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By-elections: Labour retains all three seats

Nigel Farage: "UKIP's issues are connecting more and more with people"Continue read-ing the main storyRelated StoriesAnalysis: Are UKIP the new Lib Dems?Labour retains seat in RotherhamLabour victory in MiddlesbroughLabour has won three by-elections, retaining Commons seats in Croydon North, Middles-brough and Rotherham.

It increased its share of the vote in all three seats, but its majority was down in Rotherham, where the previous MP Dennis Mcshane had quit over expenses claims.

The UK Independence Party came second in Middlesbrough and Rotherham, and finished third in Croydon North.In Rotherham, the Lib Dems fell from third place to eighth, behind the BNP, Respect and the English Democrats.

The party got less than 5% of the vote, losing its deposit, in two out of the three contests.The Conservatives saw their vote drop in each of the seats, coming fifth in Rotherham and fourth in Middlesbrough.UKIP leader Nigel Farage, who attended the count in Rotherham, called the result across

all three seats "UKIP's most impressive result in Westminster elections so far".Sarah Champion (Labour) 9,866 (46.25%, +1.62%)Jane Collins (UKIP) 4,648 (21.79%, +15.87%)Marlene Guest (BNP) 1,804 (8.46%,

-1.96%)Yvonne Ridley (Respect) 1,778 (8.34%)Simon Wilson (Conservative) 1,157 (5.42%, -11.32%)David Wildgoose (English Democrat) 703 (3.30%)Simon Copley (Independent) 582 (2.73%, -3.58%)

Michael Beckett (Liberal Democrat) 451 (2.11%, -13.87%)Ralph Dyson (TUSC) 261 (1.22%)Paul Dickson (Independent) 51 (0.24%)Clint Bristow (Independent) 29 (0.14%)Labour majority 5,218 (24.46%)7.13% swing Labour to UKIP

Turnout: 21,330 (33.63%, -25.37%)"The political establishment is just going to have to wake up to the fact that UKIP is here and here to stay as a significant and rising mainstream part of British politics," he said.Ed Miliband welcomed the results as an endorsement of "One Nation Labour", the slogan he is expected to fight the general

election under, but said his party still had work to do to win back the trust of voters."Voters in Croydon, Rotherham and Mid-dlesbrough have put their faith in a One Nation Labour Party standing up for young people trying to find work and standing up for people whose living standards are being squeezed," he said.Labour candidate Sarah Champion won in Rotherham with 9,866 votes to UKIP candi-date Jane Collins' 4,648.

The BNP and Respect pushed the Conserva-tives into fifth place, while the Lib Dems lost their deposit, trailing in eighth - thought to be the worst by-election result in the party's history. Ms Champion, chief execu-tive of a children's hospice, said: "Cam-eron's Tories have shown what they think of Rotherham, and today this result tells David Cameron what Rotherham thinks of the Tories."

UKIP's campaign in Rotherham was boosted by a row over a local couple who had their foster children removed by the Labour coun-cil because they were UKIP members. But worries about unemployment had proven to be more important to voters than the headlines about fostering.

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Labour have introduces a new “shopper rate” for park-ing in the city centre, in an attempt to support the city centre through the Christmas period in the tough economic climate. The rate of £3 for 6 hours, which will apply to selected city centre car parks, is a discount from the cur-rent rates of up to £9.30 for 6 hours in city centre car parks. Labour are determined to sup-port the city centre economy and in the recent City Deal pushed to secure the future of the city centre redevelopment

project and in the shorter term are introducing schemes to support city centre trad-ers such as the Chapel Walk Scheme, recently announced by the council. Car Parks with the new £3 shopper rate are: Carver Street - 48Rockingham Street - 82Wellington Street - 139Rockingham Way - 249Stanley Lane - 20Silver Street - 12Wicker Lane - 16Willey Street - 36

“Shopper Rate” Parking

Sheffield will get £5,400,000 from the Coalition Govern-ment to deliver 15 hours a week of free early-years education for the poorest two-year olds by 2014. The Coalition Government is al-ready ensuring that the poor-est 20% of two-year olds, roughly 1,400 children in Sheffield, are able to receive early education from Sep-tember 2013. This will rise to include the poorest 40% by 2014. The money will help prepare

children for school and help the most hard-pressed fami-lies with childcare costs.Cllr Shaffaq Mohammed, Leader of the Liberal Dem-ocrat Group on Sheffield City Council, said: “The fact that you can still predict how well a child will do in school based on where they are born, shows an inherent unfairness in our society. Education is the best way we can help children overcome disadvantaged backgrounds.

Extra Money for Poorest Two-Year-Olds in Sheffield

Opposition councillors are urging Sheffield City Council to “go back to the drawing board” and rethink its policy on bins. The call follows a poll in The Sheffield Star that showed that 54% of lo-cal people believed the city’s new waste collection service wasn’t working. Liberal Democrat councillors believe a string of failures by the current Labour adminis-tration led to the widespread dissatisfaction, including: A failure to commu-nicate the changes, despite spending £400,000, which saw many residents miss

their first collection and con-fusion over an amnesty on extra sacks and closed lids. Complete misman-agement of local recycling centres, which led to strikes and massive queues of cars. A slump in green waste recycling following the Council’s decision to end free garden waste collections. Predictions that fly-tipping would rise in parks and public spaces and in-creasing complaints of fly-tipping, despite claims by the Council that fly-tipping was reducing.

Will Bin Policy go Back To Drawing Board?

The Green Party did not stand a candidate in the elec-tion of a Police Commission-er for South Yorkshire. We have watched a farcical and unwanted campaign unfold. Sheffield Central Cllr Rob Murphy comments: "I’m proud that we have had noth-ing to do with this election. It’s expensive, unnecessary and has been a farce. This election has been imposed on voters who have had little access to information to help them vote for a role they do not understand.’ Greens opposed the crea-tion of the Police Commis-sioner position, arguing that there are dangers associated with a single politician be-ing given so much power over the police. That all lo-cal public services should be accountable to the people through the local council and elected councillors. They say the role needed independ-ent candidates with relevant experience rather than the police being closely associ-ated with a political party. The £5000 deposit and lack of candidate mailings may

have been barriers for any independent candidates. On the other hand Shaurn Wright is elected as a new PCC for South Yorkshire.

GREEN PARTY SLAM ELECTION SHAMBLES

Shaun Wright - Police and Crime Commisioner for South Yorkshire

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EMPLOYMENT LAW DROP IN CLINICOur employment solicitor Asifa Rehman is running a drop in clinic every Wednesday from 10am - 1pm.You are welcome to join us for these one-on-one advice sessions, where you can discuss your employment concerns in complete confidence and for no charge.

Yahoo says it will appeal against the court decisionInternet group Yahoo says it has been ordered to pay $2.7bn (£1.68bn) by a Mexican court.

The reported ruling fol-lows a lawsuit stemming from allegations of breach of contract and lost profits related to a yellow pages listing service.

Yahoo said it “believes the plaintiffs’ claims are with-out merit and will vigor-ously pursue all appeals”.

The lawsuit had been brought by Worldwide Directories SA de CV and Ideas Interactivas SA de CV.

In a statement on its web-site Yahoo said the 49th Civil Court of the Federal District of Mexico City had “entered a non-final judgment of US $2.7 bil-lion against Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo de Mexico” in the case.

Shares in Yahoo, which is based in Sunnyvale, California, fell by 1.4% in after-the-bell trading fol-lowing the news.

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Cllr Ibrar Hussain, who has been a Cllr for Burngreave Ward since May 2000, has relaunched the revised book-let for Muslim burials in Sheffield. The booklet is now revised and updated with all the lat-est details and in smart and shorter version. Copies will be

forwarded to all the local mosques within Sheffield and some community cen-tres.Cllr Ibrar Hussain is long term advocate of good qual-ity bereavement services within Sheffield and has achieved many of the changes for Muslim burials.

Muslim Burial Information Booklet

Research by Sheffield Green Party has found that the local economy could be losing out by £150 million because large Council contracts are going to companies based outside the region. They say every pound the council spends in the local economy helps create work and jobs, putting money in the pockets of local people who in turn use local businesses. Keep-ing money circulating locally will create more jobs and im-prove the lives of local people.

The Council is handing mil-lions of pounds to multinational companies like Veolia and Cap-ita and this could be losing the local economy £150 million a year. The Green Party say: “If we pay Sheffield people to do the work, they spend it in local shops, which are more likely to use local services and suppliers themselves. That means money staying in the Sheffield econo-my for longer and could double the value of every pound the Council spends. “

Contracting Out Could be Losing £150 Million From Local Economy

A ground breaking initia-tive developed by the South Yorkshire Safer Roads Part-nership is being offered to help older people to con-tinue driving safely. The free course, being held at the Lifewise Centre in Rotherham on 10 Decem-ber, aims to support older drivers by providing them with advice and vital infor-mation tailored to meet their needs. Drivers will also be able to take advantage of a practical in-car coaching session to brush up on their driving skills. Data show that older driv-ers, aged 60+, are over represented in collisions when compared to the pro-portion of older drivers on the road. With older drivers more likely to be seriously injured, the course aims to help drivers avoid the pain, suffering and inconvenience of being involved in such an incident. The Safer Roads Partnership will be working in conjunc-tion with Safety 1st Driving

Academy to deliver an en-tertaining and informative presentation at the event as well as offering on the road driving sessions. Attendees will also be able to talk to a range of agen-cies who will be on hand to offer advice on a variety of related topics such as: •general health and wellbe-ing; •eyesight and eye health; •vehicle maintenance; •motoring mobility aids; •alternatives to car travel, with advice on public trans-port options; •the role of the emergency services in the event of a road traffic collision. To book a place at the event, which will be held at the Lifewise Centre on Monday 10 December, start-ing at 10am, call 01709 832 455 or email [email protected]. Places will be allocated on a first come, first served basis so book early to avoid dis-appointment.

