Tag: Blackburn
Straw Under Fire for Linking Ethnicity to Sex Attacks
A row around race and sexual exploitation flared last night as opponents and supporters reacted to a suggestion by former home secretary Jack Straw...
Muslim couple dies in arson attack in North England
A Muslim cleric and his wife have been killed in their own house in an arson attack, with two of their children injured, in...
Qatar donates £1.5m for mosque after intervention from Jack Straw
Jack Straw, Britain's Justice Secretary, wrote a letter of introduction for his friend and political ally, Lord Patel of Blackburn, who persuaded the emir,...
Manchester UK’s Blackburn prayers in park festival plan
A two-day Muslim prayer festival could be staged in Corporation Park, Blackburn, next month. The event – the first of its kind outside London...
