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Some of the finest Indian treasures from the Royal Collection will go on display in a new Royal Collection Trust exhibition (launched on 25 May) that tells the story of the grand tour of the Subcontinent made by the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) at the end of the 19th century. Splendours of the Subcontinent: A Prince's Tour of India 1875–76 has been developed in collaboration with Cartwright Hall, Bradford, and New Walk Museum & Art Gallery, Leicester.

Councillors in North Yorkshire gave the green light to a shale gas fracking application from Third Energy on Monday.

Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has lived up to his promise by giving two of his top three City Hall jobs to women. He finally appointed his deputy mayors for policing and transport who between them control multi-billion pound budgets and hold huge power.

લંડનની શેરેટોન પાર્ક હોટલની ભવ્ય સાંજમાં બ્રિટિશરોએ એશિયન સર્કલમાં સૌપ્રથમ ચેરિટી એવોર્ડસની ઉજવણી કરી હતી. ચેરિટી ક્લેરિટીના સહયોગમાં એશિયન વોઈસ ચેરિટી એવોર્ડસ માટે શુક્રવાર, ૨૦ મેએ ભવ્ય ડીનરનું આયોજન કરવામાં આવ્યું હતું જેમાં ઉદ્દાત વિચારો ધરાવતી અને પ્રવર્તમાન સમયમાં બ્રિટન તેમજ વિશ્વમાં પણ સૌથી મુશ્કેલ સામાજિક મુદ્દાઓના નિરાકરણ લાવવાના પ્રયાસ કરતી ચેરિટીઝને એવોર્ડસ એનાયત કરાયા હતા.

‘I was mutilated when I was a week old, to supposedly preserve my honour. When I was eight, my sister bled to death after being mutilated in the same manner and all that we were told was: It was her time to go.’ These are the words of a survivor of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) and they describe, more clearly than I ever could, why we need to end this terrible practice.

In quite a departure from its Christian traditions, senior clergy at the York Minster have quietly introduced a new form of spiritual enrichment altogether – Zen Buddhist meditation sessions to take place on its premises.

The report that the number of women having abortions after 35 is rising comes as a shock to those who presume that the termination of unwanted pregnancy is something only done by irresponsible teenagers. One would think that by the age of 35-plus women would have some idea how things work. In reality it’s not so.

A GP is facing the music for illegally prescribing Viagra to family friends.

Rajiv Chandrakant Vyas, more famously known as Raju Vyas has been jailed for 38 months at the Leicester Crown Court, it has been revealed. More details of the sentence will be reported in due course.