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  • Britain calls Indian Maggi noodles safe

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    Britain’s Food Standards Authority (FSA) has announced that Nestle India’s Maggi noodles, manufactured in India and exported to Britain, were safe to consume and contained lead well within permissible levels…reports Asian Lite News. “The FSA can confirm that results from testing samples of Maggi noodles in the UK have all found that levels of lead…

  • National sperm bank lacks donors

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    The UK is facing a shortage of donors for fertility treatment and fertility crisis in some communities is increasing as there is a demand from mothers for donors of the same religion. Though the UK planned to tackle Britain’s fertility “crisis” by setting up the world’s first “National Sperm Bank” it’s indicated that just five…

  • Abundance of food fuels Britain’s obesity epidemic

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    A recent research published in the Bulletin of World Health Organisation states that Britain which indulges in overabundance of calories is caused due to an overproduction and imports of food than required…reports Asian Lite News. Researchers have warned that Britain’s obesity epidemic is being fuelled by the sheer abundance of food, after finding that there…

  • Birmingham airport urges Govt caution on Heathrow

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    Paul Kehoe, CEO of Birmingham Airport, has today urged the Government to take a cautious response to the Airports Commission’s recommendations, as regional airports like Birmingham Airport continue to thrive….reports Asian Lite News. The Airports Commission, led by Chairperson Sir Howard Davies, has spent the past three years looking into the future of UK aviation…

  • Greek situation could hit West Midlands exports

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    Business leaders are warning that a Greek exit from the euro could hit demand for exports from the West Midlands…reports Asian Lite. Paul Faulkner , chief executive of Birmingham Chamber, said that although Britain’s level of direct exposure to Greece was relatively small, any ‘Grexit’ could lead to a slowdown in the EU economy. He said: “British…

  • Britain’s economy runs on fast track

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    Offical ONS figures reveal that economic growth also revised up for the first quarter of 2015 but separate figures show disposable income is still lower than in 2008…reports Asian Lite. ONS statistics reveal that Britain’s economy is growing even faster than previously thought, In the first three months of the year, the economy grew 0.4…

  • Why parents blame others for their fault?

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    While trumpeting their own innocence over their children’s association with extremism, Muslim parents simultaneously protest that the authorities did nothing.  If the families really had no knowledge of such activities, why should the police or schools or social services?….writes Manzoor Moghal As the lethal cycle of British involvement in jihadism deepens, so the cries of…

  • Bodies of Tunisia beach victims arriving back in UK

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    The bodies of Britons killed in the Tunisia beach massacre will arrive back in the UK  on board RAF C17 transport plane. An RAF plane carrying some of the deceased will land at Brize Norton after the Tunisian authorities released the bodies. The repatriation process is expected to take several days reports Sky News. It…

  • Britain set for the hottest day in nearly a decade

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    Britain is all set for its hottest day in nearly a decade today with highs of 35C (95F) are anticipated in the South East and into the Midlands – close to the July record of 36.5C (98F) set in Wisley, Surrey in 2006. The beach-towel weather will continue into the weekend, though Thursday will be slightly…

  • ‘Benefit cuts risk child poverty’: UK children’s commissioners

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    UK children’s commissioners have said the government should end its planned cuts to benefits to prevent more young people falling into poverty. The commissioners for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland said child poverty was “unacceptably high”. In a report to the United Nations, they said government austerity measures had failed to protect the most…

  • Airports commission backs third runway at Heathrow

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    The Airports Commission has backed a third Heathrow runway that will add close to £150bn in economic growth and 70,000 jobs by 2050. It would also connect Britain to 40 new destinations around the world. Downing Street officials say they want to digest the report properly, without making “a snap judgement”. Sir Howard Davies’s report said…

  • LILY’s Fund-raising Reception in London

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    Charity LILY Against Human Trafficking held a fund-raising reception in London to support the girls of Nepal who are at risk of trafficking…reports Asian Lite News. The reception hosted by Lord Verjee at Thomas Goode W1 was successful in raising £65,000 for Nepal.  Attended by Sharmila Tagore, Mr G.P. Hinduja, Siobhan. McDonagh MP, Baroness Margaret Jay,…

  • Without God, Is Everything Permitted?

