises.

The approval, in a vote of 105 to 18 in Scotland's devolved parliament, follows similar legislation passed by the British parliament last year that allows same-sex marriage in England and Wales, with the first weddings to take place from 29th March.

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Cops hunting yobs who left a PIG’S HEAD on their patrol car Police are hunting sick yobs after a PIG’S HEAD was put on the bonnet of one of their patrol vehicles in a busy city centre.

The van was pulled up near Birmingham’s Bullring shopping centre while officers dealt with a shoplifter.

But they were shocked when they returned and found a severed pig’s head left on the bottom of the

windscreen between the wipers.

A spokeswoman for West Midlands Police confirmed the force had launched an investigation into the incident – which could be classified as a public order offence or criminal damage.

They added: “Police are investigating after the head of a dead pig was placed on a police vehicle in Birmingham City Centre.

“The incident took place as the police vehicle was parked at the Rotunda in New Street.

“Officers are actively looking at CCTV images to identify the person responsible.”

James Miles, 24, who was out shopping in Birmingham when he spotted the pigs head, said: “We couldn’t believe it when we came out of the Bullring and saw it on the police van.

“There was quite a crowd around it taking pictures and most people seemed to think it was pretty funny.”

‘Religious beliefs’ factor in death of Sikh motorcyclist

By Ashley Grint ashley@asianexpress.co.uk

A motorcyclist in Dewsbury, who was killed after colliding with a van, was not wearing a helmet at the time of the fatal incident, an inquest heard last week.

23-year-old, Kulraj Singh Kalsi, suffered a severe head injury after crashing his 125cc motorbike into the passenger side of a Volkswagen Caddyvan, on Thornhill Road, Dewsbury, in April last year.

Mr Kalsi was not wearing a helmet at the time as, because he was a Sikh, it would interfere with his religious beliefs as he would be forced to remove his turban.

By law, it is illegal for motorcyclists to travel without a helmet on yet Sikhs are exempt from such ruling to coincide with their beliefs.

The Dewsbury resident was thrown from his bike and went

‘airborne’ after the crash, an eyewitness told the inquest.

Investigators added that Mr Kalsi may have suffered from obstructed vision due to the wind and drizzle, which would have effected motorcyclists without helmets.

“At speed, wind and water in the eyes can blind you and I know to put the visor down,” Det Con Noel Lowden, who investigated the accident, told the inquest: “It’s a surmisation but that could have affected his vision.”

Coroner Mary Burke concluded that Mr Kalsi had died as the result of a road accident.

It is believed Mr Kalsi, who h a d been

riding close to the kerb, may have attempted to undertake the van resulting in the coming together of the vehicles – or had simply failed to see it ‘slow, indicate or turn into the complex’.

Ms Burke added: “There’s no evidence that suggests Kulraj was slowing down as the vehicle was beginning its manoeuvre and it’s not possible to say why he was in the position he was.”

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added Mr Kalsi, who had epilepsy, may have suffered a seizure before the crash.

“It may be that Kulraj became unwell and he suffered from some health issues that prevented him from slowing down,” she said. “But we can only postulate”.

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Relatives and community leaders say they are praying that a Briton was not behind a suicide bomb attack on a prison in Syria.

Abdul Waheed Majeed, 41, is suspected of being responsible for driving a lorry into a jail in Aleppo and detonating a bomb last week.

Officials have not confirmed the identity of the bomber amid reports that a UK jihadi, who used the name Abu Suleiman al-Britani, carried out the bombing.

It is thought to be the first time a Briton has staged a suicide attack in the war-torn state, where rising numbers of UK-born extremists have gone to fight.

Counter terrorism officers were searching Majeed's home in Martyrs Avenue in Langley Green, Crawley, West Sussex - the ex-home of schoolgirl Sarah Payne's killer Roy Whiting, according to neighbours.

Married father-of-three Majeed, known as Waheed, left Britain six months ago, telling his family he was going on a humanitarian mission to Syria.

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Hindu prayer room sought in all UK universities Hindus have asked for a designated “Hindu prayer room” at all the university campuses across Britain.

Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement, said that UK universities should respond to the requirements of their Hindu students to provide designated prayer-meditation hall for rituals, quiet reflection, festivals and spiritual exercise, which would help in their personal growth.

Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, pointed out that it would be a ‘step in the right direction’ in view of presence of a substantial number of Hindu students at UK universities, as it was important to meet the spiritual needs of these students.

Rajan Zed noted that UK universities needed to recognise the intersection of spirituality and education, which was important in Hinduism.

Zed suggested that these Hindu prayer rooms should have an altar containing murtis (statues) of popular Hindu deities like Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Krishna, Durga, Venkateshwara, Ganesha, Murugan, Saraswati, Hanuman, Lakshmi, Kali, etc.; besides being equipped with ghanta (big metallic bell hanging from the ceiling), dholak (two-headed hand-drum), Shiva-linga, etc.

Hinduism, the oldest and third largest religion of the world, has about one billion adherents and moksh (liberation) is its ultimate goal.

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UKIP see rise in backing UK Independence Party (UKIP) pushed Prime Minister David Cameron's ruling Conservative party into third place in a bellwether vote for a parliamentary seat, coming second behind the opposition Labour party.

The results, published on Friday, will worry Cameron since some polls show UKIP, which wants Britain to leave the EU, could split his party's vote in an election for the European Parliament in May and at a national vote in 2015.

Cameron, who has promised to try to reshape Britain's EU ties and give Britons an in/out EU membership referendum if re-elected next year, played down the result.

“By-elections are a time when people know they can send a message and make a protest without changing the government,” Cameron told Sky News.

“But those messages, those protests, I always listen to them very closely and I will do on this occasion too.”

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Prison for Prince Harry death threats CLAIMS: Ashraf Islam, born Mark Townley, was jailed after walking into a police station and claiming he intended to kill Prince Harry

Three-year sentence for man who threatened to kill a Royal

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THREATENED: The young Royal was targeted because he had been a captain in the British Army and served in Afghanistan

A British Muslim convert who told police he wanted to kill Prince Harry was jailed for three years last week after pleading guilty to threatening murder.

