Tributes have been paid to Labour peer Lord Adam Patel of Blackburn, who died on Wednesday aged 78. Lord Patel, famously known as Lord Adam, came to Blackburn in the 1960s to study accountancy at Blackburn College after graduating from the University...
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20th Jun 2019 | Updated at 03:06pm 20th Jun 2019
Ed Davey's Modi connection
The Liberal Democrats leadership candidate speaks on climate change, broken immigration system, Brexit divide and working with Narendra Modi for stronger India-UK trade relations.
International Widows Day
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Asian young carers struggle to get right support, report reveals
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Wolverhampton council gets its first ever Sikh public health and wellbeing boss
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770,000 people in England unable to speak English well
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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...
Tributes have been paid to Labour peer Lord Adam Patel of Blackburn, who died on Wednesday aged 78. Lord Patel, famously known as Lord Adam, came to Blackburn in the 1960s to study accountancy at Blackburn College after graduating from the University...
Sarah Hewitt-Clarkson, the headteacher of a school in Birmingham that has been at the centre of protests over LGBT equality classes has said that she was "delighted" after a judge issued a fresh interim injunction against the demonstrations.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been accused of “not facing the residents” sooner by a woman who lives at a block of flats that was engulfed by fire on Sunday 9th June in Barking where twenty flats were destroyed and another ten had been destroyed.
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has been accused of “not facing the residents” sooner by a woman who lives at a block of flats that was engulfed by fire on Sunday 9th June in Barking where twenty flats were destroyed and another ten had been destroyed.
The Hemraj Goyal Foundation has launched a “one-night-only” sensory experience in Central London, in aid of Sense International, a deafblindness charity.
An Indian-origin bureaucrat, who served as the UK's deputy high commisssioner in Mumbai and in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit during Gordon Brown’s...
An Indian-origin bureaucrat, who served as the UK's deputy high commisssioner in Mumbai and in the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit during Gordon Brown’s...
The opening ceremony of the 12th edition of the ICC Cricket World Cup was hosted at the Buckingham Palace on Wednesday, May 29, and attended by about 4000 cricket fans, celebrity names and captains of all cricket teams. Broadcast globally, the...
Joel Aniyankunj, 19, and his cousin Jason Varghese, 15, both from Bolton, Manchester, lost their lives while swimming in the Old Danube lake in Vienna...