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    Vikas Datta reviews British author Julian Baggini’s Without God, is Everything Permitted?  The dilemmas of our lives and times – A way out? Does the study of ethics and morality have any relevance in our contemporary action-oriented, technology-driven materialistic world where philosophy is dismissed as only an academic activity? Yes, it does if we are to make informed,…

  • Briton launches “Greek Bailout Fund”

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    A British man has launched an online crowd-funding programme to help mitigate Greece’s debt crisis, media reported. Thom Feeney, 29,  launched the programme titled “Greek Bailout Fund” on Indiegogo.com, a US based global fundraising website, with the goal of collecting 1.6 billion euros ($1.79 billion) over a period of seven days, the Mirror Online reported.…

  • GOOALLL…Gurinder Scores Again

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    Gurinder Chadha creates history as she became the  first British Asian to direct a West End Musical….reports Asian Lite News The opening of Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical at a packed house at London’s Phoenix Theatre heralds a new era British cultural landscape. Gurinder Chadha has become the first British Asian to direct a…

  • Passengers stranded amid Calais strike

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    Port workers  strike action in Calais for the second time in a week has stranded thousands of ferry passengers on both sides of the Channel. The MyFerryLink workers walked out over the sale of the company’s ferries to rival DFDS Seaways. Sailings between Dover and the French port are at a standstill, but services to…

  • Injured Britons flown home by RAF

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    The RAF has flown in Four British tourists seriously injured in the Tunisian beach attack. It is feared that about 30 UK citizens were killed, though only 18 have so far been confirmed among the dead. The government says all those hurt at the resort near Sousse on Friday will be brought home in the…

  • London begins major counter-terrorism exercise

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     London’s largest counter-terrorism exercise to date has begun with Police officers, soldiers, emergency services and intelligence officials taking part. The simulation of a terror attack has been six months in the planning. The exercise – codenamed Strong Tower – involves 1,000 police officers at locations across the capital until Wednesday afternoon. Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Bernard…

  • Poor Greece: Tsipras Slipped

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    Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras threatened to resign if he fails to win the referendum on Sunday….reports Asian Lite News Mr Tsipras said a clear vote against austerity would help Greece negotiate a better settlement to the crisis. Otherwise, he warned, he would not stay in office to oversee more cuts. Greece’s bailout expires on…

  • Bye ‘Birmingham’; Hello ‘WMCA’….!

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      Finally the name is out! The Midland’s new combined authority have ended with the adoption of ‘West Midlands Combined Authority’….reports Asian Lite News. Businesses wanted ‘Greater Birmingham’ or ‘Heart of England’ as it is believed that the name ‘West Midlands’ carries little or no resonance in major economic countries such as China and USA Other…

  • UK to tackle radicalisation at schools, prisons

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    Prime Minister David Cameron vows to defeat terrorism and unveiled new measures to prevent radicalisation at schools and prisons…. reports Kaliph Anaz The prime minister was addressing the House of Commons in the wake of attack in Tunisia. Cameron announced new measures to make all public bodies – from schools to prisons to local councils – to…

  • Britain to taste Arabian weather

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    The Met Office said there was an “80 per cent probability” of heatwave conditions between noon today – 30 June and 6am on Thursday, 2 July in parts of England….reports Asian Lite News According to Met Office 1st July is likely to be the hottest day of the year. With temperatures like to soar towards the 30C, a…

  • Walk Together to Mark London 7/7

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    A broad coalition of Londoners, from all faiths and backgrounds, is calling on the public to come together and show that the terrorists have failed to divide the heart of Great Britain….reports Asian Lite News The city is marking the 10th anniversary of serial blasts on July 7, 2005. It was just another Thursday morning…

  • Please stop the Blame Game

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    While trumpeting their own innocence over their children’s association with extremism, Muslim parents simultaneously protest that the authorities did nothing.  If the families really had no knowledge of such activities, why should the police or schools or social services?….writes Manzoor Moghal As the lethal cycle of British involvement in jihadism deepens, so the cries of…