Ashraf Islam, 31, was told by the judge who sentenced him at Isleworth Crown Court that his plan had been ‘vague and unlikely to succeed’, but he nevertheless posed a danger to the public.

Police said Islam, who was born Mark David Townley and changed his name around 2010 after converting to Islam, walked into a police station in Hounslow, West London, and openly confessed to officers his intentions to endanger the life of the 28-year-old member of the Royal Family.

Police searched the hotel room, where he had just checked in after flying into London from Thailand, and seized his laptop. They found no weapon. Islam, originally from Belfast in Northern Ireland, had no fixed abode at the time.

Media reported that Islam had said he felt he had a ‘moral right to judge’ Prince Harry, a captain in the British army, because he disagreed with the

actions of the military.

Prince Harry, grandson to Queen Elizabeth and fourth in line to the throne, has carried out two tours of duty in Afghanistan, the most recent as an attack helicopter pilot.

Islam's defence lawyer told the court he had a personality disorder, according to media reports.

Islam made the threat on the day after soldier Lee Rigby was

murdered in broad daylight by two British Muslim converts on a busy street in southeast London close to an army barracks.

News of the killing and its aftermath dominated British media headlines for days. The killers, Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, were convicted of murder on 19th December and will be sentenced on Thursday 20th February.

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Conference of World Religions

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A historic conference was held last week as delegates from the world’s religions gathered at a special ceremony at Guildhall, London.

The ‘Conference of World Religions’ was organised by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community in the UK, as part of its centenary celebrations, with the theme being ‘God in the 21st Century’.

The World Head and Fifth Khalifa of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad, delivered the keynote address in front of 500 delegates including faith leaders from various countries, politicians, government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, academics and representatives of various Non-Governmental Organisations.

The conference also received messages of support from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Prime Minister David Cameron and several other dignitaries.

During the event the various faith leaders considered what role religion could play in today’s world and whether religion continued to be a force for good. The keynote address delivered by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad sought to answer these questions in light of Islam’s teachings.

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REPRESENTATIVES: Delegates form the world’s religions and guests from various official bodies attended the event at Guildhall last week

Hundreds of delegates unite to mark centenary celebrations of matters regarding all major religions and stressed that he condemned governments across the world for prioritising defence and military spending above and beyond social welfare and humanitarian projects.

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Foreign Office, was one guest on the day and praised the event for its overall message of peace.

She said: “It is testament to the openness, the pragmatism and the humility of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community that their flagship global event celebrated all faiths.”

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by Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad.

Earlier in the evening, The Khalifa held a series of private meetings with dignitaries and delegations from various countries and he also led the Maghreb and Isha prayers at the Guildhall.

Seven suspicious packages sent to army recruitment offices in England contained ‘viable devices bearing the hallmarks of Northern Ireland terrorism’, a spokeswoman from Prime Minister David Cameron's office said on Thursday.

The Irish Republican Army abandoned its armed struggle for an end to British control of Northern Ireland and unification with Ireland in 1998. But the government said last month that ‘terrorists’ were continuing to plan attacks with lethal intent.

“Seven suspect packages have been identified as containing small, crude, but potentially viable devices bearing the hallmarks of Northern Ireland related terrorism,” the spokeswoman said in a statement. “These have now been safely dealt with by the police and bomb disposal units.”

Thursday's statement followed a meeting of the government's Cobra emergency committee which was called after counter-terrorism police said suspicious parcels had been found at three army recruitment centres across southern England.

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Student dies after male paramedics reportedly refused access

Book on Hinduism to be destroyed

Thousands of Saudis vented their anger online over a report Thursday that staff at a Riyadh university had barred male paramedics from entering a women's-only campus to assist a student who had suffered a heart attack and later died.

The Okaz newspaper said administrators at the King Saud University impeded efforts by the paramedics to save the student's life because of rules banning men from

Penguin India pulls copies of scholar’s published work after lawsuit filed from Hindu nationalist group

By Anush Ansari anush@asianexpress.co.uk

Under pressure from a small Hindu nationalist group, Penguin India publishing house has pulled all copies of an American scholar's narrative history of Hinduism from sale in India and ordered for them to be destroyed.

The group Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti, or the Save Education Movement, had objected to religious historian Wendy Doniger's 2009 book, "The Hindus: An Alternative History" for describing mythological texts as fictional and, thus, hurting "the religious feelings of millions of Hindus," according to a lawsuit filed against Penguin India.

A leader of the group filed the lawsuit in 2010 against the Indian publishing house as well as the New York-based arm Penguin Group Inc. This week, Penguin India said that, as part of a case settlement, it was ordering all Indian sales of the book to cease and all copies to be pulped.

Bookstores in the capital of New Delhi have been refusing to sell any copies.

The action stunned writers and intellectuals in India, with many wondering how one of the world's oldest publishing houses had given in to demands by right-wing nationalists.

Some worried it was a sign of growing intolerance of dissent in India, with the country's main Hindu nationalist party, the Bharatiya Janata Party led by Narendra Modi, campaigning aggressively for this year's elections.

"You have not only caved in, you have humiliated yourself abjectly before a fly-by-night outfit by signing settlement," novelist and rights activist Arundhati Roy wrote in a letter to the publisher printed Thursday in the Times of India.

Roy, best known for her Booker-prize winning novel "God of Small Things," is also published

by Penguin, though she suggested she may rethink the relationship.

"You owe us, your writers an explanation at the very least," she wrote, saying the publisher's decision "affects us all."

An editorial in The Hindu

newspaper excoriated Penguin India, saying that in allowing itself "to be browbeaten into submission by a little-known outfit that saw no contradiction in its own sweeping slander of the author... is a comment on the illiberalism incrementally taking India in its sweep."

Doniger is not the first author to be silenced by religious or political conservatives in India.

In 2011, the state of Gujarat where Modi has held the top office for 12 years banned Joseph Lelyveld's biography on pacifist freedom fighter Mohandas K. Gandhi, after reviews suggested Gandhi had a homosexual relationship.