Senior Citizens Drive Safe

Save a Life in Just Half an HourThe sight of blood can make even a hard-men weak in the knees.But, honestly, you barely feel a thing – and you don’t even need to look.On my first visit, I felt a little uncomfortable, but was soon relaxed by the staff at Sheffield Donor Centre, on Church Street in the city centre.There is a little pin prick made to the finger, to test the blood’s iron content, before donors go on to make the full dona-tion, done from the comfort of specially designed chairs so people can sit reading a book, newspaper or even their iPhone.The staff have tricks of distraction when making the finger prick and inserting the needle in the crease of your elbow.The entire process only takes about half an hour. However, there is a shortage of donations, particularly from young people and ethnic minorities.An average of 1,046 units of blood are used by South Yorkshire hospitals each week, so donations are in constant de-mand. Sheffield Donor Centre collects just more than 10,000 units of blood each year, a large part of the 46,400 donations made across South Yorkshire each year.But there has been a steep fall in donors over the last three years, from 12,391 in 2009 to just 7,594 so far this year.Of particular concern is that registered

blood donors aged 17 to 24 in South York-shire have almost halved in the period, from 5,239 in 2009 to 2,883 in 2012.Every year, 225,000 new donors are needed nationally to replace existing donors who drop out of the system.A campaign has been launched to target young people, backed by stars from TV soap Hollyoaks, including Jorgie Porter, who plays Theresa McQueen.Holly Mason, lead donor relations man-ager for the National Blood Service in Sheffield, says: “We have many regulars some of whom have donated 75 or even 100 times.“But the shortage of younger donors is a potential problem for the future, because as we lose older donors, there are fewer replacing them.“We take donations of all types but the one that we need the most is O negative, because it can be given to everyone in an emergency situation.”Holly says that if supplies ever run short in one area of the country due to low dona-tions, blood is transported from elsewhere, so the service is able to ensure there is enough to go around. “But we need more people to donate to ensure supplies are healthy in the future,” she says.Of particular concern is lack of donations from people of ethnic minority back-grounds, who have rare blood types. Only 1 per cent of donors are black and 3 per cent Asian around the country.“We are also in need of bone marrow and platelet donors,” Holly says. “Sheffield’s platelet donor base is currently not suf

ficient to support the requirements and at present we require at least 90 more donors to be recruited.“This figure does not sound very high, but when you consider that out of every 10 people who give a sample, only two or three will be potentially suitable.“Additionally, the figure above is purely what our panel requires now and does not take into account attrition. Donors are returned to donating blood for various reasons, and each of these donors has to be replaced for platelet donation. “Platelet donation is a fantastically rewarding expe-rience and can save the lives of up to three adults or 12 babies.”A team of 14 staff are based at the Shef-field Donor Centre, which is open on weekdays and late evenings for people to come after work, collectingblood and platelet donations.Lindsey Marsh has worked there for 37 years. She says: “I’ve given blood and platelets and also benefited from donations because I had to have transfusions due to complications with childbirths.“I am now meeting people giving blood who were brought here as little ones when their parents were donating.“We try to make it a pleasant experience. “People who give blood for the first time can be a little concerned, but we try to allay their fears.“We’ve had Sheffield United players and Brendan Ingle has brought his boxers in to donate,” she says. Donor criteriaThe age criteria for first time donors is 17 to 65. Once a person starts donating, if they donate regularly then there is no upper age limit.Generally, if a person is in good health they are likely to be able to donate. How-ever, anyone who is interested in being

a blood donor and on medication should contact the donor helpline 0300 123 23 23 to check before attending a donor session.The helpline can also be used to find out where local donor sessions are being held in different areas, or to book a session.

Drive to recruit more Asian donors

HELPING to address the shortage of Asian blood donors is Cllr Ibrar Hussain, a member of Sheffield Council, and journal-ist Zeeshan Haider Naqvi, of ILM News, an English-Urdu newspaper which has offices on Abbeydale Road and Riachard Marsden, political correspondant of THE DAILY STAR newspaper, Sheffield.Cllr Hussain, a Labour councillor for 13 years who represents Burngreave ward, has been donating for the last four years.He is now considering signing up to giving platelets and also taking part in a trial scheme through which people agree to give blood more frequently than the normal three-month interval.Cllr Hussain, said: “I decided to sign up because there is such a need for donors. “Blood is a gift from God and if you can help someone, I think you should”.“I feel so positive being able to assist someone who is in need and I would encourage anyone to give blood.”He believes there is a lack of Asian donors because there is ‘not enough information’.He and Zeeshan are now planning to help the blood service with a campaign to recruit more people from within the com-munity.Zeeshan, who has just given blood for the first time, said: “We’ll be working through our newspaper to assist the campaign.”

By: Zeeshan Naqvi ILM NEWS PICTURES: SARAH WASHBOURNE


Pakistan has made education free and compulsory for chil-dren aged between five and 16. Pakistan's National Assembly unanimously passed the right to free and compulsory education bill 2012. The bill was already passed by the Senate, Geo TV reported. The bill also provides

for 10 percent reserved seats for poor children in all private edu-cational institutions. Law break-ers will pay fine up to Rs.50,000 or six months jail. Religious Affairs Minister Syed Khurshid Shah said free and compulsory education for children is the top priority of the government.

As India executed Ajmal Kasab, the lone surviving gunman of the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called upon nations to abolish the death penalty. Ban is inviting a record vote by a General Assembly committee in favour of the call for a moratorium on the use of the death penalty.

India, US and China were among 39 nations voting against the resolution in the Assembly's Third Committee, which deals with social and humanitarian issues, as well as human rights. The non binding draft resolution

got110 votes in favour, with 36 abstentions.

The vote offers the opportu-nity to again encourage Mem-ber States who still practice the death penalty or retain it in law to follow suit as already 150 States have either abolished or do not practice the death penalty. The new resolution, inter alia, calls on all States to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty.

Ban's spokesperson said the Committee's resolution reflects a trend against capital punishment

which has grown stronger across regions, legal traditions and customs since a landmark General Assembly resolution on the topic in 2007.

The Secretary-General saluted this development at a high-level event on the death penalty in New York this July. "He said then that the taking of life is too absolute, too irreversible, for one human being to inflict on another, even when backed by legal process."

Abolish Death Penalty, UN Chief asks Nations

Britain has recognised the National Coali-tion of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces as the legitimate representative of the Syrian people. British Foreign Minister Wil-liam Hague informed the parliament recently in this regard. France recognised the Syrian Opposition in a similar way Nov 14, a move Syria's deputy foreign minister denounced as "immoral".

The European Union's ministerial council for foreign affairs said it had recognised the opposition coalition as a legal representative of the interests of the Syrian people. But it held back from extending its diplomatic rec-ognition, leaving that to be decided by indi-vidual EU member states. The coalition, formed following an opposi-tion conference in Qatar earlier this month, claims to represent 80 percent of all oppo-nents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Britain Recognises Syrian Opposition

PAKISTAN Assembly Passes Compulsory Education Bill

Cllr Ibrar Hussain has been awarded recognition for his out-standing contribution to policing from South Yorkshire Police Authority and the Joint

Secretariat. Cllr Ibrar Hussain has been a member of the author-ity since 2007 and rep-resents the Burngreave ward in Sheffield City Council since May 2000.

Upon receiving the award, Cllr Ibrar thanked all his col-leagues and friends at South Yorkshire Police Authority and Joint Sec-retariat based in Barns-ley for their support and

hard work.Police authorities have come to an end and replaced by police panels and PCC.

Outstanding Contribution Award for Local Councillor

Sheffield has joined 20 cities world wide with a commitment to help improve the lives of 121 million citizens. Sheffield City Council, 20 other global cities and Citymart.com have announced the LLGA Cities Pilot the Future pro-gramme to discover and implement the most promising solutions that meet pressing social and urban challenges.

The LLGA – or Living Labs Global - is a non profit association which promotes new technologies and services that will tackle key urban challenges. Over the coming 18 months, the initiative will evaluate around 1,000 submissions and implement real-life pilots in all partner cities to improve the quality of life of

their 121 million citizens. Sheffield is one of only three partner cities in Britain – the others being York and London .Sheffield has the largest district energy network in the UK and the city is ask-ing for solutions to capture and distribute heat from the city’s industrial processes and redirect into the city’s district energy systems.

The city’s heavy industry means signifi-cant amounts of waste heat from indus-trial processes are being emitted into the atmosphere. Sheffield wants to capture this heat so that it can be distributed over existing networks to warm homes, offices, civic buildings, schools and uni-versities. The city is the perfect pilot area

for partner cities and the private sector to put their collective brain power together to find ways of making it work.

Councillor Jack Scott, Sheffield City Council’s Cabinet Member for Environ-ment, Recycling and Streetscene said: “This programme gives cities like Shef-field the opportunity to tackle some of the most difficult and important issues we face, by coming up with new ideas that benefit Sheffield and other major cities around the world.

We want to find innovative ways of har-nessing the energy that is produced in Sheffield 's manufacturing and use it in our city’s heat networks.

Sheffield’s Global Commitment

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Incoming Bank of England Governor Mark Carney was left under no illusions over the perils facing the British economy today as UK growth prospects were slashed again.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is now pencilling in a 0.1% contraction for the UK this year and growth of just 0.9% in 2013 - well below its last set of forecasts in May.

The latest gloom comes as the independent Office for Budget Responsibility prepares to make a knife-edge verdict on the state of the public finances and Chan-

cellor George Osborne's fiscal rules. The OECD said today that the Chancellor could be forced to abandon the second of his targets - to put debt as a share of the economy on a downward course by 2015/6 - if the economy disappoints.

The thinktank, which is worried about the lingering risks from the eurozone crisis and the impact of food and energy bills, said: “In the event of lower than expected growth, the flexibility of the fiscal mandate should be utilised... even though this may imply pushing out the debt target.”

UK faces slow recovery as growth forecasts slashed


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Chanting "Yes We Can", Barack Hussein Obama made history four years ago as he became America's first African-American president. Last month, he did it again to re-tain the world's most powerful of-fice. But the path to victory over his Republican challenger Mitt Romney for the son of a Ken-yan father and a white American mother from Kansas with a "funny name", as Obama himself once put it, wasn't as easy this time around.Catapulted to power on the slogan of 'hope' and 'change' with a land-slide victory over Vietnam War veteran Republican John McCain then, he had lost some of that aura as he sought to capture the magic of 2008 with the new slogan of "Forward".

After winning the presidency for the second time, Obama said: "To-night, more than 200 years after a former colony won the right to determine its own destiny, the task of perfecting our union moves for-ward."

Obama entered the fray with a no mean record - end of Iraq war, death of 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden to a signature health-care law and bringing the US out of the throes of a recession, yet a still slowly recovering economy and loss of tens of thousands of

jobs threatened to bar his return and take the shine off some of his lofty campaign promises. Many began derisively referring to him as a "fallen angel". But some encouraging economic news in recent days - good jobs numbers, growing consumer confidence, improving housing market, a ris-ing stock market and a display of cool leadership during superstorm Sandy helped him pull it off.Born in Hawaii Aug 4, 1961, Obama was raised with help from his grandfather, who served in Pat-ton's army, and his grandmother, who worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle manage-ment at a bank. He lived in Indo-nesia from 1967 to 1971 with his mother and her second husband.

After working his way through school with the help of scholar-ship money and student loans, Obama moved to Chicago to work as a community organizer before going on to Harvard Law School, where he was elected as the first African-American president of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a civil rights attorney in Chi-cago and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School from 1992 to 2004, served three terms in the Illinois Senate from 1997 to 2004, running un-successfully for the US House of Representatives in 2000.

Coming into limelight with a key-note address at the Democratic National Convention in July 2004, he won the Senate election in No-vember 2004 before throwing his hat into the ring for the presiden-tial race in February 2007 where after a bitter fight with former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, he won his party's nomination. The rest is history.Just nine months into his presi-dency, catching the imagination of the world as he overcame chal-lenges about his place of birth, his religion and his race, Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize "for his ex-traordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and coop-eration between peoples".

Barack Obama Again Rewrites History

A 16-year-old schoolgirl is be-lieved to have become the first woman to wear a hijab while speaking at the despatch box in the House of Commons. Sumaiya Karim, from Wok-ingham, Berkshire, was speak-ing during a debate on whether children should be given a greater say over the contents of the national curriculum, as the Youth Parliament held its an-nual session in the Commons.