  • Afzal seeks review of UK policies

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    Labour leader Afzal Khan MEP, one of the most influential British Asian politician, has called for an new approach to tackling the spread of radicalisation across Europe and for a greater understanding of the grievances behind it….reports Asian Lite News Speaking in the European Parliament at the Foundation for European Progressive Studies’ conference on ‘Islam in…

  • ‘The nation is united in grief’: Cameron

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    Britain is “united in shock and grief”, prime minister David Cameron has said, as it emerging the British death toll in the Tunisian attack will rise above 30. A total of 38 people were killed by a gunman with links to Islamic State extremists on a beach near Sousse reported BBC. Writing in the Daily Telegraph,…

  • Greece braces for an epic tragedy

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    Tripras said the ECB proposals “blackmail” and vowed a refusal to the austerity measures. He called for a popular vote on the proposals on July 5….reports Asian Lite News Greek banks are to remain closed and capital controls will be imposed, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras says. Speaking after the European Central Bank (ECB) said it…

  • Labour leader assumes new post

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    Veteran Labour leader and former MP Tony Lloyd was appointed Interim Mayor of Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) at an event held in Oldham…. reports Asian Lite News Mr Lloyd was chosen in May over Wigan Council leader Peter Smith by a panel from the area’s 10 boroughs. He will combine the job with his current responsibilities as…

  • Stopping the crimson tide ….

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    Terrorism is a long battle and has nothing to do with retaking lost territory nor does a battle plan for this fight have parameters. It is fluid, nebulous and almost impossible to eliminate for the enemy is unseen…writes Bikram Vohra The plumes of violence continue to spread insidiously. The attacks in Kuwait, Tunis and France…

  • China warns Glastonbury organisers

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    China has warned the organisers of the annual British Glastonbury Music Festival over inviting exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, a media report said. “China resolutely opposes any country, organisation, body or individual giving any kind of platform to the 14th Dalai Lama to engage in anti-China activities,” The Telegraph quoted Lu Kang, China’s…

  • IS claims responsibility for Tunisian attack

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     Islamic State (IS) militants has claimed responsibility for an attack in a Tunisian seaside resort that killed 39 people. In a statement released on Twitter, the group identified the gunman as Abu Yahya al-Qayrawani, describing him as a “soldier of the caliphate” and most of the killed as “subjects of states that make up the…

  • Second Alton Towers crash victim’s leg amputated

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    Vick Balch, a 20-year-old woman injured in the Alton Towers rollercoaster crash has had her leg amputated, her lawyer said. She had her right leg amputated below the knee following seven rounds of surgery. She was injured when the theme park’s Smiler ride crashed into an empty carriage in front of it on 2 June. Days…

  • Majority of dead were British:Tunisian PM

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    Tunisian Prime Minister Habib Essid has said the majority of the 38 people killed in the attack on a Tunisian beach resort were British . Islamic State extremists have said they carried out the attack. At least five Britons have been confirmed dead by the Foreign Office, which warned the death toll could rise reports BBC. Thomson…

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  • GALLERY: Queen in Germany

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    British Monarch Queen Elizabeth II has made her first visit to a World War Two concentration camp, Bergen-Belsen, in northern Germany. The camp, where teenage diarist Anne Frank was among thousands to die, was liberated by British soldiers in 1945. The Queen, accompanied by the Duke of Edinburgh, laid a wreath at a memorial there on…

  • Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical

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    Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical opened to a packed house at London’s Phoenix Theatre.  Amongst the audience were familiar faces including Omid Djalili, Naughty boy, Madhu and Sulaiman from Signature, Anita Anand, Nihal, Adil Ray, Vanessa Feltz, Graham Norton, Juliet Stevenson, Lily Collins, Indira Verma and Manish Bhasin. Adapted by Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges…

  • Interpol notice to be sought for Lalit Modi soon

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    By Brajendra Nath Singh   The NDA government is all set to request Interpol to issue a red-corner notice against former IPL chief Lalit Modi who is wanted for financial irregularities, it was reliably learnt…reporst Asian Lite News. The decision was taken at a meeting on Friday between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Finance Minister Arun…

  • Five Britons killed in Tunisia attack

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    At least five Britons were killed in an attack in Tunisia , British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said…reports Asian Lite News. Dozens of people, including foreign tourists, were killed after gunmen opened fire in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse, according to Tunisia’s interior ministry. While 37 people have been confirmed dead in the attack,…

  • Yvette seeks more BAME MPs

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    Shadow Home Secretary Yvette Cooper said Labour must double the number Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) MPs if the party were to win a majority….reports Asian Lite News The shadow home secretary has also argued that there must also be greater diversity in the police, armed forces and civil service.  She has said that she…

  • How can we stem radicalisation of Muslim youths?