The same year, the Indian government banned visits by American writer and broadcaster David Barsamian, who has said he believes his reports from the disputed region of Kashmir may have irritated officials, though he has never officially been given a reason.

India-born writer Salman Rushdie's 1988 book "The Satanic Verses," has been banned in the country, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous.

Rushdie was forced to cancel a 2012 appearance at the Jaipur Literary Festival in the northern state of Rajasthan amid protests and threats by prominent Muslim clerics.

Doniger, a professor at the University of Chicago, said herself this week she was "angry and disappointed," as well as "deeply troubled by what it foretells for free speech in India in the present, and steadily worsening, political climate."

But she defended Penguin India, saying in a statement that the publisher "took this book on knowing that it would stir anger in the Hindutva ranks, and they defended it in the courts for four years, both as a civil and as a criminal suit," until being defeated "by the true villain of this piece — the Indian law that makes it a criminal rather than civil offense to publish a book that offends any Hindu."

being onsite.

According to the paper, the incident took place on Wednesday and the university staff took an hour before allowing the paramedics in.

However, the university's rector, Badran Al-Omar, denied the report, saying there was no hesitation in letting the paramedics in. He said the university did all it could to save the life of the student, who was identified as Amna Bawazeer.

Trapped civilians to be evacuated

PROTEST: Hindu nationalist group, Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti, demanded for the book to be destroyed

The Syrian government reached an agreement with the United Nations on Thursday to secure the evacuation of hundreds of trapped civilians from besieged parts of the central city of Homs, according to Syria's state-run TV. The TV did not give further details but quoted Homs Governor, Talal Barrazi, as saying the evacuation would take

place ‘very soon’.

Rebels who have held ancient parts of the city known as Old Homs have been besieged by government forces for more than a year.

The issue was one of the negotiating points during the weeklong peace talks in Geneva last month between the Damascus government and the Western-backed main Syrian opposition group.

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Deadline Passed Only 11% of chemical weapons removed from Syria

By Ashley Grint ashley@asianexpress.co.uk

Wednesday the 5th February was supposed to be the date by which Syria finally got rid of all their chemical weapons, yet reports released this week suggest that just over a tenth of the actual amount has gone.

11 per cent was the official figure given by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in regard to the quantity of weapons which have so far been removed from the war-ravished country.

After missing the first deadline in December, the February date seemed to simply pass by with the next June date looking ever more

EXCAVATE: Chemical weapons are being taken out of Syria at too slow of a rate, with another deadline passing last week

unrealistic.

With so many country’s now involved with Syria, the point of blame has often been passed around. Amy Smithson, a chemical weapons expert at the US Monterey Institute, told Reuters she believed that the unrest in the country could be settled sooner if other countries worked together.

She said: “The odds of Syrian compliance increase if Washington and Moscow speak with one voice, but that isn't happening at present.

“These two countries are both key to the potential success of chemical disarmament in Syria, not to mention a settlement to the overall conflict, so hopefully they will rapidly find a way to resolve

this impasse.”

The international community has invested facilities and money into the program yet for many experts not enough is being done

by Syrian officials to hurry up the procedure.

US Ambassador to the OPCW, Robert Mikulak, demanded immediate action be taken to get the weapons out of the country and believes that the resources are there to get the program moving.

“Syria has said that its delay in transporting these chemicals has been caused by 'security concerns' and insisted on additional equipment - armored jackets for shipping containers, electronic countermeasures, and detectors for improvised explosive devices,” he said.

“These demands are without merit, and display a ‘bargaining mentality’ rather than a ‘security mentality’.”

Georgy Mirsky, a Middle East expert at the Institute of the World Economy and International Relations in Moscow, struggled to defend Russia’s position in the affair, as the country is the biggest supporter of the current regime.

He said: “If it appears now that it was all in vain - that chemical weapons will remain in Syria and that Bashar alAssad is pulling a fast one - it will be President Putin who will be in a very bad situation indeed.”

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Parliamentary pepper spray attack

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SUSPENDED: L Rajagopal was suspended from the Congress Party after using pepper spray inside Parliament

An Indian MP was so convinced that a proposed plan to create a new state in the South Asian country would be detrimental, he used pepper spray in parliament to stop proceedings.

In protest to the creation of the new state – Telangana – Member of Parliament, L Rajagopal, took matters into his own hands by unleashing the dangerous chemicals in the lower house of India’s parliament.

Mr Rajagopal, of the governing Congress Party, smashed a glass and proceeded to use pepper spray on his colleagues as the Home Minister, Sushil Kumar Shinde, attempted to table the bill to create the new state.

Members who were in attendance were forced to leave the premises with some being taken to hospital for treatment.

Mr Rajagopal has been suspended by the party, alongside several other MPs, after leaving

the official building, alongside fellow personnel who exited coughing and wiping their eyes.

The Press Trust of India quoted Parliamentary Affairs Minister Kamal Nath as saying: “Members tried to use gas in the house... gas the house... I did not see, but I am informed that there was a knife, there was gas, there were other kinds of weapons.”

Never before has such an incident occurred directly inside the Parliamentary building and Mr Nath warned that it would only prove to be detrimental for the Congress Party.

“The circumstances and incidents which took place in the house are a big blot on our parliamentary democracy,” he added.

If the state of Telangana was to be approved it would comprise of 10 of Andhra Pradesh’s 23 districts including the biggest city of Hyderabad, with backers claiming the area has so far been ‘neglected’ by the government.

Hyderabad has been at the centre of much of the debate with many protesters arguing that the city’s major information technology and pharmaceutical companies would no longer provide capital to Andhra Pradesh in 10 years after the state creation.

Belgium passes bill allowing euthanasia for children

Parliament in Belgium has passed a bill allowing euthanasia for terminally ill children without any age limit, by 86 votes to 44, with 12 abstentions.

When, as expected, the bill is signed by the king, Belgium will become the first country in the world to remove any age limit on the practice.

It may be requested by terminally ill children who are in great pain and also have parental consent.

Opponents argue children cannot make such a difficult decision.

It is 12 years since Belgium legalised euthanasia for adults.

