A panel established by the charity Birthrights is investigating discrimination ranging from explicit racism to racial bias and microaggressions that amount to poorer maternity care, it has emerged.
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22nd Apr 2021 | Updated at 09:46am 22nd Apr 2021
Sadiq Khan promises to bring Indian Premier League matches to London
Sadiq Khan has vowed to work hand-in-hand with cricketing authorities to make the Indian Premier League the latest global sports league to stage matches in London.
NHS and Tropical Sun start family ‘Heart to Heart’ about blood and organ donation
Britons are being encouraged to have a ‘heart to heart’ as part of a new campaign to get people from Black and Asian backgrounds talking about blood and organ donation.
Lord Woolley becomes the first Black man to head an Oxbridge college
A political and equalities activist has become the first black man to be elected head of an Oxbridge college. Lord Simon Woolley, founding director of campaign group Operation Black Vote, will be the newly elected principal of Cambridge University's...
New hijab trial designed by New Zealand first tried in Leicester
A new hijab designed in New Zealand especially for operational Muslim police officers is being trialled by Leicestershire Police in a first in England.
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.
Coalition to feed children and end starvation in Cowley Hill, Borehamwood
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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 panel established by the charity Birthrights is investigating discrimination ranging from explicit racism to racial bias and microaggressions that amount to poorer maternity care, it has emerged.
Levels of loneliness in the UK have increased since spring 2020. According to the Office for National Statistics between 3rd April and 3rd May 2020, 5% of people (about 2.6 million adults) said that they felt lonely “often” or “always”. From...
Levels of loneliness in the UK have increased since spring 2020. According to the Office for National Statistics between 3rd April and 3rd May 2020, 5% of people (about 2.6 million adults) said that they felt lonely “often” or “always”. From...
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...
Following the release of new GDP figures by the Office for National Statistics, business leaders have expressed their optimism at new levels of growth as the country emerges from months’ long coronavirus lockdown.
On Friday 9th April, Anas Sarwar announced his plans to save the Scottish high streets by giving a £75 prepaid card to every adult in Scotland as part of “the largest economic stimulus plan in the history of devolution”.
BBC presenter Reeta Chakrabarti has hit out at Jeremy Paxman after the latter claimed that “any fool” could present a news bulletin.
BBC presenter Reeta Chakrabarti has hit out at Jeremy Paxman after the latter claimed that “any fool” could present a news bulletin.
Sardar Patel Memorial Society UK appoints Lord Rami Ranger to lead the organisation at their Annual General Meeting on 11th April 2021.