Speaking out in favour of a radical overhaul of the system, which would give youngsters greater life skills, Sumaiya is

thought to have made a small piece of history as she ap-peared at the despatch box in the Muslim headscarf. She said: "If it's true then it's amaz-ing. Wearing the hijab was my own choice. It's a choice that I made a few years ago when I found the hijab. "It's about when the time is right and the time was right for me."

Sumaiya, currently studying biology, chemistry, maths and history at A-level, wants to become a surgeon before em-barking on a political career later in life. She added: "Today was a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Our national curriculum is such an important issue. We live in such a diverse society and it's important that we are more culturally aware."

In her speech, she called on ministers to allow a committee of young people to review the national curriculum, which she said should include a greater focus on political education, as well as sex and relationship advice.

"Some people in this country are fortunate enough to have access to political knowledge through their teaching but

again that is only some. If we live in the same country, we have the same rights, should we not have access to the same teaching?"

In a vote, the youngsters chose to make national curriculum reform their campaign for the coming year. Only 23 mem-bers voted to keep public trans-port as the issue for the youth parliament, whilst 154 voted in favour of making the national curriculum the campaign for the year.

First Woman to Wear Hijab at House of Commons Despatch Box

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As teen activist Malala Yousaf-zai recovers after being shot by the Taliban for advocating girl's education, Pakistan's Educa-tion Minister Sardar Shah Je-han said spreading education in Taliban-infested areas topped the government's agenda. Jehan also said terrorism is adversely effecting their goal of education for all. "There is disturbance in some regions. We are planning special programmes for those ar-eas," Jehan said referring to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), an area domi-nated by the Taliban. FATA is a semi-autonomous tribal region in northwest Pakistan, lying be-tween Afghanistan to the west and north, and the provinces of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to the east and Balochistan to the south.

Jehan's comments come as Malala, the 15-year-old student who became a symbol of resist-ance of the Taliban's anti-girl ed-ucation stand, is recovering from a bullet injury in Britain. She could spend as long as two years in the UK, undergoing surgery, rehabilitation and counselling.The minister had recently called Malala a "symbol of courage" for Pakistan. Malala, who be-longs to Mingora in Swat district of FATA, came to prominence in 2009 at the age of 11 by writing a diary for BBC Urdu about life under the Taliban. She was shot in the head Oct 9 for her cam-paign for girl's education. The Taliban said they had targeted her for "promoting secularism", and radicals are planning a fatwa (religious diktat) against her.

According to Unicef figures, about a third of Pakistani chil-dren aged between five and nine are enrolled in primary educa-tion, but only 51 per cent of girls are enrolled in primary schools, compared to 60 per cent boys. Two-thirds of girls and almost half of boys do not complete pri-mary school. Only 42 per cent of Pakistani women are literate, and the proportion falls to a dismal seven per cent in FATA.Jehan also pitched against Tali-ban's anti-girl education policy. "This is the mindset that does not let us progress. We have several challenges in front of us. Terror-ism is one of the biggest chal-lenges. Other than that, budget is a constraint because spending on defence is high due to terrorism," he added.

Education in Taliban Areas Priority: Pakistani Minister

Pakistani television channel Geo News says its presenter Hamid Mir has been targeted by a bomb which failed to go off in Islamabad. Police defused the device which was attached to the underside of his car.

The Pakistani Taliban threat-ened to attack Mr Mir and other journalists for coverage of the militants' shooting of schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai last month.

"It's a message to me as well as Geo and the journalist com-munity in Pakistan," Mr Mir said. "They want to stop us from speaking the truth but I want to tell them that we will not be de-terred."

Interior Minister Rehman Malik visited Mr Mir at his home in the

capital and offered a reward for information on who was behind the plot. Mr Mir is already pro-vided with a police guard following the shooting of Malala in October. She and two other girls were injured but survived.

Hamid Mir had spoken of receiving threats before the attack on her, and correspondents say he is thought to have other enemies besides the Taliban.

Pakistan TV Anchor Hamid Mir Escapes Car Bomb Plot

Atrocities are going on in the world but the international com-munity chooses to ignore and downscale the extent to which its happening. Where much of the world has turned a blind eye, a leading international rights group is ac-cusing Burma security forces of supporting some of the brutal anti-Muslim violence last month that forced 35,000 people from torched homes. The allegations came one day before President Barack Obamas visit to Burma after a year and a half of unprec-edented democratic reforms in the country. Human Rights Watch said sol-diers in some parts of western Rakhine state tried to stop Bud-dhist attacks and protect Muslim civilians, known as Rohingya. But the group said Burma needs to do much more to protect the stateless minority, who are de-

nied citizenship because they are considered foreigners from Bangladesh. The New York-based rights group released new satellite imagery detailing exten-sive destruction of Muslim areas across Rakhine state. There was no immediate com-ment from Burma's government on the allegations. There are conflicting reports of the exact number of people mur-dered or those foced out of their homes in Burma. We chose to call the country Burma and not the term Myanmar. That’s the label put on the country by the military junta. The country is a totalitarian state run by a small group of military officers. The Military Goverment has named the country Myanmar.Burma is rotten to the core - money, corruption, military us-ing forced labor to build oil and gas pipelines. I would call this

country part of what has been called pipeline-estan. Here we go again, oil and gas, that’s the interest Obama and the US has there, oil and gas again. The US is in place to make ob-servations on the state of affairs but has opted to stay stumm for its own gain.The Obama administration has listed some of the sanctions that were in place - the original sanc-tions that have been in place for some decade or so were not very effective, but the Obama admin-istration has released those and it’s not making a demand for transparency in human rights in Burma. The UN is not demanding trans-parency and the US is not de-manding information about hu-man rights either.

Burma Accused of Backing Genocide

Rotherham’s twice nominated “Museum of the Year”, Clifton Park Museum, is set to bring traditional festive fun to the bor-ough with a very special Victo-rian Christmas event.Taking place on Sunday De-cember 9 between 12 noon and 5pm, the day of activities will feature a selection of traditional food, warm from the Victorian

Range and the chance to create Victorian Christmas decora-tions, cards and biscuit decorat-ing, Santa’s Grotto 12.30pm – 2.15pm and 2.30pm-4.15pm for children aged up to 10 years (£3 per child),Festive families will also be able to see who’s been naught or nice with Letter from Santa in the ar-chives (for ages 4 to 10), wreath

making for anyone aged 12 and over (£5 per wreath, booking in advance essential) and the oppor-tunity to make the festive season complete with a table centrepiece workshop in the Garden Room (£2.50 per centrepiece).For more information and to book your place on the Wreath Making workshop, please call the museum on 01709 336633.

Enjoy a Traditional Christmas

The Governments Energy Bill will see energy bills go up by £20 a year towards infrastructure projects to encourage green ener-gy, reaching at least £100 extra a year by 2020. The general public are expected to foot the bill for new infrastructure while energy companies are making millions in profits, not reinvesting their money into carbon reducing projects. The government also neglects to set carbon reducing targets leaving them until 2016, the Tories once again delaying mak-ing any environmental commit-ments. This omission from the bill shows that the Lib Dems do not have any influence over their coalition partners as this

is a policy they have previously championed. Not setting targets leaves huge uncertainty for in-vestors and businesses. Jack Scott, Cabinet Member for Environment, Waste and Street-scene said: “The country is facing an ener-gy crisis and more action needs to be taken to tackle this issue. In Sheffield, we are commit-ted to reducing energy demand to reduce carbon emissions and reduce the burdens on fam-ily budgets. We have delivered a city-wide free insulation pro-gramme covering over 30,000 homes over the past four years to do this. We're now planning how

to deliver even greater benefits by delivering the Green Deal and developing the City's heat net-works. Next year, we also want to undertake England's largest energy switch so far, to help Sheffield people get better deals. People have already seen their bills go up by more than £200 in the last 2 years, it's more im-portant than ever that we have a competitive energy market that delivers fair prices and works in the public interest. There needs to be an overhaul in the energy market and the creation of a tough new watchdog with pow-ers to force energy companies to pass on price cuts.

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Policemen in Britain are be-ing required to handle petty squabbles on Facebook, Twitter and other social net-work sites on daily basis when they could be tackling more serious crimes.

According to officers, they are wasting valuable time and resources tackling inter-net users directing abuse at each other.

In most of the case, police have to tell victims to delete their tormentors from their networks, but the Crown Prosecution Service says a "few dozen" more serious incidents have led to court, with the figure growing rap-idly in recent months.

According to new statistics, at least three arrests are be-ing made every day for sending offensive messages

via phones and computers, including people harassing ex-partners by text message and making hoax threats as well as comments on social media.

In one case, a young woman approached police in Dorset complaining that she had received death threats on Fa-cebook. On investigation, it was found she had actually threatened to spread mali-cious rumours about another woman, who had replied: "I hope you die then."

British Police Busy with petty Facebook Fights Pakistan President Asif Ali

Zardari has said the nation is taking unprecedented steps to maintain peace with India and Islamabad will not let Islam be hijacked despite terror-ist groups' attempts to impose their agenda.

Addressing the Developing Eight, or D-8, conference here Thursday after taking over its chairmanship from Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan for two years, Zardari spoke on a host of issues including ter-rorism, democracy and Israel-Palestine conflict.

Calling on the members of D-8 to work as a catalyst for peace and prosperity in the world, Zardari said Pakistan and its people wanted peace. D-8 is an economic development al-liance of eight developing countries with large Muslim populations and comprises Bangladesh, Egypt, Indonesia,

Iran, Malaysia, Nigeria, Turkey and Pakistan.Highlighting the importance of democracy, Zardari said that democracy was at the very heart of Pakistan's identity as it was founded through demo-cratic means.

He said the Pakistani govern-ment was making unprecedent-ed moves to make peace with India and also supported the peace process in Afghanistan.On terrorism, Zardari said that terrorist groups seek to im-pose their agenda but Pakistan would not let Islam be hijacked, adding that Pakistan would continue to fight against the dark and destructive agenda of terrorists.Condemning Israeli attacks on Gaza, the Pakistani president said Palestinians had been awaiting promised self deter-mination for decades and the D-8 nations must look into this matter.

‘Pakistan taking unprec-edented steps for peace’ Pepsi plans to launch a ver-

sion of its cola drink that it claims acts as a fat blocker. The Pepsi Special is made with dextrin - an indigest-ible form of dietary fibre. Studies on rats suggest this can reduce the absorption of fat in the body and lower cholesterol levels. There is no information about how much sugar and corn-syrup it contains, compared to stand-ard Pepsi, but a spokesman said it would have a "crisp refreshing and unique" after-taste.The drink, which will first

be sold in Japan, comes in a "luxury" gold and black bottle with the Pepsi logo emblazoned on the side, the newspaper said. Pepsi Spe-cial will cost 150 Yen (1.20 pounds).There is no word yet on if and when Pepsi Special will go on sale in the US and Eu-rope.