In the Netherlands, Belgium's northern neighbour, euthanasia is legal for children over the age of 12, if there is parental consent.

Conditions for euthanasia are: Patient must be conscious of their decision; request must be approved by parents and medical team; illness must be terminal and patient must be in great pain with no treatment available to alleviate their distress.

Under the Dutch conditions, a patient's request for euthanasia can be fulfilled by a doctor if the request is "voluntary and well-considered" and the patient is suffering unbearably, with no prospect of improvement.

One man in the public gallery of Belgium's parliament shouted "murderers" in French when the vote was passed, Reuters news agency reports.

Supporters of the legislation argue that in practice the law will affect an extremely small number of children, who would probably be in their teens.

The law states a child would have to be terminally ill, face "unbearable physical suffering" and make repeated requests to die - before euthanasia is considered.

Parents, doctors and psychiatrists would have to agree before a decision is made.

Protesters have lobbied politicians against the changes.

Church leaders argued the law is immoral.

Some paediatricians have warned vulnerable children could be put at risk and have questioned whether a child can really be expected to make such a difficult choice.

Last week 160 Belgian paediatricians signed an open letter against the law, claiming that there was no urgent need for it and that modern medicine is capable of alleviating pain.

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India to raise $9.9 billion in telecom spectrum auction India is set to raise about 611.61 billion rupees from the auction of telecommunication spectrum, Telecoms Minister Kapil Sibal said this week, far exceeding the government's target as it tries to narrow its budget deficit.

The government's initial target was to raise at least $1.8 billion from the auction.

Still the initial revenue would be much lower as companies need pay only a quarter to a third of the winning auction price upfront and the remainder through to 2026.

"The government is happy and we will see a smile on the face of the finance minister," Sibal told reporters.

Finance Minister P. Chidambaram faces a challenge to meet the budget deficit target for the current fiscal year ending in March amid a shortfall in tax collections and revenue receipts from divestment of stake in state companies.

Eight companies, including Bharti Airtel Ltd, Vodafone Group Plc's India unit and Reliance Industries Ltd, had applied to bid in the auction of 900 megahertz and 1800 megahertz band airwaves.

After 10 days of the sale, bids in the 900 megahertz band, which is being auctioned in just three cities, totaled about 236 billion rupees, said a government official who declined to be named as the auction results are not public yet.

Bids in the 1800 megahertz band were about 377 billion rupees, he said. Details on which companies won airwaves were not immediately available.

The stakes are especially high for Vodafone and Bharti which use 900 Mhz, but which will see their rights expire in November unless they buy in the auction.

India, which traditionally sold airwaves to run mobile services through a state-selection process, switched to an open auction in 2012 after a scandal over misselling of permits.

The government's spectrum auction in November 2012 and March 2013 flopped as most bidders stayed away from the sales, complaining the floor bid prices were too high. Eight bidders applied to participate in the current auction after the government sharply cut auction reserve prices.

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65 ‘Dangerous’ prisoners released in Afghanistan RELEASED: 65 of Afghanistan’s ‘dangerous’ detainees were released last week despite opposition to the ruling from the United States

65 former detainees in Afghanistan have been released from prison in the South Asian country despite United States officials labeling them as ‘dangerous’.

The men, who were believed to have been connected to the killing of Afghan civilians and coalition forces, were freed on Thursday 13th February.

More than two dozen of those were linked to the deaths of 32 US and allied troops and when detained were found with weapons and materials which could then be used to make improvised explosive devices.

“The release of these dangerous individuals poses a threat to U.S. coalition and Afghan national security forces as well as the Afghan population,” the U.S. command in Kabul said in a statement.

The move comes as current Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai refused to sign a security agreement which would have allowed a residual US force to stay in the country after

the current operation ends at the end of this year.

Army Colonel, Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokesman added his disbelief at the judgement which saw 65 ‘dangeorus’ men walk free.

He said: “These are bad men…They've got a lot of blood on their hands; a lot of blood.

“This is a step backward for the Afghan justice system. [Releasing the prisoners] is a disservice to Afghan citizens and a disservice to American troops who have fought and sacrificed on their behalf.”

Amongst those released was Nek Mohammad.

Mohammad coordinated rocket attacks against U.S. and Afghan forces and helped transfer money to alQaeda before being he was captured in May 2013 with artillery shells, mortar rounds and bags of fertilizer.

This latest mass release takes the total number of detainees released by the Afghan government to 625.

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‘RABH DISDA’ reborn

Gin & Rees collaborate once again with the amazing Aslam Ali on their latest offering 'Rabh Disda' originally by the mighty Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.

The East London studios, where the brothers Gin & Rees create their songs, has been a crazy hive of activity over the past couple of months.

Many a hit number has been delivered including Sanu Teh Changa, Soniyeh, Tenu Pyar Karan, DJ Chakhdeh Phatteh and the more recent Dil Di Rani.

Rabh Disda is taken from the forthcoming Aslam Ali debut album which will feature some amazing renditions of other great Nusrat tracks as well as a few surprises!

The album releases on 24th April 2014, whilst ‘Rabh Disda’ was released on 13th February on the RNC Records label and is available now via iTunes.

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Parineeti Chopra is all smiles…

‘Hasee Toh Phasee’ promises to be a rom-com with a difference, bringing together a star cast of emerging acting talent and accomplished film professionals, both in front of and behind the camera.

Directed by Vinil Mathew, the film is about the

relationship between the quirky, rebellious Meeta (Parineeti Chopra Ishaqzaade), and the mischievous Nikhil (Sidharth Malhotra – Student Of The Year) struggling with their respective families to fit in.

Nikhil bumps into Meeta

We caught up with the beautiful Parineeti Chopra about the film and her role.

Q: You have experimented with your look in ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’. It must be very exciting for you?

A: Absolutely, there was a great creative team of talented make-up artists behind us and they have worked so hard to make me look stunning in front of the camera. And I can assure you that when you see the film you will get to know a whole world of madness that’s what the film is all about. There is a big surprise for the audience.

Q: How much similarity is there between you in real life and your on-screen character in the film?

