Millions of fake cigarettes are entering the UK and undermining efforts to cut smoking, councils have warned.

As secondary school tables are published, BBC analysis shows it will take over 70 years for poorer pupils to catch up with their peers at GCSE.

I refer to the article “The Baggage of Old Age” in last week’s AV, which vividly describes dilemma facing elderly parents, especially single parents when one partner passes away. Normally ladies are the ones who are left behind, due to their...

There is no shortage of heartless sanctimonious scammers who would not hesitate to milk any one of their last penny, using every trick in the trade to carry out their clever traps. The latest scam is to send emails to thousands of unsuspecting...

In recent days, some of the countries in the world have witnessed unprecedented public unrest. In our neighbouring country France, there have been violent protests called 'Yellow Vest Protest'. It all started with riots in Paris but then spread...

There has been an increase of 14 per cent - the highest since 2008 in homicides which is a worrying situation. We need more bobbies on the beat to face this rise in crime, anti-social behaviour and homicides. It is time now to restore the Police...

Justine Greening says she had plans to scrap tuition fees, before she lost the job of education secretary a year ago. She says she wanted a graduate contribution scheme to fund England's universities where "you wouldn't have a loan, you wouldn't...

The University of Birmingham has launched a partnership with Trinity College Dublin to "strengthen European links" amid "post-Brexit uncertainty".

A donkey said to a tiger, 'The grass is blue.' Tiger said, 'No grass is green.'

Motherland, means to be loved as much as we love Mother. We love Mother at any age, in any shape more than ourselves. Non residents in general never like if their Motherland is criticized in any form even if it is most of the time constructive,...