Pepsi to launch Fat-Blocking Soft Drink

Engineering mini factories, and high tech design and sound studi-os - welcome to the classrooms of the future, and the new £9.9 mil-lion University Technical Col-lege Sheffield opening to 14 to 19-year-olds in September 2013. UTC Sheffield is a brand new type of college, the first of its kind in Yorkshire , that will train the next generation in the creative and industrial skills that Sheffield City Region's businesses need to

grow. Applications are being ac-cepted now. Go to www.utcshef-field.org.uk. Young people from Sheffield City Region will develop the academic and technical skills to secure jobs in the advanced engi-neering and manufacturing, and creative media industries sectors, which are two key sectors for growth locally, regionally and in-ternationally. Students starting at 14 will still receive a broad edu-

cation enabling them to choose from a wide range of options such as work or university afterwards. The skills and qualifications they will gain are recognised byemployers, and will be transfer-able to other institutions if they decide to move on from the UTC Sheffield at the age of 16. The UTC Sheffield is offering an exciting new choice for young people in Sheffield City Region. Students will learn how to make,

create and innovate, gaining a well rounded education steeped in practical skills, and academic and vocational qualifications, leading to real jobs or university afterwards. There's been a lot of interest at the information ses-sions that have already been run for young people, parents and teachers. Students will study for an engi-neering or creative digital diplo-ma as well as GCSEs or A-levels in English, maths, humanities and science together with quali-fications in a foreign language and business. Staff will include trained teachers and those from technical backgrounds. The dress code will be business-wear, re-lated to the world of work, rather than a traditional uniform and the attendance hours will be longer to give real life preparation for work. Every child will be known because the UTC Sheffield is a small and specialist institution. Students will also gain an extra year's worth of learning as attend-

ance hours are longer to reflect the typical working day. Employers have helped to design the lessons, and will be involved in teaching. More than 30 local and regional employers are al-ready actively involved in sup-porting the project by helping to shape the curriculum and its con-tent. Businesses will also provide project based work placements, sponsorship and they have had input into the building design. Supporters include Siemens, Firth Rixson, Rolls Royce, New-burgh Engineering, Boeing, Tata Steel, Forgemasters, Highlander, Technophobia, BBC Radio Shef-field and HR Media. Construction of the UTC Shef-field, on Shoreham Street , be-gan in September 2012. The three-storey building, which also features a rooftop five-a-side football pitch, is being built by Wates Construction, funded by the Department for Education and designed by HLM Archi-tects. There are 240 places avail-

able in the first year, after which the numbers will increase to a maximum of 600 places overall. Based in the heart of the Creative Industries Quarter, the college is connected to the main rail and bus transport hubs. Applications are being accepted from young people in Sheffield, Barnsley, Doncaster, Rotherham, Chesterfield , Bolsover and Bas-setlaw. To download the new prospectus, or find out how your business can get involved, go to www.utcsheffield.org.uk. The UTC Sheffield application was initiated by Sheffield City Council and has been sponsored and led by The Sheffield College with Sheffield Hallam University and Sheffield Chamber of Com-merce and Industry. Sheffield City Council is providing the land on a 125-year lease at a pep-percorn rent. Planning permis-sion for the UTC Sheffield was granted in August 2012.

University Techinical College Sheffield Gets Off The GroundBy:Amar Saleem

Business Development Manager, Sheffield Chamber of Commerce, Email: [email protected]

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Whistling woods international and bradford college to launch best film school in world. Leading Colleges from UNESCO’s first City of Film and Bollywood have joined forces to create new learning opportuni-ties for aspiring film makers by launching a global film school that aims to be the ‘best film school in the world’. In a project backed by the British Council, Bradford Col-lege and Whistling Woods In-ternational have formed a part-nership to open a Film School which will be based in Bradford College’s beautiful Old Build-ing. From autumn 2013 students will be able to study a BA (Hons) Film and BA (Hons) Animation. They will enjoy the opportunity to study at the Whistling Woods campus in Mumbai and experi-ence the Indian Film industry first hand. Whistling Woods International – Asia’s premier Film, Television, Animation and Media Arts institute – is rated amongst the 10 best film-schools in the world by ‘The Hollywood Reporter’.Bradford has a fantastic film her-itage and a fast growing young population.

This is a great way for Bradford to live up its UNESCO title with a truly international partnership and help to develop the film makers of the future. vAs a loca-tion, Bradford evokes creativity; it is culturally diverse and has an abundance of stunning areas in which to film. Over the years Bradford has produced some amazing creative talent, and now by hosting its own International film school, the level of creativ-ity will continue to flourish. Subhash Ghai, Chairman of Whistling Woods International, said, “It is a great privilege for Whistling Woods to be associ-ated with a college of this stature internationally. We have found a perfect partner in Bradford College.” Whistling Woods In-ternational, commented, “Our relationship with Bradford Col-lege has been one of trust and great success. We share the same vision of having a truly Interna-tional Film School in the UK. It is exciting to be associated with a renowned Institution such as Bradford College and we are humbled by the support offered to us by the British Councils in India and the UK”

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The downfall of Dennis McShane eventu-ally came at the hands of a parliamentary committee, chaired by fellow Rotherham MP Kevin Barron. After a lengthy crimi-nal investigation which was bizarrely dropped, it was the Rht Hon Gentleman of The SPPC which found grave and dishon-est wrong doings by McShane in relation to his expenses claims. McShane a pro European, Zionist politician had concoct-ed an elaborate charade whereby he would submit expenses claims for a variety of work throughout Europe. The European policy Institute a supposed left wing intel-lectual organisation was a recurring theme in Mcshanes expenses claims.

Only unfortunately for McShane this was found to not exist as presented by Mc-Shane, but was a loose network with no office or salaried staff and had the names concocted by McShane as bogus directors, together with his brothers name and Den-nis McShane himself as controlling the bank account. In essence he would submit himself an invoice for expenses and then write a cheque out pocketing the money from the public purse. The committee in its summation found that his actions were the gravest case of deceit to come before them and the invoices Dennis McShane submitted were plainly intended to deceive the parliamentary expenses authority.

Dennis McShane was never a likeable man or politician. His ample egotism and arrogance, odd attributes for a public serv-ant, would manifest on many an occasion, together with a burgeoning talent for alien-ating people and a reputation for putting his foot in it, when opening his mouth. As he did so when he made the sweeping statement that Muslims needed to choose between terrorism and the British way of life. On another occasion escorting a group of constituents around Parliament, he made the comment that all Pakistanis are far more interested in flash cars than educating their children. Then upon hear-ing the call to prayer (azaan) as a reminder on the phone of one of these constituents, he blurted out that he was completely against such things and how would they like it if a Jew had his call to prayer on his phone. These comments were made to a bewildered multi racial group of his own constituents. He was also credited with being Israel’s best puppet and according to former ambassador and human rights activist Craig Murray “the most reliable

Israeli mouth piece in the house of com-mons”. He is still practising this recently tweeting “ London blitz era sirens on to-day as Islamists send rockets to kill Jews live on radio “.

Now to some of you reading this may come as somewhat of a surprise at Mc-Shanes advocacy and all round obsession with Zionism & Israel. As a former MP for a constituency with many sympathetic to the Palestinian occupation, he was a frequent attendant at functions hosted by many such sympathizers Muslims, Chris-tians and others alike. These same people are wondering now as we reflect on Mc-Shanes career, as to what kind of an indi-vidual did we actually have representing us?

A story comes to mind of an interesting early encounter with McShane. At the outbreak of the Afghan war he was speak-ing to a hastily assembled gathering of the Muslim community at a local hotel in

Rotherham. I remember, along with my friend, asking a question which must have reacted badly with McShane, to which he gave a drizzly patronising response. After the gathering had finished we made our way to meet McShane and possibly get him to elaborate. Initially all smiles, upon noticing the room now empty with only a few labour back slappers remaining, he turned into a pit-bull, with lowered eye brow aggressively pointing he barked, “The papers had better not print that” and then went on to mum-ble something incomprehensible. One of the backslappers now a Labour Councillor then proceeded to lead him away.

That was my first encounter with the real Dennis McShane. I would just add for the record that having mentioned this to another senior Labour parliamentarian at a drinks party, I was then contacted by a one Jonathan Pollard I believe of the Mail paper group, requesting that I relay the details of this shambolic encounter in all its titillating detail. I declined fuelled by a loyalty for the Labour party and not af-fection for McShane.

Talking of labour and its recent troubles, caused by Dennis McShanes deception. Whilst previously before he was exposed, you could have put McShane butt naked on a donkey and sent him down Rother-ham High St and Labour still would have won, it is looking decisively rocky for the

new candidate Sarah Champion. Even in safe seats you get the labour leader Ed Milliband popping round to lend a hand as I found when I met him outside Moorgate Mosque, along with Lord Ahmed. Al-though The Respect Party are adding to labours wounds, I do predict as I write this pr-election article that Labour will hang on to its seat albeit with a reduced majority and Sarah champion would have the mak-ings of a very good Parliamentarian for the People of Rotherham.

By:-Jaan M. [email protected]

The Many Faces of Dennis McShaneSheffield City Council has picked up a unique nation-al award for their work on tackling night time noise nuisance. This is just two years on from the Coun-cil’s Environmental Pro-tection Team winning the John Connell Local Au-thority Award. That award recognised the promotion of initiatives that made a positive re-duction in excessive noise in the community. The John Connell Special Commendation Award from the Noise Abatement Society celebrates unsung public sector heroes who have worked consistently and tirelessly, often be-yond the call of duty, to achieve the goal of a qui-eter, healthier and safer

environment. It is the first time this award has been given. The Council’s Integrat-ed Night Noise Service works closely with South Yorkshire Police and Shef-field Homes. This unique partnership tackles noise nuisance and low level anti social behaviour and has dem-onstrated year on year im-provements since it began in 2009. Complaints are now re-solved within two hours as against the previous times-cale of 10 weeks - result-ing in dramatic benefits for the local community and high levels of customer satisfaction.

Award-Winning Noise Nui-sance Team Triumphs Again

From easing digestive woes to zapping mould, cloves have myriad wonderful uses

Cloves are a truly versatile spice These pungent brown buds, a staple in cooking, are also used to add a warm, sweet, aromatic flavour to

everything. Its mild anaes-thetic properties make it a popular toothache remedy – oil of clove can be found on any chemist's shelf. But you might be surprised to learn that cloves can also help re-

lieve cold symptoms, kill mould, treat acne, repel bugs and even fight cancer.Clear your head and chestFor centuries, cloves have been embraced for their soothing, congestion-reliev-ing, anti-inflammatory prop-erties. Clove is very warming and it helps reduce mucus. It's very good for reducing symptoms of bronchitis and upper respiratory tract infec-tions.Cloves work from the outside in as well Acupuncturist and massage therapist Jennifer Jones suggests adding a few drops of clove oil to any mas-sage base oil to rub into the neck, shoulders and chest. Or try diffusing it through a burner or iodizer. The volatile oils will be breathed in and will carry out their immune-strengthening, anti-microbial duties from the lungs.

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Local Green Party council-lors Rob Murphy and Jillian Creasy, plus other Green ac-tivists, are working alongside local residents to tackle litter in Sharrow. The Greens organised a Community Litter Pick on 25th November to collect litter in Vincent Road, South View Road and neighbour-ing roads. Lots of residents and other interested people joined them that day to help tidy up the area.

