Local news

A sexual predator who stalked and murdered Zara Aleena is set to challenge his sentence at the Court of Appeal. Jordan McSweeney targeted at least five women before he attacked 35-year-old Ms Aleena as she walked home from a night out in east London on 26 June 2022. McSweeney had been released from prison on licence nine days before the ...

Defibrillators have been installed across London’s transport network to be used by the public if a passenger suffers a cardiac arrest, Sadiq Khan has announced. The Mayor of London on Monday confirmed that all London Underground and Overground stations have been equipped with the devices, which can restart a heart. Last year, the London Ambulance Service responded to 13,000 cardiac ...

London, 16 October : Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Monday visited a Jewish school here and reiterated his government’s commitment to protect Britain’s Jews from antisemitic attacks amid the ongoing Israel-Gaza conflict. Sunak also stressed that Israel’s operations must centre on the terrorist group Hamas to avoid an escalation of conflict in the region. He pointed to the spy planes ...

Underdeveloped and developing countries, including Bangladesh and other Asian nations, have seen an influx of individuals migrating to the United Kingdom through various visa categories such as care visas, work permits, and student visas. These newcomers are adapting to the British lifestyle, but Bangladeshis, in particular, face significant challenges, particularly in the job market. To shed light on the reasons ...

Sadiq Khan has accused the Government of “plucking out of the air” the promise to build up to 10,000 new homes at Euston. The mayor said that the pledge – made last week as prime minister Rishi Sunak announced the scrapping of HS2’s northern leg – had been made without full consideration of the practicalities. The Government insists its plans ...

A teenage boy has been found shot at a house in South London. Police were called by paramedics following reports of a shooting in Fairmount Road in Brixton. A 16-year-old boy was found at a residential address and treated at the scene before being taken to a south London hospital. In a statement police said: “Police were called by LAS ...

Beavers have been returned to west London for the first time in around 400 years in an attempt to improve the capital’s biodiversity. The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, helped release the herbivorous rodents at Paradise Fields in Ealing on Wednesday. The project is supported by the Mayor’s Rewild London Fund, which aims to create new green spaces and encourage ...

LONDON, Oct 12 : British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Group on Thursday won a $250 million London lawsuit against U.S. train operator Brightline over a cancelled branding deal. Virgin Group sued Brightline after the latter cancelled a deal to use the Virgin brand in 2020, just over 18 months after it was signed. Brightline said it terminated the deal because ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   Geneva, 10 October 2023: Speakers at the United Nations side event on 10 October called upon the governments and international institutions, including the UN agencies, to recognise the Bangladesh genocide committed by Pakistan in 1971. They said silence is complicity and opined that every genocide and every crime against humanity deserves to be recognised to give ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   A demonstration and banner campaign was held during the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council session in Geneva. Bengali diaspora in Europe gathered at the monumental sculpture ‘Broken Chair’ in front of the United Nations in Geneva to condemn the religious extremism and terrorism perpetrated by the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and Jamaat-e-Islami in ...