A: Almost no similarity. I had to do a lot of acting in ‘Hasee Toh Phasee’. The only thing I could draw upon was the energy I have in my life and what was required of my character in the film. I had to undergo workshops and it took me about 15-20 days to be absolutely ready before going to the set to shoot. It was quite technical to play this role.

Q: You have lost oodles of weight. How did you do that?

A: See, I am losing weight because I have become very busy in life. I have to work so hard that I don’t have time to sit at home and eat a lot of food. That is why I am not getting fat. But yes, now I can see that people are commenting that I look better these days.

So I want this to continue, as it’s making me feel so lively!

Q: Share some beauty tips with us?

A: First, sleep well for at least eight hours a day.

Drink a lot of water, moisturise your face well, be happy from the inside, eat only home-cooked meals and refrain from anything that could potentially make you unhealthy.

Q: Tell us about your co-star Sidharth Malhotra?

A: In Sid’s case when he smiles, girl’s ‘phas jati hai’, unlike what happens normally that a girl traps a boy with her smile. For Sid it’s just the opposite, even on set. And he just roams around acting modest.

on the occasion of her sister Deeksha’s wedding, while Meeta is on the run.

He falls in love with Meeta’s sister Karishma on the same day.

The film jumps to the eve of Nikhil and Karishma’s engagement. Karishma’s wealthy father, Devesh Solanki, does not approve

of Nikhil as he finds him to be a no-good young man. On the day of his engagement, Nikhil promises Karishma that he will prove himself to be worthy of her within the next seven days.

In an attempt to please Karishma he decides to let Meeta live in the flat

above his own house, with his crazy extended family.

During the course of Meeta’s stay the pair become close and open up to each other.

In the midst of this confusion, the truth about relationships is unfolded; the strength of unions is tested and love triumphs.

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Captivating bollywood with Punjabi lyrics

Captivating bollywood with Punjabi lyrics Amar is currently working with yet another renowned producer Jim Beanz on her next studio album.

Amazing vocal talent isn’t all that Samar and Amar have in common.

Both stars were born with music in their genes. The release sees music legends Amarjit Sidhu and Mangal Singh reunite vicariously through their respective children, Samar and Amar!

western influences, Jad Tak Hai Jaan is the true epitome of the richness of Indian culture, which is reflected in the video. Filmed entirely in the exotic streets of Mumbai, the video relates a traditional love story.

Renowned director Ranjit Swamy, who has previously worked with big names such as 'Arminder Gill' and 'Honey Singh', was commissioned for the shoot.

“The track is quite different from what I’ve done before but I’ve really enjoyed being part of the process of putting it together. It’s been a lot of fun and I can’t wait to see what the reception will be like.”

Duo Samar and Amar have just unleashed their powerful single 'Jad Tak Hai Jaan'. The track sees the pair showcase their smooth vocal talents, complementing each other perfectly for this romantic ballad.

Jad Tak Hai Jaan takes the form of a traditional Bollywood classic, but with a twist. Using exclusively Punjabi lyrics set to a captivating melody, Samar and Amar have maintained the best of Bollywood whilst staying true to their Punjabi heritage.

Birmingham-based Samar has grown up surrounded by music.

Having achieved great success in his youthful career, penning his own hits such as 'Mukhara' and 'Tu Hi Tu', Samar is back to take on a softer, more mellow tip with Jad Tak Hai Jaan.

No stranger to the industry, Amar catapulted to fame as a teenager with her hit single 'Tu Hai Mera Sanam', a Hindi cover of Dolly Parton’s I Will Always Love You (also famously covered by Whitney

Houston).

The talented singer/songwriter quickly became known for her sultry voice, Hindi lyrics and classical singing style and carved a successful career in music.

Amar has worked with many notable names such as the superproducer Timbaland who has created masterpieces for the creme de la creme of the industry including Justin Timberlake, Missy Elliott, Nelly Furtado, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Madonna, 50 Cent and Jenifer Lopez, to name just a few.

Inspired by the hit Bollywood film of a similar title, Jad Tak Hai Jaan was conceptualised by both Amarjit and Mangal. Commenting on the birth of the song, Amarjit says: "Mangal and I went to watch Jab Tak Hai Jaan in the cinema. As musicians we enjoyed the music but felt that there should have been a big number which every Yash Chopra film has. We both sat down and put our thoughts together and came up with the melody. After that, we showed both Amar and Samar who loved it and wanted their own input."

Deliberately steering clear of any

Speaking about the collaboration, Samar says: "The track is quite different from what I’ve done before but I’ve really enjoyed being part of the process of putting it together. It’s been a lot of fun and I can’t wait to see what the reception will be like."

Amar adds: "It’s been an absolute pleasure to work with Samar for the track. It has a real romantic vibe, but we’ve made it different with our use of Punjabi lyrics, which is something I hope everyone will appreciate."

Jad Tak Hai Jaan is out now on the Moviebox label.

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07/03/2E DATE: 014 More than 30 years before the events of '300', the Greeks and Persians clash at the pivotal Battle of Marathon.

Still a young man, the future Persian God King Xerxes (Rodrigo Santoro) mourns the death of his father as he falls under the influence of feisty, ambitious naval commander Artemisia (Eva Green).

She witnessed her entire family being slaughtered and now burns for vengeance.

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Adapted from Frank Miller's latest graphic novel, the bloodsoaked 'Rise of an Empire' is told in the same vivid, kinetic style as its predecessor.

It also unfolds on a larger canvas, taking in battles before, after and parallel to those of '300'.

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In November 1942, the Nazis and Red Army are engaged in a brutal fight for control of the Soviet city of Stalingrad. Such is the ferocity of the close quarters combat that much of the city has been reduced to rubble.

Now the Russians are launching a counter-offensive across the Volga river. Six soldiers led by Gromov (Pyotr Fyodorov) find themselves holed up in a house occupied by 18-year-old 15 CERT Katya (Mariya Smolnikova).