Rob Murphy said “Jillian Creasy and I know that peo-ple want less litter on our streets. We've already asked for more litter bins and street cleaning in the area. Also, we’ve talked to local resi-dents about the new alternate week bin collections.” “That’s why we’ve organised this Community Litter Pick on 25th November. The more people that join us, the bigger the area we can tidy.”

Greens work with residents to tackle Litter

Sheffield Hallam MP and Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, visited traders in Millhouses to back their request for the local Council to help boost trade.The Millhouses Traders Association hoped that Christmas shoppers could use the car park in the old Abbeydale Grange School site but their request was refused by the Labour run council on the basis of ‘health and safety’.

Nick is calling on the Council to see sense and arrange for the car park to be temporarily used for car parking. Nick also congratulated the owners of the nearby Millhouses pub, who are allowing

the public to use its car park before the pub opens at midday. Nick said:- “At a time when small businesses and retailers are doing their best to make ends meet, the last thing they need is a ‘can’t do’ Labour Council. It is deeply frustrat-ing that Millhouses traders are not being supported by the Council.

“I’m delighted that the Millhouses pub is showing the Council how it should be done when it comes to community spirit. I would urge the Council to follow their example and think again.” Simon Argall from Millhouses pub said:

“Being part of the local community is part of our ethos and we are keen to do all we can to make it easier for people visiting the area.

“However, we all feel that more support should be given by the City Council to the Traders Association which is working hard to keep their businesses growing and offering local employment opportunities. “This simple request would give them the best possible chance to increase the number of visitors to the local area, particularly in the run up to the festive season.”

Clegg backs ‘can do’ community over ‘can’t do’ Council on Millhouses Christmas parking


PROPERTY CORNER END OF YEAR REVIEW

Are We On The Road To Recovery

Mohammed Mahroof BSc (Hons) MRICS Consultant

Mark Jenkinson & Son

ARE WE ON THE ROAD TO RECOVERY?It is the time of year leading up to Christmas that people re-view the ups and downs of the preceding years, and generally over the holiday period decide or plan for the future. Wheth-er these plans are followed through is always a challenge.

I will begin from a chartered surveyor's perspective, the people on the coalface of the market. I will try to give the view of the optimists and the pessimists.

THE OPTIMISTSThere are a great many opti-mists who are commenting that an improvement in the market cannot be far away and there is a great deal of positivity in this comment. As you can see through history, the demand for a few commodities has never really diminished and that does include property. If you bought a two bedroomed resi-dential property in the 1970s, for example, at say a price of £4,000 around Sharrowvale, the same property will prob-ably be worth around £150k plus in today's market.

Therefore, in the long term your capital value has really increased.In terms of the market in gen-eral, if you have access to fi-nance then many people will argue this is a great time to buy. The front end of the market, the auction room, is a barometer of confidence. Yes, it is challeng-ing but there are buyers and, generally speaking, sales are quite strong.

Therefore, the optimists feel this is a cyclical economic phe-nomenon which is happening and will continue to happen throughout history. But the un-derlying demand for property carries on rising. They point to the rising economies in the world where land and property prices continue to see an up-ward trend.

THE PESSIMISTSIt is argued by many that it is easier to follow this theory because all around us there is bad news on employment fig-ures, austerity measures both in the public and private sectors, and a general feeling of unease amongst many people. If they are in employment they do not feel secure. If they are not, then clearly they would feel economically inactive.

They would argue that it is harder to get on the property ladder because of a lack of fi-

nance. Investors do not want to invest because the returns, in particular in the commercial sector, are poor. Many pessi-mists feel we are in for a very long road to recovery and it is going to get worse before it gets better.In the environment we find ourselves in we feel more com-fortable to follow this theory.

Clearly, you as an individual will have your own views as to whether “the glass is half full or half empty” and will make up your own mind as to the condition of the property market. A lot of people feel the answer lies in the middle, heading towards the realms of opportunities that we will not see again in our lifetimes and I can follow that thought.

Turning to thoughts on the dif-ferent market sectors of the property industry, I will com-ment on each sector as follows:

RESIDENTIAL MARKETThis is the market we are most-ly familiar with as we all either rent or own property. Arguably there are areas in and around the capital which have seen in-creases in value. This is also true for many towns and cities in areas which have tradition-ally been popular. We will all know such areas. For example, in Sheffield, areas in the south west are holding values similar to the peak. The main differ-ence being it is taking longer to agree sales.

The private rented sector is also seeing a rise. Investors seem particularly keen to in-vest in smaller properties at the lower end of the value scale because the rental return pro-duces a good yield. There are many such investors who are picking up stock through the auction room. It is argued the private rental sector will see a rise in the future as people be-come more comfortable with renting, as is the case in many parts of Europe.

The residential market will in-evitably see an improvement as time goes on, simply because we all need somewhere to live.

COMMERCIAL MARKETThe commercial market is made up of offices, industrial and retail property.The office market is facing a substantial challenge. Rents are not at the levels of a few years ago. There seems to be many empty offices across the country. Some of these of-fices are being developed into residential accommodation to

bring buildings back into eco-nomic use. The clarification or caution needed here is that the prime office market is a lot stronger than the secondary market. This is the market we are seeing as being the biggest challenge.

Industrial space is still quite positive as people look to this market for start up businesses. Clearly this is good news and can be seen as the beginnings of the “green shoots of recov-ery”.

Retail property is another mar-ket which is seeing signs of improvement. Good locations are seeing strong demand with rental levels remaining quite strong. The secondary market is rather more challenging. In-vestors are keen to buy well let retail property for which there seems to be a shortage.

It is clear that the commercial market is strongly aligned to the economy and changes in the economic forecast are sen-sitive to this sector of the prop-erty market.

LANDA lot of investors are coming back to this market as land is available at affordable prices. The forward thinking investors are buying land for the inevita-ble future demand, in particular from the residential market.Land is a commodity that will always be in demand.

INVESTMENT PROPER-TYThe demand for well let prop-erty on long leases is fairly strong. Supply is the key issue in this sector. As returns from banks are not that good, invest-ment in a well yielding prop-erty is fuelling this demand.

In conclusion, coming back to the question, “Are we on the road to recovery?” The answer may differ depending on who you are talking to. This clearly sends out a message that the market is at a crossroads and we are certainly beginning to see a readjustment that could potentially lead to a more posi-tive market.

I would like to say that the feedback I receive from read-ers encourages and stimulates me. Please continue to ask questions. If you want to con-tact me please call me on 0114 2760151/0787 901 5095 or through ILM.

Ofsted chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw has said, for millions of children in England, their quality of schooling is too dependent on where they live.

More than two million chil-dren are still receiving a sub-standard education, with many youngsters facing a postcode lottery to attend a decent school, Ofsted has warned.

Chief inspector Sir Michael Wilshaw said there are "stark inequities" across England, with a child's chances of be-ing taught at a good school far too dependent on where they live. Much more must be done to deal with the wide variations in standards he

said, in his first annual report.In some areas children have a less than 50% chance of at-tending a school that is good or better, and it is not just those in poorer areas that are affected. While the overall quality of schools has im-proved in the last few years, this is not consistent across the country. A primary school pupil in England has, on av-erage, a seven in 10 (69%) chance of being in a good or outstanding school, the report says, but elsewhere a child has a better than 90% chance, and in others a less than 50% chance.

The report shows there have been overall improvements in the last few years, with 70% of schools now rated good or

outstanding compared with 64% five years ago. An extra half a million pupils are now being taught in good or better schools, it says. But this also means that almost 2.3 million children are still attending a "small minority" of schools that are less than good.

It warns that the overall rise in the performance of Eng-land's schools masks real challenges for the education system.

Sir Michael said that Ofsted wanted to "shine a spotlight" on the parts of the country that are under-performing - particularly at primary level, which includes examining why some more affluent ar-eas are lagging behind.

Ofsted ‘Postcode Lottery’ Warning


1. Barley ( jau):Good in fever, when used in a soup form.

2. Dates - Khujoor The Prophet ( SAW) said that a house without dates has no food. It should also be eaten at the time of childbirth.

3. Figs - Anjeer It is a fruit from paradise and a cure for piles.

4. Grapes - Angur The Prophet (SAW) was very fond of grapes – it purifies the blood, provides vigour and health, strengthens the kidneys and clears the bowels.

5. Honey - Shahed Considered the best remedy for diarrhoea when mixed in hot water. It is the food of foods, drink of drinks and drug of drugs. It is used for creating ap-

petite, strengthening the stom-ach, eliminating phlegm; as a meat preservative, hair condi-tioner, eye soother and mouth-wash. It is extremely beneficial in the morning in warm water.

6. Melon - Kharbuza / Tar-boozThe Prophet (SAW) said: ‘None of your women who are preg-nant and eat of water melon will fail to produce offspring that is good in countenance’

7. Milk - DoodhThe Prophet (SAW) said: ‘milk wipes away heat from the heart just as the finger wipes away sweat from the brow’. It strengthens the back, improves the brain, renews vision and drives away forgetfulness.

8. Mushroom - Khambi :The Prophet ( SAW ) said that mushroom is a good cure for the

eyes; it also serves as a form of birth control and arrests paraly-sis.

9. Olive Oil - Zaitun Excellent treatment for skin and hair, delays old age, and treats inflammation of the stomach.

10. Pomegranate - anaar The Prophet ( SAW) said it cleanses you of Satan and evil aspirations for 40 days.

11. Vinegar - Sirka A food Prophet Muhamed (SAW) used to eat with olive oil.

12. Water - Paani The Prophet ( SAW) said the best drink in this world is water, when you are thirsty drink it by sips and not gulps. Gulping pro-duces sickness of the liver.

12 Foods Favoured by our Beloved Prophet Peace Be Upon Him, and their Benefits

Curry was celebrated in all its forms at an awards event in south London. The British Curry Awards received over 270,000 public nominations from din-ers across the UK, making it the biggest curry awards in the UK. Restaurants were judged on crite-

ria including menu choice, wine list, exterior and interior decor and plate presentation.Prime Minister David Cameron said, "It's often said that curry is Britain's national dish and it's easy to see why. It's not just the flavour served up in the 1,000s of

curry restaurants across the coun-try, it is the welcome too. Those who work in the curry industry enliven Britain's high streets, boost local economies and con-tribute to local communities."

