Baroness Sandip Verma has been chosen to run as Leicester's mayoral candidate for the Conservative party in May, to take on Labour's candidate Sir Peter Soulsby. Though it is believed the party initially had someone else in their mind, she was...
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22nd Dec 2024 | Updated at 03:19pm 22nd Dec 2024
“Labour party will reach out to the Hindu community in Leicester East to work with them”: Parliamentary candidate Rajesh Agrawal
The Indian diaspora and business communities in the UK are familiar with Rajesh Agrawal, the former Deputy Mayor of Business in London Mayor Sadiq Khan’s team. He transformed London into a leading investment hub for India, despite the Brexit...
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...
Bindu Patel, who spent spells in the kitchens of Michelin-starred and Gymkhana and Trishna restaurants and staged at Le Gavroche in London, is to open...
Winners of the 2018 Midlands Family Business Awards were announced at a glittering black-tie ceremony at Leicester’s Athena last Thursday.
A University of Wolverhampton academic has formally received an MBE from His Royal Highness Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, at Buckingham Palace. Dr Opinderjit...
Jet Airways’ first ever non-stop flight connecting Mumbai, India’s economic capital, and Manchester is now operating. Launched on Dhan Teras (Nov 5) -...
A community initiative run by local volunteers called Diwali Basket Brigade (DBB) took place on Saturday 3rd November 2018 across Birmingham.
To commemorate the end of 100 years since World War One (WW1), a 10 feet statue of a Sikh soldier has been unveiled in the town centre at Smethwick, in...
Taxi licences are being issued behind closed doors to drivers convicted of offences including child sex crimes and reckless driving, the Local Democracy Reporting Service has revealed. The findings follow a government report that claims current...
Two men have been found guilty of the manslaughter of a 15-year-old girl who suffered an allergic reaction to a takeaway meal.
A gang of seven men has been convicted of sexually exploiting vulnerable teenage girls in Rotherham. One of the complainants told a trial at Sheffield Crown Court how she had sex with ‘at least 100 Asian men’ by the time she was 16 and another...