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RIDE ALONG STARRING: KEVIN HART, ICE CUBE, JOHN LEGUIZAMO, BRUCE MCGILL DIRECTOR: TIM STORY GENRE: ACTION, COMEDY A rookie cop's training day spirals out of control CERT in this action-packed buddy comedy starring Kevin Hart and Ice Cube. Ben Barber (Kevin Hart) is a wisecracking video game junkie and aspiring cop who's dating the lovely Angela Payton (Tika Sumpter).

Now he's finally been accepted by the police academy and is keen to propose. But Angela says she'll only marry him if he secures the approval of the other man in her life - her brother James (Ice Cube).

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A rib-tickling mismatched buddy action-comedy in the tradition of '48 Hrs', 'Ride Along' also features the great Laurence Fishburne as underworld kingpin Omar.

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The widowed Begum of Mahmudabad (Madhuri DixitNene) has announced a festival of poetry at her mansion. The grapevine suggests she's looking for a new husband - preferably one literary and poetic talents.

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FILM: Jai Ho DIRECTED BY: Sohail Khan GENRE: Action, Drama STAR CAST: Salman Khan, Tabu, Danny Denzongpa, Daisy Shah, Nadira Babbar Salman Khan stars as a honest man waging war on corruption and injustice in this explosive Bollywood action-drama. Jai (Salman Khan) is an incorruptible former army officer with a simple philosophy.

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Realising the terrible consequences this could have for the rest of their family, his sister Geeta persuades Jai to make peace with his enemy.

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Fatima, a committed schoolteacher living the cosmopolitan high life in Karachi, is devastated when her nanny, Nusrat, inexplicably disappears.

Though her friends and family beg her not to disturb the status quo and confront the powerful feudals in Nusrat’s village, Fatima travels there to investigate.

Will the trials and tribulations deter Fatima's resolve? Will the quest

challenge an already complicated romantic relationship? What all shall Fatima have to sacrifice in the search for answers?

Based on a true story this is a film that tackles issues such as feudalism, poverty and schooling. A gripping tale that has its fair share of twists and turns but which ultimately sends out both a powerful and positive message.

To date the film has received great acclaim and has picked up numerous awards along the way. The film is being screen at Odeon Cinemas across the country for one week only.

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A kidnapped rich girl forms an unexpected bond with her captor in this Bollywood romantic drama from the director of 'Jab We Met'.

A carefree young city girl (Alia Bhat) is driving along the highway with her fiance.

But her life changes in an instant when she's abducted by a rough gang of rural criminals.

The kidnappers quickly discover that their hostage is the daughter of a prominent industrialist with powerful

political friends. But their leader (Randeep Hooda) is undeterred, insisting that they go ahead with their plan.

As their van continues on its lengthy journey, passing through some spectacular landscapes, the girl begins to feels more free than she ever did before. Indian writer/director Imtiaz Ali made his name with the hit 'Jab We Met'.

He casts Randeep Hooda of 'Once upon a Time in

Mumbaai' fame opposite rising star Alia Bhat in this romantic exploration of Stockholm Syndrome. Music is by A.R. Rahman.

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Sheer elegance Ferrari-lovers will be in for a treat with the new V8 Ferrari California T, boasting a turbocharged engine which delivers intense sound and vivid acceleration whilst maintaining ultimate elegance from the top marquee.

Whilst the California T bears enhanced standards of innovation, it still features all the essential characteristics that have distinguished every California model since the 1950s.

The latest model, which will be

Ferrari prepare to unveil the new intense turbo-charged California unveiled at Geneva in March, brims with a host of new solutions, not least of which is its 8-cylinder turbo engine.

Maranello’s engineers have created an entirely new power unit which delivers absolutely superb levels of performance, blistering

pick-up and the most exhilarating soundtrack any turbo has ever yielded.

With torque up by 49% and fuel consumption down 15%, the direct-injection, 3855 cc turbo 8cylinder delivers 560 cv at 7500 rpm - figures that give it

acceleration over the 0 to 100 km/h in just 3.6 seconds.

The California T boasts striking standards of innovation while retaining signature features such as the successful 2+ concept, a refined cabin and, of course, the retractable hard top (RHT) which

transforms it from a chic coupĂŠ into a sleekly sophisticated spider in a mere 14 seconds.

One major challenge though, involved in the design of the California T was to guarantee it a typically intense, exhilarating Ferrari engine sound.

This was achieved through meticulous design work and the use of special manufacturing techniques for essential

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components, such as the flat-plane crankshaft and the three-piece cast exhaust manifold and turbo housing.

The engine produces a powerful, engaging sound during both the intake and exhaust phases, becoming even more potent as engine speed increases. This the first time a result of this kind has ever been achieved with a turbo engine.

The California T delivers true sports car dynamics too, thanks to reduced steering wheel activity and improved steering response to driver input, courtesy of a new steering box and suspension set-up.

New springs and latest-generation Magnaride dampers (which respond 50% faster), combined with body motion accelerometers, reduce roll and pitch for more precise handling whilst still guaranteeing an incredibly comfort-able ride.

The California T also has the latest evolution of the F1Trac traction control system for maximum acceleration out of corners, thereby underscoring the sportier side of its personality.

The California T’s architecture, controls and new 8-cylinder engine ensure consistently intense driving pleasure in challenging driving conditions as well as

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making the car fun to drive even in more relaxed situations, very much in the Grand Tourer tradition.

The CCM3 carbon-ceramic braking system is also extremely efficient with new composite discs and pads. The brakes are integrated with the ESP 8.0 premium which controls the high performance ABS for a short 100 to 0 km/h braking distance of just 34 metres.

Considerable attention was paid to the

design, maintaining the outgoing model’s overall dimensions while ensuring that the California T has a new, individual personality. The sleek proportions were penned by the Ferrari Styling Centre in collaboration with Pininfarina and are very much in keeping with the Ferrari frontengined ethos.

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Naughty but nice…

The V8 of Bentley’s Continental GT S gives its W12 a run for its money

POWER: The V8 Bentley Continental GT Sport delivers 521 bhp

With motoring journalists claiming that this is the best Bentley Continental yet, with minor tweaks, it has actually transformed the GT into a far more exciting and rewarding car to drive.

The Continental GT remains a top choice for Bentley lovers as a wellheeled, striking-looking, mostly bespoke, exceedingly comfortable two-door sport coupe.

