Business leaders have called for international students to be excluded from government immigration targets, saying they are "vital to the future prosperity of the UK."
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5th Dec 2023 | Updated at 11:38pm 5th Dec 2023
Leading playwrights to contribute to auction supporting refugees
Leading UK playwrights Tanika Gupta and Anupama Chandrasekhar are making a significant contribution by donating first editions of their work to an historic auction aimed at raising funds to support refugees in the UK.
“Enterprise and hard work at the heart of the immigrant story”
As the Labour party prepares for next year's general election, with leader Sir Keir Starmer currently reshuffling the Cabinet, they celebrated ‘Britain’s global bonds and bridges’ at an evening reception for the diaspora in a café in South London.
CF India hosts fundraiser dinner in Brum
Conservative MP Dean Russell told attendees at a fundraising dinner in Birmingham, “When Labour see a problem, they exploit it. When we see a problem, we fix it”. The event was organised by Edgbaston Conservatives in partnership with Conservative...
Uganda fundraiser event in Leicester
A fundraiser event in Leicester next month to mark the 50th anniversary of the Ugandan exodus is expected to bring together scores of people from home and abroad.
Leading EdTech business launches franchise in the UK following recent global success
The British Youth International College (BYITC), the Glasgow-headquartered but globally operating educational technology (EdTech) business, has launched its successful franchise model in the UK.
University of Glasgow project investigating the effects of Covid-19
A project at the University of Glasgow that is aiming to better understand the effects that Covid-19 infection has on blood vessels and blood pressure has received a grant of £250,000 from national charity Heart Research UK.
770,000 people in England unable to speak English well
In an interview, the communities secretary, Sajid Javid revealed that 770,000 people living in England speak little or no English at all, and warned that up to 70% of them are women from the Bangladeshi and Pakistani communities.
Sigma sponsors transformation of Community Pharmacy 2025 vision
A donation from Sigma Pharmaceuticals plc is funding a three year PhD scholarship aimed at developing a coherent and transformative vision for English community pharmacy in 2025. The project has already begun in the Department of Pharmacy and...
A grocers was ordered to close after environmental health officers found evidence of rodents and poor hygiene.
A teenage robber due to be locked up for biting a girl as he stole her phone fled from court to “say his goodbyes”.
A woman arrested at Heathrow on suspicion of Syria-related terrorism offences is a 25-year-old mother from Birmingham who is a massive TOWIE fan, and who left the UK with her young son last year.
An on-the-run fraudster who jumped bail while awaiting sentence for a series of frauds worth more than £100,000 has finally appeared in court after being tracked down to Birmingham.
A 27-year-old man from West Yorkshire pleaded guilty to posting a link to an IS propaganda magazine on his public Facebook page.
A bogus spiritual healer who conned his victims out of hundreds of thousands of pounds was not an ‘isolated case’, officials have warned.
Muslim pilgrims from Oldham have been urged to make sure they are protected if there are problems during this year’s Hajj and Umrah pilgrimmages. Council officers found three out of seven local travel agents displayed a fake ATOL licence - meaning...
A 29-year-old Birmingham man has denied repeatedly stabbing a man in a savage Quinton fish and chip shop attack.
A former factory worker has been jailed for raping a 14-year-old girl and abusing her 13-year-old friend in a sickening child sexual exploitation case.
