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The new mayor of London Sadiq Khan has made his first major policy announcement, unveiling plans to substantially increase the size of London’s clean air charging zone to tackle the capital’s illegal air pollution levels. The Ultra Low Emissions Zone (ULEZ) – which could also now come into force earlier than planned – will require drivers of the 2.5m oldest and dirtiest ...

The High Court has ruled that a father who took his daughter out of school for a family trip to Florida did not break the law, paving the way for more parents to take pupils on term-time holidays. Jon Platt refused to pay the charge for taking his family on the holiday after her Isle of Wight school refused permission ...

The European Union is a “force for social injustice” which backs “the haves rather than the have-nots”, Iain Duncan Smith has said. The ex-work and pensions secretary said “uncontrolled migration” drove down wages and increased the cost of living. He appealed to people “who may have done OK from the EU” to “think about the people that haven’t”. But Labour’s ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah : The Bake off champion 2015 Nadiya Hussain, who recently made the Queen’s 90th birthday cake, was at the opening of the Asia House Bagri Foundation Literature Festival, London. She was in conversation with journalist and author Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on 4 May at the opening of Asia House Bagri Foundation Literature Festival, Cavendish Conference Centre. Bake off ...

Sadiq Khan will bring in a one-hour “Hopper” bus ticket which will allow passengers two journeys within a 60-minute window from September. The first policy of his mayoralty should make it cheaper and more convenient for Londoners to travel around the capital, with those on lower incomes benefiting most. The Labour Mayor said the ticket, which would cost a single ...

Sadiq Khan has been elected the new Mayor of London – boosting Labour after it slumped in Scotland’s elections. Mr Khan is the city’s first Muslim mayor, after beating Tory Zac Goldsmith by 1, 310,143 votes to 994, 614. The result bolsters leader Jeremy Corbyn after Labour were beaten into third in Scotland by the Tories and lost English councillors. ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : The future of the government’s biggest public sector reform programme, universal credit, rests “on a knife edge” because Treasury cuts have reduced it to an exercise in cost-cutting, potentially leaving millions of working families worse off, experts have warned. The original aim of universal credit (UC) – to encourage people to work more hours by letting them keep ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : The colleagues Kawsar Chowdhury, Senior Staff Reporter of Dainik Sylheter Dak, has organised a press conference to raise fund for his treatment. He has been suffering from Liver and Kidney conditions for a long time. Journalists from electronic and press media and representatives from various community organisations took part in the press conference which took place ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : As a continuation of four successive charity runs in the past, East London Mosque has announced the fifth Muslim Charity Run, which will take place on 8th of May at 10.30 am in Victoria Park. The Mosque Committee announced this in a press conference held in London Muslim Centre on 25th of April. The leaders of ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah :  President of UK Nirmul Committee and veteran community activist Dr B B Chaudhuri died of heart attack on 1 May in Dhaka at the age of eighty five. The British Bengali community deeply mourns the death of one of its finest members Dr B B Chowdhury. For several decades he served the community as a popular ...