Hand-built in Crewe, England, the recently refreshed GT and its more powerful GT Speed sibling are just about guaranteed to get their drivers pole position at any valet.

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horsepower 4.0-liter twinturbo V-8 or a 567horsepower 6.0-liter twin-turbo W-12.

Where around 65% of Bentley Continental GT buyers would opt for the ‘bigger is better’ mindset and go with the 6.0-litre W12 model rather than the newer, more efficient. But that could change with the arrival of the new V8 S model.

The V8 S Bentley Continental GT lifts performance of the 8cylinder car to pretty much the same level of the flagship 12-cylinder version, but adds more sporting intent.

Bentley has upped the power of the twin-turbo V8 by 21bhp to 521bhp, so the 0-62mph time drops from 5.0seconds to a W12 matching 4.7 seconds, while top speed rises from 187mph to 191mph. The stats may not seem jaw-droppingly quicker, but it’s the manner in which the S goes about its business that makes this yet another brilliant new

Bentley.

As well as the increase in power, torque is up to 680Nm, while the car sits 10mm lower on a chassis tweaked for greater agility, with steering adjusted for greater feel.

Visual tweaks are subtle with a black composite front splitter, side skirts and rear diffuser, gloss black for the grille and a V8 S badge on the front wing.

Spending an extra £9000 on the GT gives a worthwhile aural thrill as it delivers a very confident roar under full acceleration that will have you scouring the landscape for tunnels just to hear the noise echo back at you.

The standard four-wheel drive provides immense security with huge reserves of grip, while the revised steering is more responsive than ever.

This isn’t a car with the reactions of a Porsche 911 Turbo, but certainly is fit for everyday driving with a hint of naughtiness when needs be.

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INDIA: The Indian Olympic team was able to compete under their country’s flag in London 2012, and can now do the same in Sochi in the ongoing Winter Games

SOCHI: It wasn’t only India’s flag which didn’t show up at the opening ceremony

India return to Olympic fold The Indian flag will fly once more in the Olympic Games after the country’s governing body was reinstated last weekend.

In 2012, the Indian Olympic Association (IOA) was suspended by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) after it was deemed that the voting procedure had been tainted with officials appointed to the association who had previous corruption charges.

However, following a fresh ‘fair’ vote in the weekend, the IOC has immediately reinstated the country to the Games.

The new IOA board is led by world squash chief, and Indian national, N Ramachandran, which meets international requirements that no person convicted or facing corruption allegations can be included.

Previously, the board’s president had been Abhay Singh Chautala, who was handed the position after running unopposed in December 2012.

Mr Chautala had been sentenced to 11 months in jail the previous year for corruption charges before he was released on bail. Former secretary-general, Lalit Bhanot,

was also linked to similar charges.

The lift on the ban is the first of its kind to happen during an Olympic Games, with three Indian athletes currently competing in Sochi, Russia.

IOC spokesman, Mark Adams, explained what the decision meant for the athletes. “The decision means Indian athletes can compete for their national Olympic

REPRESENT: Indian Luger, Shiva Keshavan, will be allowed to compete under his national flag in Sochi

committee. They can walk behind their national flag at the closing ceremony,” he said.

“The Indian flag will be raised in the [Sochi Winter Games] village, at a time to be announced.”

IOC member Randhir Singh

also welcomed the decision and said it was ‘great news for Indian sport’.

“It's time everyone understands that the Olympic charter is supreme. It is important that sport is run well and tainted officials are kept out in a country of 1.2 billion in which 40 per cent is youth,” he told the Associated Press news agency.

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Khan crushes ton ace Croes Bol continues

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2014 looks set to be another bright year for Bolton’s rising star Haroon Khan, as he picked up a dazzling points victory over Francis Croes last week. super-flyweight The competitor dominated against his 25-year-old opponent in Sheffield, marching to his fourth straight victory.

From the get-go Khan was on top, using his fast footwork and counter punching to offset his challenger’s come-forward style. As the fight progressed it was Khan landing the more hurtful and telling blows pushing back the unrelenting Croes.

Croes proved to be a very game opponent but as the bout

BOOM: Haroon Khan clinched a points victory over the Middlesbrough boxer, Francis Croes, stretching his unbeaten run to four

continued it was Khan who was becoming the aggressor in the fight as he wore down the Middlesbrough man, landing some beautiful combinations in the fourth and final round that stopped Croes in his tracks.

The 22-year-old’s hand speed was notable throughout the fight as he picked off the slower Croes the more the fight went on. In the end, though, it went to the scorecard with Khan winning a one-sided victory 4036.

It was a very mature display

by Khan who showed the progress he continues to make under trainer Oliver Harrison, with the youngster delighted with his night’s work.

“It was a really good fight and I’m happy with how I did in there,” said Khan.

“Croes was a tough opponent and he kept coming forward which forced me to use my boxing skills and counter him.

“The more the fight went on, though, I felt I was taking over and you could see that. It was my best performance since turning professional and I think that’s just a reflection of the work I’ve been doing with

Oliver Harrison because I’ve been learning so much.”

The 2010 Commonwealth Games bronze medalist was delighted to begin 2014 in the way he left the previous year and is looking to press on as he builds up his record of wins.

“This is going to be a big year for me,” Khan explained. “I want to get my head down, keep learning in the gym and get as many fights under my belt as possible.

“The last year I’ve picked up so much since turning professional and I want to keep that up.

“I’m going to be very active in 2014 and I have no doubts that it’s going to be a great year for me because I’m eager to learn and improve and I know I have the right trainer and team around me to do that.”

Trainer Oliver Harrison was also pleased with how his young prospect performed. “Haroon did very well in there,” he said.

“I scored him 8 out of 10 which is very good in my book because I don’t usually give such high ratings. I definitely think it was his best performance since he turned pro and I’m very happy with the progress he keeps on making in the gym. If he keeps learning he can go very far in the sport,” he said.

Khan is hoping to fight again in the near future with an announcement due soon.