British Love of Curry Looks Set to Continue

The winners in full:• Best Delivery Restaurant/Take-away by Justeat.com - Mushtaqs (Hamilton, Lanarkshire)• Best Restaurant Scotland - Taj Indian (Prestwick)• Best Restaurant North East - Aagrah (Leeds) • Best Spice Restaurant North West - Indian Ocean (Ashton-under-Lyne)• Best Spice Restaurant Midlands - Itihaas (Birmingham)• Best Newcomer Restaurant Midlands - Fiver Rivers A La Carte (Walsall)• Best Restaurant Wales - Rasoi Indian Kitchen (Swansea)• Best Restaurant South East - Haweli Indian Restaurant (Twyford, Berkshire)• Best Newcomer Restaurant South East - Shampan 4 - The Spinning Wheel (Westerham, Kent)• Best Restaurant South West - Spice Lodge (Cheltenham)• Best Restaurant South West - The Mint Room (Yeovil, Somerset)• Best Restaurant Central London & City - Bombay Palace (Paddington)• Best Newcomer Restaurant Central London & City - Chakra (Notting Hill)• Best Restaurant London Suburbs - Chak 89 (Surrey)• Best in Casual Dining - The Chilli Pickle (Brighton, East Sussex)• Special Inspiration Award - Dipna Anand of Brilliant Restaurant - Female Chef

The cost of parking your car con-tinues to rise according to sta-tistical data, but new proposals drawn up to cut obesity rates in the UK and get people walking or cycling to school and work could see parking charges rise to prohibitive levels. Since 2008 fees have more than doubled in Doncaster to £1.80 per hour, while average costs in Manches-ter have risen to £2.70 per hour over the same five-year period – up by 40%. The London bor-ough of Westminster increased parking costs by 40p to £4.80 an hour this year, but it is thought new guidelines could see charges for leaving your vehicle increase nationwide further still.Health bosses have called for the increase in an attempt to force motorists to walk short distance they would otherwise drive, ad-

dressing obesity rates in the UK. People are being encour-aged to ditch their cars, ending the “bad habit” trips of less than a mile. As a result, town halls across Britain have been urged to curtail car use through higher parking charges and even greater restrictions.Things are tough enough for

taxpayers already without med-dling health bureaucrats trying to make parking more expensive. For most people using the car is a necessity, not a luxury. Parking charges damage the high street, place an unnecessary burden on struggling businesses and make life even harder for households just trying to make ends meet

Parking Costs Set to Soar


Doncaster is gearing up for a taste of Bollywood as the Keepmoat Stadium is set to

host a weekly Asian Bazaar market. Doncaster Rovers FC and Bollywood Events have joined forces to launch

the Asian Bazaar and it will open its doors on the con-course at the Keepmoat

Stadium for the first time on Thursday 27th December 12noon until 7pm. The mar-ket will then be held weekly

every Thursday. Visitors to the bazaar will enjoy browsing stalls sell-ing a wide range of Asian goods including halal food, clothing, furniture, shoes, sweets, decorations, DVD’s and games. Gavin Baldwin, Chief Ex-ecutive of Doncaster Rovers FC, said: “We are delighted to be bringing the Asian Ba-zaar market to the Keepmoat Stadium. “We are commit-ted to bringing a variety of different events to the sta-dium which will appeal to a wide ranging audience.”

Keepmoat Set for Flavour of Asian BazaarPeople from Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghanistan should not be allowed to leave their coun-try unless they can show they have been vaccinated against polio, according to the body which monitors attempts to eradicate the disease. A re-port from the Independent Monitoring Board (IMB) of the Global Polio Eradication Initiative says every time a child or adult from these three countries travels abroad, they risk carrying the polio virus with them.Nigeria, Pakistan and Afghan-istan are the only countries where polio remains endemic, which means transmission of the virus has never been stopped. Polio’s last stand? 2012 cases•Nigeria - 97•Pakistan - 47•Afghanistan - 26•Chad - 5

The report says all but 0.1% of polio has been eradicated globally: there have been 175 cases so far in 2012 compared to 350,000 in 1988. India’s achievement in January 2012 of being free of polio for a year as a major landmark, which meant it was removed from the list of endemic countries. Nigeria is the only country which has seen an increase in the number of cases this year. The report concludes there is a ‘magic formula’ that is still missing in the affected coun-

tries, which it calls ‘absolute ownership’: this means par-ents demanding the vaccine for their children and local leaders grasping the challenge of wip-ing polio from their area.

Polio facts•Polio is a highly infectious vi-ral disease•It is transmitted via contami-nated faeces•It can cause irreversible pa-ralysis, usually in the legs•A minority of cases are fatal

The live oral polio vaccine can, in extremely rare cases, cause the paralysing disease it is seeking to prevent and allow the virus to spread in the com-munity. The injectable vac-cine used in Britain and other developed countries contains an inactivated, or killed polio-virus.

Polio Eradication Effort

Campaigners against female circumcision have scored a major victory with the ap-proval by a key UN commit-tee of a resolution calling for a global ban on female genital mutilation.The resolution, adopted by consensus by the UN Gen-eral Assembly's human rights committee, calls the practice harmful and a serious threat to the psychological, sexual and reproductive health of women and girls. It calls on the UN's 193 member states to con-demn the practice, known as

FGM, and launch education campaigns for girls and boys, women and men, to eliminate it. It also urges all countries to enact and enforce legislation to prohibit FGM, to protect women and girls "from this form of violence", and to end impunity for violators.With 110 sponsors, the resolu-tion is virtually certain to be approved by the full General Assembly, which is expected to take it up in the second half of December. Although not legally binding, assembly res-olutions reflect international

concerns and carry moral and political weight.The resolution would be a breakthrough in the interna-tional campaign to end the harmful practice of FGM. It will change the fate of many young girls around the world, and condemn the practice. The centuries-old practice stems from beliefs that FGM controls urges, enhances fer-tility, or is required by reli-gious belief - although both Muslim and Christian leaders have spoken out against it.

UN Body Urges Female Mutilation Ban

There is a vast difference between a government being Islamic and the ruler of a country being a Muslim. In the subcontinent, the rulers of many small states were of a differ-ent religion to that of the majority, but they were religiously impar-tial, their main concern being the welfare of the people. With British occupation, things changed. They learnt a bitter lesson from the 1857 War of Liberation and thereafter they concentrated solely on admin-istration and left religious matters to the respective communities. Neither Hinduism nor Islam was forced on people by the rulers. Had that been the case, the whole of India would have been Muslims. However, for-eign traditions and religious festi-vals did leave lasting imprints. For example, Muslims adopted hina, ubatna, soyam, chaharam, etc, from the Hindus. Pakistan was created in order for its people to have a free atmosphere, religious freedom and financial au-tonomy. Under the present condi-tions it is very difficult to enforce strict Islamic laws. Muslim leaders, realising the sensitive nature of the matter, declared it an Islamic state, but did not enforce Islamic Shariah. Now hardliners want a theologi-cal Islamic state while the modern generation wants a western-type system.

It had already started during Brit-ish rule. Some people were dead against any form of orthodox reli-gious practices while others consid-ered all modern practices as “kufr” and “ilhad.” It was at this time that the great Sir Syed Ahmad Khan and others appeared on the scene. Sir Syed preached educational reforms while Maulana Hali laid emphasis on culture and good behaviour, and Allama Iqbal used his excellent po-etic gift to preach Islamic values. Shahjehan Begum, Nawab of Bho-pal (grandmother of Nawab Hamid-ullah Khan), embarked on the con-struction of a grand mosque made of red stone. Unfortunately, she expired before its completion. Only the inner hall had been completed at the time. Her daughter Sultan Je-han and Sultan Jehan’s son, Nawab Hamidullah Khan, were unable to complete the mosque. A very fine

person, Dehradun-trained Maulana Imran Khan, started a madressah there and also gave regular lectures to Muslims. He collected money from the Middle East and finally managed to complete the structure – now the biggest mosque in the subcontinent known as Tajul Masa-jid (crown of all mosques). In 1962, Nawab Hamidullah Khan died and his daughter, Sajida Sul-tan, arranged a large function with lots of food. Fewer people came than were expected and the large amount of food that was left over was sent to the mosque for the chil-dren. This was politely returned by the mosque’s administration, with the message that it was against stu-dents being fed leftovers.

Should the Begum have wanted to provide a feast for the children, it would have been more appropriate to invite them rather than sending them leftovers. This indicates the character of the teachers and the up-bringing the children were receiv-ing. Nowadays, even national lead-ers and rulers do not hesitate to use zakat money for personal use. In one of his verses, Himayat Ali Shair said: “How to comment on plunder-ers and looters; they are our leaders, our leaders.” Our religious leaders are no bet-ter. Instead of serving Islam and guiding the people, they have their attention focused on Islamabad. They waste millions of man-hours on useless processions, sit-ins, etc, causing immense inconvenience to the public and destroying public and private property. After making inciting speeches they return to their comfortable lives. In Karachi, a massacre is in full swing and it is only the ANP that is demanding the army’s deployment. The PPP and the MQM are vehe-mently resisting that, fearing they will lose their grip on the mafias and extortionists. Traders are forced to pay “bhatta” (extortion money) to criminals in order to protect their businesses and their own skins. The PPP is forever crying itself hoarse claiming that there should be no state within the state, but that claim is made only to enable it to

disobey court orders. They don’t seem to have any objection to kill-ers running a state within a state. The situation has become so bad that criminals have even taken to killing police, Rangers and army personnel with impunity. This is the beginning of the end of Pakistan! The present situation and behaviour of our rulers and the public reminds me of what is written in Surah Al-Maida, Ayat 105: “O you who be-lieve! Guard your own souls. If you follow right guidance, no hurt can come to you from those who go astray. The goal for you all is Al-lah. It is He who will show you the truth of all that you do.” Hazrat Abu Bakar Siddiq explained this in a prayer address: “O people, you read this verse and make wrong deduc-tions.

I have myself heard the Holy Proph-et (pbuh) explain it thus: ‘When people don’t stop others from wrongdoing or don’t stop the tyrant from cruelty when they see such acts being committed, then it is pos-sible that the Almighty will inflict severe punishment. By Allah, you must preach goodness and stop oth-ers from wrongdoing. If you don’t, Allah will thrust on you as rulers those who would be the worst from among you. They will make your life intolerable. The God-fearing, good people will then beseech Al-lah for His favours, which request will not be accepted.” The present situation is a true reflection of that edict from Allah and its explanation by His last Prophet (pbuh). Only the Almighty can save us from the prevailing situation and forthcom-ing curses.

Rulers’ Character By: A Q KHAN [email protected]


Following the printing in the ILM magazine of ‘the people who make a difference in our com-munity’ photo spread, it led to many conversations and debates about who does what and if he or she should be on there. Which has lead me to write this article on a proposed section of ‘Unsung Heroes in the Community’ in the ILM community newspaper.

Too often we highlight and de-fine heroes as people of who have achieved in their specific field, whether that be in business, sport, science, religion or politics or any other field.

This is my attempt to make good on my promise but more im-portantly highlight some more heroes from the community and these are people YOU SHOULD KNOW, they have not sought the limelight nor publicity for the work they do. But it falls upon us to highlight their work and

the difference they have made to their community so that we as individuals can aspire to do more for our communities.Success is achievable without public recognition, and the world has many unsung heroes.

They are both male and female and the first question to ask is what is a ‘hero’? Is it someone who is willing to sacrifice their life for another? Is it someone who prevents the downfall of an-other human being? Is it someone who defends our way of life? None of these ques-tions can sum up to what a hero is. A hero is someone who will stand tall in front of the weak. A hero is someone who can stand against a majority. A hero is someone who voluntarily gives up their time and dreams to give that same chance of dreaming to someone less fortunate.Too often, in the community, we put individuals on a pedes-

tal which in times gone by was a sign of respect amongst the community but now has become a detestable, self-gratifying, ‘community leader’ figure head, which is abhorred by the silent majority and promoted by the vocal minority. Some people will agree and others will disagree but through communication and an open and honest debate we can reach an equilibrium which will satisfy the majority.

