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Rushanara Ali MP attacked George Osborne’s Autumn Statement, calling attention to a decade of damaging future Government cuts which will hurt families across the country. The Bethnal Green and Bow MP welcomed the success of residents and campaigners across the UK in forcing George Osborne to defer his previous cuts to tax credits, but also warned that the Chancellor still ...

Commonwealth countries must lead the fight against extremism, corruption and climate change, David Cameron has said. Speaking after he co-chaired a meeting of 10 leaders at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Malta, the PM said agreements had been made to counter online extremist “propaganda”. Corruption was a “cancer at the heart of so many problems we face”, he ...

Grant Shapps has quit as international development minister amid claims he failed to act on allegations of bullying, Downing Street has said. Claims have engulfed the Conservatives following the apparent suicide in September of a youth activist. Mr Shapps told the prime minister the “buck should stop with me” concerning issues while he was party co-chairman. Youth organiser Mark Clarke ...

The winners of the 10th annual BCA Awards were announced at a memorable ceremony at the Park Plaza Hotel in Westminster, London on November 22nd 2015. Hosted by TV presenter Tasmin Lucia-Khan and MasterChef’s Gregg Wallace. In addition to the 10 winners of the Chef of the Year and 10 winners of restaurant of the Year accolades, three prestigious BCA ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: Community and mainstream service provider British Bangldeshi organisation Air Express has been selected as the exclusive travel partner of Oscar renowned British Curry Award. This will not only be limited in papers, rather it will turn into real life work by working in partnership in different projects together.  Air Express will be providing services in Curry ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: George Osborne has backed down on controversial tax credit cuts which were due to cost millions of working families thousands each year. The chancellor had promised to modify his plan to cut tax credits – cuts that would have cost 3m low-income families an average of £1,000 a year. He was facing growing pressure from Tory ...

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets, John Biggs, has written to the government setting out the impact that a withdrawal of welfare funding could have to families on low incomes. Evidence was given to the Work and Pensions Committee inquiry into local welfare safety nets, showing that households dependent on benefits were an average of £32 per week worse since welfare ...

Bangla Mirror Desk :: A Muslim woman has thanked the public for standing up to a man who racially abused her and her sister on a packed Newcastle train. Ruhi Rahman, 23, said she was threatened when the abuser told other passengers she could bomb the train, as she sat with her sister. Other passengers on the on the Tyne ...

Plans to redress differences in school funding across England are expected to be outlined in the Autumn Statement. Change will begin in 2017-18 after consultation on the details, which could happen in early 2016, George Osborne is likely to say on Wednesday. This would begin to reduce historical variations in funding per pupil between different areas of England. School budgets ...

Two 5,000-strong “strike brigades” that can be rapidly deployed are to be created by 2025 to help the UK respond to “diverse” threats, the PM is to say. David Cameron will give details of an additional £12bn of equipment spending, as he outlines the Strategic Defence and Security Review in the Commons. The extra spending will include a new fleet ...