JJ Foodservice has reported record sales as the eating out market picks up and home consumers continue to shop in bulk. Sales in August 2020 increased by 9.27% compared with the same period last year, with the government’s Eat Out To Help Out scheme boosting sales as people started eating out aga...
For the past week, the British government has come under intense pressure over its plans to go against the European Union Act (Withdrawal Agreement), which it signed into law in January of this year. Prime Minister Boris Johnson says the government needs to counter a loophole in the Agreement whi...
A council leader in North London has questioned the government over a lack of detail on how Covid marshals will operate. Nesil Caliskan, who heads Enfield Council, told the BBC on Thursday that local authorities like hers lacked “basic logistical details from government” about how the marshals wi...
A young British Turkish Cypriot psychology student has appealed to the community for help, so she can complete important research into how the mind learns a second language. Londoner Neriman Altiparmak is currently on a Masters’ programme in Applied Psychology at Middlesex University. Part of her...
Are you aware that Turkey and North Cyprus are no longer on Vodafone’s roam-free list? I have three lines with them and only found out by chance when my father, currently in North Cyprus, couldn’t use one of them. All last week he was unable to call or FaceTime my sister and I in Britain. My 82-y...
The appalling treatment of the Uyghur people in China has been receiving much more media coverage of late, but while awareness is growing, little has been achieved by way of ending their brutal oppression. As evidence increasingly shows, the Chinese state has embarked on a massive programme to el...
Zahid Younis, 36, has been found guilty of murdering Henriett Szucs and Mihrican "Canan" Mustafa, whose bodies were found inside a freezer in the killer's flat in Canning Town, East London, in April 2019. The verdict was given this afternoon at Southwark Crown Court, on the third of the jury’s delib...
A jury has retired to consider its verdicts in the trial of a man accused of murdering two vulnerable women and storing their bodies in a freezer in his flat in Customs House, East London. Zahid Younis, 36, is accused of murdering Hungarian national Henriett Szucs, who slept rough in Ilford, and...
Plumbing entrepreneur Hatice ‘Hattie’ Hasan, founder and chief executive of female plumbing business Stopcocks, has launched a new initiative for female victims of domestic abuse and the organisations that support them. Hasan is aiming to raise £15,000 to set up a National Register of Tradeswomen...
Figen Murray, the mother of Martyn Hett, one of the 22 victims of the Manchester Arena bombing, has described the testimony of bereaved relatives at the trial of Hashem Abedi as “heart-breaking.” Writing on Twitter after the terrorist was sentenced to 55 years for his role in the bombing, Mrs Mur...
