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  UK Minister for International Development, Jenny Chapman will confirm UK support for Rohingya refugees, including and women and girls, while visiting Bangladesh this week (13–14 November 2025). During her visit, Minister Chapman will see UK-funded programmes supporting Rohingya refugees to help prevent Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG). The UK continues to call for the safe, voluntary, and dignified return of Rohingya refugees to ...

Plans to transform Liverpool Street station have been delayed again after the organisation behind the redevelopment added further details to the application. Network Rail’s plan – to partially demolish Britain’s busiest station and build a multi-storey tower cantilevered above a neighbouring Grade II* listed former hotel – was due to be decided by the City of London Corporation by the ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah: As Bangladesh prepares for its upcoming national elections, an increasing number of expatriate Bangladeshis are expressing interest in contesting parliamentary seats. Among them are many dual citizens, some of whom have already secured preliminary nominations from major political parties. Yet, their eligibility remains legally uncertain under Bangladesh’s constitution and electoral laws. Article 66(2)(c) of the Constitution clearly ...

Motorists in part of south-east London are less likely to be hit with penalty charge notices (PCNs) this week as traffic wardens begin industrial action. On Monday 10 November, civil enforcement officers in Bromley will embark on action short of a strike for a week, after pay talks with their employer broke down. Bromley traffic wardens who are GMB union ...

By Bulbul Hasan: Some lives leave ripples; others leave radiance. Dr. A. K. M. Hafiz was one whose presence quietly brightened every space he entered — through his kindness, intellect, and profound belief in the goodness of people. To those who knew him, he was more than a physician; he was a healer in the truest sense — of bodies, ...

For the first time in its nearly 700-year history, the Lord Mayor’s Show this year became the Lady Mayor’s Show. Dame Susan Langley DBE is not the City of London’s first female lord mayor – she’s the third in 697 years – but she is the first to take the lady mayor title. The show is a procession from the ...

London’s historic Highgate Cemetery is set for an £18m regeneration after the local authority approved plans to improve the site. Camden Council has approved plans to overhaul the north London site as part of a 25-year “revitalisation” project to combat the effects of climate change and general decay, restore existing structures and construct new buildings. One of capital’s “magnificent seven” ...

A residential school described as a lifeline for autistic children will close next month after a south London council agreed it could no longer keep it open. Bradstow School, in Kent, will shut on 31 December after the Wandsworth Council’s cabinet approved its closure, following what officers described as the “only option” left amid ongoing financial challenges. The council had ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   London, 6 November 2025: The British peer Lord Carlile of Berriew has warned that Bangladesh faces “serious challenges” following more than a year of political unrest, urging the country’s leaders to ensure that upcoming elections are fair, inclusive and independently monitored. In a statement issued from the House of Lords, Lord Carlile said the international community ...

  Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   London, 5 November 2025: The Bangladeshi Workers’ Council (UK) has sent a memorandum to the Chief Adviser of Bangladesh, Professor Muhammad Yunus, urging the immediate and unconditional release of Advocate Anwar Hossain Sumon and thirty seven other detained trade union and labour leaders, and the withdrawal of all false charges against them. The memorandum, sent ...