Pietersen becomes England’s ‘outcast’ signed up in IPL auction

Kevin Pietersen may have felt rejected when he was all but cast out by England selectors yet the big hitting batsman is likely to be feeling better this week after a huge transfer in the Indian Premier League (IPL) auction.

KP will represent the Delhi Daredevils in the 2014 campaign after being bought for

£880,000, despite being expected to fetch more at the official auction.

With the season set to begin in March, Pietersen will join up with his team for the full campaign as he no longer has international commitments, which had initially seen the Delhi side release him at the end of last season.

Writing on his official Twitter account following the draft, Pietersen wrote: “So happy to be back with the Delhi family!

Lovely start to the day.” Adding in a tweet directly to the Delhi Daredevils: “So good to be back guys…see you soon!”

Pietersen has a credible record in the IPL format having played 21 matches in total,

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DRIVERS: Facu Regalia and Daniel Abt will join the new Force India GP2 team for the upcoming campaign

Force India launch GP2 team

F1 side welcome new youthful look The new-look Sahara Force India continued its changing image last week, as it expanded its driver development programme by teaming up with Hilmer Motorsport to create Force India’s official GP2 team.

The new partnership will see 22-year-old Facu Regalia and Daniel Abt, 21, race on the GP2 grid in the distinctive colours of Force India in the Hilmer Motorsport GP2 car.

The development programme expands on the success of Sahara Force India’s reserve driver programme, which has already helped progress several drivers to Formula One race seats.

It also represents a logical addition to the team’s ‘One From A Billion’ talent hunt, which helped unearth a selection of

young Indian karting talents. The most successful candidate has been Jehan Daruvala, a 15-yearold from Mumbai, who graduated into the team’s Academy last year and was crowned British KF3 Junior champion.

Dr Vijay Mallya, Team Principal and Managing Director of Sahara Force India, was delighted to have established the new team.

“As a team we’ve always placed great emphasis on nurturing young drivers so I’m delighted to announce our partnership with a GP2 team,” he said.

“It’s the logical next step as we look to bring through the next generation of drivers and provide them with the opportunity to showcase their talent.

“Our presence in GP2 moves us closer to having a holistic

a Daredevil registering 634 runs at an average of 42.26.

The Englishman is just one of the big names expected to move during the auction this week with fellow, former and current internationals, Ian Bell, Ravi Bopara, Jade Dernbach, Craig Kieswetter, Luke Wright, Dimitri Mascarenhas, Rikki Clarke and Simon Jones expected to go under the hammer in Bangalore.

India's Yuvraj Singh was bought for the highest sum, moving to the Royal Challenger Bangalore for £1.37m.

Australia's Mitchell Johnson moved for £640,000 to Kings XI

Punjab at Wednesday’s auction whilst fellow Australian, David Warner was snapped up by Sunrisers Hyderabad for £540,000. Both players provided big problems for the English national team in the Winter tour down under, with Johnson regularly tearing apart the Three Lions batting order.

Elsewhere, other big names which moved on Wednesday were South Africa's Jacques Kallis, who was signed for £540,000 by Kolkata Knight Riders; and India's Virender Sehwag, who moved for £310,000 to Kings XI Punjab.

development programme to school drivers from grassroots karting to the higher echelons of professional motorsport.”

Franz Hilmer, Team Principal and Managing Director of Hilmer Motorsport added: “We are very happy about the collaboration between Hilmer Motorsport and Sahara Force India Formula One Team.

“I’ve had an association with Sahara Force India for ten years and we are looking forward to working together on a sporting level going forward.

“With Facu Regalia and Daniel Abt we have two very talented young drivers with the potential to progress to Formula One. We will do our best to support them on their way to the pinnacle of motor racing.”

Taking up the sport, simply because his friend wanted somebody to accompany him to training, the 24-yearold has never looked back from his first day and is now predicted a medal finish at the national championships, in Walsall, in April.

At 24-years-old he was somewhat of a late starter in the martial arts field yet due to ‘hard-work’ and ‘dedication’ he was selected by the Yorkshire club to be one of their representatives at the prestigious tournament.

Trained by Sensei Mumtaz Khan, a fifth degree blackbelt with over 16 years experience, Mohsin has committed his own time, training four times a week, and believes he has a good chance of coming away from the upcoming tournament with a medal.

“I am really looking forward to it now because, at the moment, the way things are going, I am predicted a medal which would just be amazing,” he said.

“It is the first time my club has taken part in the championships so if I could come back with anything it would be really rewarding. Gold is obviously the ultimate aim and would help give me a big step towards my goal of representing GB on the international stage.”

The International Ju-Jitsu Championships are set to be held in Denmark in the autumn and Mohsin

says his target is to be included in the GB squad who will make the trip to Scandinavia.

He added: “To think I only started a couple of years ago, and didn’t really contemplate going further than regional’s, an international tournament would just be a dream come true.”

If successful in the British Championships, the GB squad is likely to be the next step for the local rising star.

Proving that you don’t have to take up Ju-Jitsu in your youth, Mohsin also urges all interested prospective martial artists to get involved.

“Ju-Jitsu may not be the most well known or publicised sport in the world but once you get involved, it is certainly one of the most rewarding,” he said.

“The main thing it teaches is selfdiscipline so it isn’t a case of who can hit the hardest or who is the biggest, even our smallest competitor could beat the tallest.

“I would recommend it to anyone, with clubs always happy to take on beginners at any age. I only started when I was 21 and have never looked back.”

To keep up to date with Mohsin’s progress in upcoming tournaments, including the British Championships on the 5th April, follow him on Twitter at @deejay_adeeb

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COMPETITOR: Mohsin Hussain only took up JuJitsu three years ago after accompanying a friend to training, yet now has the chance to clinch a Gold Medal at the British Championships in April

Local Ju-Jitsu star targets British Championships

By Ashley Grint ashley@asianexpress.co.uk

A martial arts ace from Bradford is hoping to prove that it is ‘never too late to take up his beloved sport’ later this year as he competes in his first ever British Ju-Jitsu Championships.

Despite only starting the sport three years ago, Mohsin Hussain has already become one of the top competitors at the Onna JuJitsu club in Bradford.

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