There are many people who I have in mind that I would like to talk about, who they are, what they do and how they make a dif-ference. There are more women than men on that list, which can tell us much about our male dominated society. I will write openly and honestly and wel-come feedback through my blog. Also any suggestions for the title of ‘Unsung Hero’ are more than welcome and can be emailed to me at [email protected].

By: Shahid Ali

Supreme Court Orders to build Kalabagh Dam. Lahore High court has ordered the building of Kalabagh Dam as soon as possi-ble. The High Court also said that now it is the responsibility of Pakistani government to build it according to Article 104. Ultimately construction should resolve the Energy crisis.

The plan of construction of this dam was chalked out in 1954 but due to non availability of funds and non settlement of distribution of its water between four provinces its construc-tion was delayed. This dam will be construct-ed near Mianwali at about 20 km away from Kalabagh town. Under Indus Basin treaty for its capital re-quirements India contributed 200 million ru-pees and for the rest of the expenses. World Bank, USA, Canada, Australia, West Ger-many and New Zealand provided necessary funds.

At present Pakistan has four large dams Man-gla dam, Warsak dam (on river Kabul). Tar-bela dam and Ghazi Barotha dam, number of

head works has become 18 and the number of big major canals has become 38. Korang River near Rawalpindi Rawal dam, on river Kurram, Kurran Garhi dam and near it Baran dam, on river Gomal Khajori dam on river Bolan. Nari bolan dam, near Karachi on Hub River. Hub dam and on river Hiro Khanpur dam have been constructed and canals have been dug out from them for providing water for irrigation and drinking purpose.

In December 2004, General Pervez Mush-arraf, President of Pakistan announced that the Government would build the dam in the best interest of Pakistan. On 26 May 2008, the Federal Minister for Water and Power of Pakistan, Pervez Ashraf Raja, said that the “Kalabagh dam would not be built” and the project was canceled. He said because op-position “Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Sindh and other stakeholders, the project was no longer possible.” However, after the worst flooding (2010) in Pakistan, Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said that the devastation of the floods would be less if Kalabagh dam were built.

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Having been called a PTI middle class moron by a member of an opposition party recently, it got me thinking about the previous year and thus I write this with much thought and re-flection about recent events.

A number of ‘seasoned’ poli-ticians have parted their way from Pakistan Tehreek-e-In-saf in recent months and on the surface it may look like they are leaving a sinking ship. But wait! Before you smile and pat yourself on the back thinking that you knew it was going to happen and it happened. Let’s look more closely at the machinations that have taken place over the recent months.

Imran Khan stated over year ago now that there would be internal party elections with-in PTI and on Sunday 18th November 2012 over 62,000 voters of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) wrote a new chapter in the country’s his-tory by exercising their right to choose around 500 party leaders for the federal capital in the first-ever intra-party elections held in the entire subcontinent, smashing the negative traditions of nomi-nating the party office-bear-ers by the dictatorial party

heads.PTI supports meritocracy rather than big names and dy-nastic politics, with great en-thusiasm shown by members and even though the major-ity of the voting should have taken place through SMS, but due to PTCL phone lines dedicated and publicised for voting being blocked by the government apparently in order to disrupt the polling, turned out in person at dedi-cated polling stations. This had a minor effect with over 50% of the possible voters turning out to vote in person.

The PTI election is a chal-lenge for other political par-ties as PTI has set a process of change in the country’s political system. No politi-cal activist even in other po-litical parties should accept nominations by their dictato-rial leaders, but through the right of protest demand open and free internal elections. The process of internal party elections are continuing with a schedule announced for other areas in Pakistan, the next one being KPK in De-cember 2012.

As to politicians leaving the party, that is why they are there. Many people joined, some on the vision of Imran

Khan, some planted, some for a ticket, but no promises have been made. Those that have left or are leaving and there are more to come, have seen that they will not get a ticket by paying for it or ‘sucking up’ to Imran Khan. But by working hard within the party and in their areas, they will then through an internal election process be nominated by PTI members.

For the dream to come true - dream of a welfare and mod-erate Islamic state, dream of a just and corruption free so-ciety, dream of humanity and equality, dream of rule of law and above all dream of sovereignty and self-esteem. To achieve that dream it is not easy, we will be abused, accused, shot down, picked on amongst many other is-sues and remember that fol-low the vision and not the in-dividuals in the party or any other party.

This is change my friends and if you like it or not it is happening and as Martin Luther King said ‘For In the End, we will remember not the words of our en-emies, but the silence of our friends.’ By: Shahid AliSecretary PTI Sheffield

PTI Middle Class Moron!Hard work by Sheffield City Council to clamp down on illegal traders in the city centre will be undone by a new policy by Lib Dem business minister Jo Swinson. Swinson plans to scrap the 140 year-old 1871 Pedlars Act which requires travelling salesmen to have a perma-nent home address and to be of “good character” before police will grant them a certificate.

Under new rules pedlars will no longer need a certificate from the police, and children under the age of 17 will be allowed to sell trinkets and household goods while travel-ling on foot for the first time. The Council expects this to

turn the high street into a "free for all for rogue traders", with the potential to encourage cold callers who target the elderly. The Council is working hard to boost trade and clamp down on illegal traders that threaten hard working, rent paying businesses in the city. Recent schemes announced include a project to boost retail growth through training, development and retail start-up incentives on Chapel Walk in Sheffield City Centre and this policy change could put this scheme in jeopardy. Councillor Leigh Bramall, cabinet member for Business, Skills and Development said: "This policy would likely encourage a street trade free-for-all. Whilst there are some reputable, legal ped-dlers, we know the reality is that many peddlers sell low quality trinkets and goods and make the high street a less attractive place. The last thing

existing rent-paying retail-ers and shoppers need is our main shopping streets being swamped with such traders.

At a time when we are working hard to encourage new retailers to come to the city, this policy is a disincen-tive which could lead to more empty shop units on the high street. "The policy will also make it harder for the council to tackle dishonest traders who rip-off the public and prey on the vulnerable. The result could well be that the council has to spend more money to tackle illegal peddlers at a time when we are facing mas-sive government cuts to our budget. “Recently the council seized thousands of pounds of coun-terfeit goods which led to a man being arrested after a po-lice operation to crack down on illegal street trading. This policy change will lead to more occurrences like this.”

Lib Dems make it easier for illegal trading in Sheffield

Former Labour Defence Min-ister, Lord Gilbert, shocked the normally sedate British House of Lords by suggesting the use of neutron bombs to establish a “cordon sanitaire” on the Pak-Afghan border.

Funnily enough, he proposed this during a debate on nuclear dis-armament and drew the fury of his former boss, former Labour Defence Secretary Lord Browne of Layton, who accused him of being at his ‘most contrarian and challenging’, while the current government spokesman, Lord Wallace of Saltaire, said that the government did not share these views, saying that the govern-ment retained a commitment to ‘a world without nuclear weapons’. Apart from the maxim that a poli-

tician will say anything to regain the limelight, especially if out of office, Lord Gilberts ridiculous estimation that the mountainous border between Pakistan and Afghanistan is only inhabited by “a few goats” and their herders displays ignorance and a disdain-ful superiority which can only be enjoyed by someone safely seat-ed in a snobby realm, with absolutely no on-ground experience in the region he is busy delivering prescriptions for. Lord Gilbert’s statement would be laughable but he is Prone to gaffes, on occasion Lord Gilbert’s statements have had to be removed from the official record of Parliamentary proceed-ings for their inappropriate lan-guage. While a former defence minister

makes a mockery of the British establishment’s understanding of the situation along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border by issuing such ignorant and incendiary statements, Pakistan has reacted with maturity and restrained an-noyance.

No matter how ridiculous the source, the threat of near-nuclear bombardment on the borders of a sovereign state can hardly be expected to be allowed to pass without comment.

Gilbert, who served Tony Blair (no wonder!) in the late 1990s as a defence minister and was a member Intelligence and Se-curity Committee while he was an MP, said he did not favour a nuclear-free world.

Peer suggests using Neutron Bomb in Afghanistan and Pakistan


Did you know you shouldn't ex-ercise while taking certain anti-biotics? That having a bath while taking certain medications could be dangerous, or that it only takes a few more paracetamol pills than recommended to trigger liver damage?Here, we pinpoint the top medi-cine hazards you need to be aware of. Be cautious when exercising on some medication

Exercise and medicine don't al-ways mix. Some medicines can affect your risk of getting cramp, raise blood pressure or increase heart rate. Exercising while tak-ing some statins can increase the risk of getting muscle pain as a side effect, and diabetics may need to adjust their medication as exercise can lower blood sugar. Possibly the nastiest effect is that linked to a group of antibiotics called quinolones (which include ciprofloxacin and moxifloxacin). These can cause inflammation in the tendons and, in rare cases, tearing or snapping of those ten-dons can occur. Your doctor may advise you to avoid exercise when on the medicine if you're at risk of this.

Swallow pills with waterSwallowing medication with-out water can cause it to linger longer in the throat than it should and many medicines can be cor-rosive, which can damage the oesophagus. In fact, antibiotics stuck in the oesophagus have been known to burn a hole right

through the delicate tissue. Up to 100 medicines including aspirin, ibuprofen, vitamin C, iron sup-plements and the contraceptive pill can trigger oesophageal dam-age. As a rule, wash tablets down with water and avoid lying down for 30 to 60 minutes.And don't take pills with liquids other than water Milk, grapefruit juice and coffee are all drinks known to interact with medica-tions.

Milk can bind to some medi-cine, meaning it's not absorbed effectively; grapefruit juice can inhibit enzymes involved with drug metabolism, increasing the dose in your system, while caf-feine stimulates circulation and may increase drug concentrations in the blood. Water is the best choice.Treat the problem rather than masking symptoms with medica-tion

Not only is this masking the cause of an issue and delaying your recovery, if you keep on taking pills, or using potions, you can trigger rebound reactions like headaches or nasal congestion, which cause further problems. And it doesn't take long for these to occur. Some painkillers, like those containing codeine, can trigger rebound headache within a week of frequent use. Decon-gestant sprays can cause prob-lems in about five days.Take only the recommended dose Taking as little as two to three extra pain killers a day for a few

days can be enough to trigger what experts called a staggered overdose and cause liver damage. They also found that the risk of dying from liver failure is great-er in those taking a staggered overdose than those attempting suicide using it. The issue with accidental toxicity is that symp-toms often don't start to show un-til serious damage has been done so people don't realise there's a problem. It's also harder for doc-tors to identify as levels of drugs in the body look normal.Antibiotics aren't a cold cureIf you feel sick enough to go to the doctor, you want to walk away with some kind of medicine. So doctors just prescribe them. But antibiotics can't fight colds – they attack bacteria, and colds and flu are caused by viruses.

