Time and again, walking round the streets of Manningham in Bradford, where men are still hammering boards up to the windows smashed in Saturday night’s riots and where patches of melted tarmac show where cars were set alight by angry gangs of Asian youths, the eye is caught by a single word. There it is, [...]

Because of civil liberties objections, Labour last night voted against the renewal of the Northern Ireland Emergency Provisions Act, which gives powers to the Diplock courts for trial without jury. The Act has to be replaced next year when its five-year term expires.t The first demolition of a border checkpoint since the ceasefires will start [...]

She is especially fearful for the future of her daughter, Rebecca, four.”If I look back to when I was a child, there was no question but that I would get a job on leaving school,” she said, “but there is absolutely nothing for young people today.”She said children “grow up too quick and are surrounded [...]

“I’ve lived here 20 years and always got on happily with everyone – Asian,white, and West Indian.”Around him older Asian leaders remained silent. Down the road the workmen continued to sweep away the debris.Out of approximately 470,000 inhabitants in Bradford, 64,000 are of Asian origin. In the mid Eighties the city had one of the [...]

The capital depends for its water on neighbouring states and rival political parties have used water as an instrument to taunt the Delhi state government.It is so hot that just outside New Delhi the other day I saw a motorist who had pulled his overheated car off the road surrounded by thirsty monkeys. They had [...]

Shell evicted them last month but they boarded again briefly during last week’s North Sea Conference in Denmark, when environment ministers from four European nations condemned the British government for allowing the dumping.Greenpeace claims that sea-dumping poses an environmental risk, while Shell says the risk is minimal and it is the best option taking into [...]