A national minute’s silence has been held in memory of the 22 people who died in the Manchester Arena terror attack on 22 May 2017.

Hundreds of people have gathered for a service marking the first anniversary of the Manchester Arena attack.

Prince William and Prime Minister Theresa May joined families of victims at the Manchester Cathedral service.

Community leaders Nidhi Sinha from the Hindu Community, Imam Irfan Chishti from the Muslim Community and Sukhbir Singh from the Sikh Community joined to speak of the ‘common grief’ all communities have felt.

Indian police say they have successfully extracted 106 cocaine capsules from a woman who was allegedly trying to smuggle the drugs into the country.

The 25-year-old foreign national was arrested at the international airport in the capital Delhi last week after a tip-off.

The drugs are estimated to be worth 50 million rupees.

A British Asian attention-seeker who wasted 250 hours of police time by falsely claiming to have witnessed a loan shark’s murder on a Birmingham street has been jailed for 18 months.
Qasim Rehman told police he had seen his neighbour, 40-year-old Sajid Hussain, being attacked last year.
But Birmingham Crown Court heard the 26-year-old simply invented his account to boost his reputation in the community.

A British Asian Man – Mustafa Ali from Birmingham has been jailed for 11 years at Birmingham Crown Court, after a loaded revolver and 12 rounds of ammunition were discovered in a bag stashed inside a child’s play House .
Ali has been jailed for 11 years after an analysis of mobile phones found scattered throughout his address lead police to uncover a gang responsible for flooding the streets of Birmingham with Class A drugs.
Crack cocaine and heroin with a street value of £10,000 were also found when officers searched Mustafa Ali’s home on a previous occasion last year .