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    How we can prevent Muslim youths from turning their backs on British values, rather than choosing a life of radicalisation and extremism….Sajjad Karim MEP explores for Asian Lite News Islam for many people in the UK and even across the western world has become a word associated with the likes of Al-Qaeda or foreign wars…

  • Tessa Fighting For One London

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    Labour politician Tessa Jowell released a new video in her campaign to become Labour’s candidate for London Mayor. The three minute video, titled ‘One London’, features Jowell explain her background and connection to the city, as well as raising the issue of poverty in the capital….reports Asian Lite News “I’ve worked here all my life, but…

  • Welsh man held guilty of trying to kill Sikh dentist

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    A Wales court has held a man guilty of attempt to murder for attacking a Sikh dentist with a machete at North Wales’ Tesco Mold supermarket in January, a media report said ….reports Asian Lite News. Zack Davies, 26, of Chester Street in Mold, told the court that he never intended to kill Sarandev Bhambra,…

  • British Army fails to attract reservists

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    Government drive to sign up thousands as army reservists looks ‘unachievable’, a watchdog warned. Under an Armed Forces shake-up, ministers are cutting the strength of the regular Army by 20,000, while doubling the Territorial Army – now called the Army Reserve – to 30,000 by 2020. But the project was last night given a ‘red’…

  • Blackpool refuse permission to Fracking firm

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    Unanimous decision by councillors have refused  planning permission for fracking in Lancashire in a move which has been welcomed by environmental campaigners. Lancashire County Council’s development control committee turned down Cuadrilla’s application to explore for shale gas by drilling, hydraulically fracking and testing the flow of gas at Roseacre Wood, Roseacre, between Preston and Blackpool reports…

  • ‘I welcome food banks’: Duncan Smith

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    Iain Duncan Smith has defied criticism of his government’s welfare cuts, insisting he ‘welcomes’ food banks in Britain. The Work and Pensions Secretary said the rise in the number of charities handing out food parcels was evidence of ‘decent’ people helping those who have ‘fallen into difficulty’. But the comments reignited claims that benefit cuts were…

  • Burnham considered the contender to lead labour

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     The Independent and ORB survey shows that Andy Burnham is the Labour leadership contender most likely to improve the party’s chances at the next general election.   The shadow Health Secretary was cited by 36 per cent when people were asked, irrespective of which  party they would support, to say which  of the four Labour candidates…

  • Met Priyanka, Robert in London: Lalit Modi

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    Former IPL chief Lalit Modi has said he bumped into Congress president Sonia Gandhi’s daughter Priyanka and her husband in a London restaurant last year, sparking an attack from the BJP….reports Asian Lite News. “Happy to meet the Gandhi family in London. I had run into Robert (Vadra) and Priyanka separately in a restaurant,” tweeted…

  • Russell Brand arrives in India

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    British stand-up comedian Russell Brand, dressed in comfort wear, landed here , to make the audience chuckle away at the second season of LIVE Viacom18 Comedy Central Chuckle Festival. Brand, who developed a special bond with India after tying the knot with his now ex-wife Katy Perry back in 2010, is taking to the stage…

  • EU strikes deal on migrants

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    EU states have struck a deal to relocate tens of thousands of migrants who have arrived in Italy and Greece. The deal, made by EU leaders in Brussels, will see member states share the burden of 40,000 migrants who have crossed the Mediterranean. However, there will be no mandatory quotas for countries, and Britain’s opt-out on…

  • Cameron ‘delighted’ over EU renegotiation

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    The UK’s membership of the EU is “properly under way” and David Cameron is clearly delighted in the process of “reform and renegotiation”. The PM was speaking in the early hours after formally setting out his aims to EU counterparts in Brussels. He addressed EU leaders for 10 minutes at a summit dominated by the…