This is one case when harm defi-nitely outweighs benefits. The side effects of antibiotics include rashes, diarrhoea and thrush so you could end up with new health problems while your original is-sue isn't cured at all.The only time antibiotics should be considered for any cold or flu sufferer is if you also develop si-nus pain or produce thicker than normal mucus – this can indicate you have developed a bacte-rial infection alongside the virus. Otherwise, just treat the symp-toms with simple medicines and decongestants.Remember, creams are medi-cines tooSome may think creams don't count as real medicine, but if

it has an action in your body, it counts. And if it contains topical painkillers like methyl salicylate (oil of wintergreen or lidocaine, it definitely counts – women have died from overdose while us-ing these ingredients in a topical form.

Other risks can come from ster-oid creams used for skin condi-tions like eczema (overusing these can make you resistant to the drug's effects, meaning you'll need a stronger preparation in the future), while oestrogen or pro-gesterone creams can raise hor-mone levels if over-applied.If a cream has an active ingredi-ent, treat it like any other medi-cine. Do not exceed the stated dose, do not mix it with other medications containing the same active ingredient and tell your doctor or pharmacist about other medicines you're taking to ensure they don't interact.Some tablets must not be split or crushed

Crushing or splitting pills is most commonly done when people can't swallow them, and some-times it's fine (if a pill is scored down the middle it's usually okay to split but not crush), but other times it can interfere with the way the drug is absorbed. Drugs that have an enteric coat-ing or a slow-release mechanism must dissolve in a certain place in the digestive system to work properly. Ask your doctor if your medication can be split. Place the pill loosely under your tongue

and drink a glass of water. It goes down easier.Drugs have an expiry date for a reasonOne in five of us has taken medi-cation that's past its expiry date, but it can put health at risk. Hang-ing on to medication too long increases the risk of accidently combining drugs that don't mix well (with no doctor to advise you not to take that painkiller you were given for your knee three years ago now you're on blood-thinning medication).

Other drugs don't stand the test of time. Anginine, for heart-related chest pain, and insulin are both far less effective past the expiry

date and could be dangerous if taken.Also, check if a medicine expires quickly once it's been opened eye drops, for example, should be ditched after a month as they can easily become contaminated by bacteria and trigger a new infection.

Clear your cupboard regularly and take expired or damaged drugs, or unfinished prescrip-tions, to a pharmacy for disposal. If your medicine cabinet is regu-larly exposed to steam or heat, move it. They can get into drug packaging and cause the medi-cines to lose potency. Store them in a cool, dark place instead.

Treating Medication with the Respect it Deserves could Save your Life


With mankind’s advancement, new measures of defense and aggression were resorted to, during the times of need. From petty squabbles to full-fledged wars waged between states, new doc-trines were adopted for victory. But there was a constant trade-off, of a virtue that the man lost; he ceased to be honorable.Terrorism is always considered to be a path that has no honor, no glory. A society that yearns for harmony has always come to oppose terrorism in any form, whether it is the breaking of crimi-nal laws or promotion of violence. In response to the concerns of the society, to counter the in-fluence of terrorism whether from external ele-ments, or internal elements within the society, states made counter-terrorism forces to combat them, in the form of state owned militias and law enforcement agencies. These forces were used in times of peace and war, for the estab-lishment of harmony.Alas! Times became too complicated, as deceit became the new political system. Under this new system, the state advanced its foul objec-tives within the society and elsewhere. The non-violent deceit mongering measures were carried out through parliament, while the violent meas-ures through the forces, that were initially made to combat terrorism in itself.Hence the term “State Sponsored Terrorism” was coined.The historical precedents are testimonial to the fact that the State-Sponsored terrorist activities were first confined within their own boundaries, but eventually they spread across the borders and came to be seen as International Terrorism.Today the FBI states that “International terror-ism involves violent acts or acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or any state, or that would be a criminal violation if committed within the jurisdiction of the United States or any state. These acts appear to be intended to intimidate or coerce a civilian population, influ-ence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion, or affect the conduct of a govern-ment by assassination or kidnapping. Interna-tional terrorist acts occur outside the United States or transcend national boundaries in terms of the means by which they are accomplished, the persons they appear intended to coerce or intimidate, or the locale in which their perpetra-tors operate or seek asylum.”We would be judging the State of Israel accord-ing to this definition.Israel is a Jewish state, born from the Balfour Declaration of 1917, a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Walter Rothschild, the leader of the British Jewish community in response to the de-mand of a Jewish state. The letter stated,“His Majesty’s government view with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non- Jewish com-munities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.”From a secret wedlock between the Sons of Zion and the British Empire, the state of Israel came into being, illegitimately occupying the land of Palestinians. Today Israel occupies a unique place in the international community for its victimization and brutal measures against the Palestinians. As a major perpetrator of state ter-rorism, it is consistently downplayed or ignored by the western countries, in accordance with the general principle, that violence employed by ourselves or by our friends is excluded from the category of terrorism, by definition. The record of Israeli terrorism, however, is considerable, far too extensive even to attempt to record here. Particular thoroughness would be given to Is-rael’s atrocities, as a ‘Terrorist State’, in the re-cent years leading to the events of the year 2012.A glimpse would suffice, if some of Israel’s pre-vious actions are taken into consideration.

Israel’s Prime Minister Begin in a letter pub-lished in the Israeli press in August 1981 wrote in response to what he regarded as criticism of the Israeli bombing of Beirut, which killed hundreds of civilians. Begin offered a “partial list” of military attacks on Arab civilians, which included over 30 separate episodes that left many civilians dead. He concluded that “under the Alignment government, there were regular retaliatory actions against civilian Arab popula-tions; the air force operated against them; the damage was directed against such structures as the canal, bridges and transport.” The former UN ambassador Abba Eban wrote in response, “The picture that emerges is of an Israel wan-tonly inflicting every possible measure of death and anguish on civilian populations in a mood reminiscent of regimes which neither Mr. Begin nor I would dare to mention by name.”Perhaps Mr.Eban would have been reminiscing about Hitler’s regime.The eves of 1982 autumn took away with them, the cries of 3500 people butchered at the Sabra and Shatila camps. The United Nations’ Gen-eral Assembly later condemned what happened at Sabra and Shatila as “an act of genocide”. A UN commission of inquiry concluded that the Israeli authorities and their forces were involved and responsible for the deaths. The then head of the Israel Defence Force, Ariel Sharon later would hold four ministerial posts before becom-ing Israeli Prime Minister from 2001 to 2006. Not a single person accused of the crime was prosecuted.The year 2012 is marred by Israel’s attempt to hegemonies the international community with terror. What started off by Netanyahu declaring pre-emptive strikes against Iran became short of being a crisis situation. After the IAEA in-spection of Nov 2011, Iranian nuclear program became one of the most conflicting issues in the world. Iran insists that it is planning to develop its nuclear program to generate electricity, while the western countries believe that Iran is plan-ning to build nuclear weapons. Israel has been most vocal in this regard. With Netanyahu’s government constant threats, signaling the ever readiness of Israel to attack Iran’s nuclear facil-ity, tougher sanctions against Iranian oil exports imposed by US and Europe and Iran’s threat to block the Strait of Hormuz, a tense situation has prevailed in the Middle East.But Israel clearly forgets that it also has a clan-destine nuclear program. It is a well-known fact that Israel has been maintaining nuclear weapons since 1967. Ironically Israel has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty up till now, but supports establishment of a Middle East Zone, free of weapons of mass destruction. Much of what is known about Israel’s nuclear program comes from revelations in 1986 by Mordechai Vanunu, a technician at the Negev Nuclear Research Center who served an 18-year prison sentence as a result. Perhaps Israel has double standards, when it comes to Muslim Countries.But what came as a surprise was Israel’s launch-ing of its military offensive against Gaza on 14 November, marking the latest eruption of con-flict with Hamas which has raged between the two sides for years. This move of aggression was named as Operation Pillar of Defense, and was started by killing the Hamas commander, Ahmed al Jabbari in an air strike… Amidst the decries of international community, Israel as-serted that the air strike and the follow up op-eration is in fact a reaction of being hailed by the missiles that were fired from the Gaza’s ter-ritory.Once a nation victimized by holocaust, Israel has made it it’s faith to be replicating it on oth-ers. Gilad Sharon, son of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, wrote on 18th Nov, call-ing for even more aggressive Israeli strikes in Gaza. “We need to flatten entire neighborhoods in Gaza. Flatten all of Gaza,” states Sharon in The Jerusalem Post citing the bombing of Hiro-shima-Nagasaki by America. In many countries

anti-Semitism is considered to be a criminal of-fense. Promotion of a vile ideology like holo-caust of the Jews is tantamount to blasphemy. Conversely, Matan Vilnai, deputy defense min-ister of Israel, in his recent interview to the army radio, called for a holocaust to be brought upon Palestinians. ”The more Qassam fire intensifies and the rockets reach a longer range, they (the Palestinians) will bring upon themselves a big-ger shoah because we will use all our might to defend ourselves,” he said.It should be remembered that “Shoah” in He-brew refers to holocaust.The claims of Israel that the rocket attacks lead-ing to breaking of truce were initiated by Hamas, has landed it into hot water once again. As the reports of the onslaught started coming in, the world realized that it was a farce that was propa-gated to justify the war. The chain of events that started from Israel’s attack on an arms factory in Sudan, reportedly supplying Hamas; killing of 15 Palestinian fighters in October; shooting a mentally unstable Palestinian walking in the buffer zone, a narrow strip of land between Gaza and Israel borders and shooting of Abu Dhaaqa on 8th Nov, a 13 year old boy after an incursion near al-Qarara village northeast of Khan Yunis tells a different story. The chance of a long term truce was dampened next, by the killing of Ahmed al Jabbari, a Hamas military commander involved in peace diplomacy. In an interview, Gershon Baskin the founder of the Is-rael/Palestine Center for Research and Informa-tion, an NGO and a think-tank, stated, “peace was within reach”. The only credible reason for killing of Jabbari is that Israel did not want to commit to truce.Contrary to above, if it is believed that Israel was attacked by Hamas in the first instance, how can Israel justify its illegal actions in Gaza. As an occupied territory, it is covered by the Hague Regulations of 1907 and the Fourth Ge-neva Convention of 1949 on the treatment of occupied populations by their military occupier. Indiscriminate bombing of occupied territories by the occupier is clearly a violation of interna-tional law. Other than that Israel has imposed a strict blockade around Gaza that has resulted in widespread anemia in the society. Around 5% of children are suffering from malnutrition. Rou-tine colonization of land is also being done from the west bank side, where new house building schemes are announced most of the time. It is also imperative for the international community to consider that Israel has broken around 15 ceasefire treaties in the last six decades.7 days, 1500 missiles and the deaths of around 150 Palestinians, of which majority are chil-dren, and a ceasefire has been finally brokered up between the two sides, that has yet to be an-nounced. On the other hand, almost all the rock-ets of Hamas fired at Israel were intercepted by dome-missile-interceptors. Those that managed to land killed 5 people, including a soldier and a contractor. Yesterday, bomb explosion in a bus in Tel Aviv injured 10 people, and was initially blamed on Hamas but later it was reported that it was the act of a lone operator unaffiliated with any major groups.In an emergency meeting of UN Security Council, America has blocked the resolution to condemn Israel for the atrocities committed in Gaza. US has always supported Israel’s terror-ism. It did not came as a surprise for internation-al community as Netanyahu is on record as say-ing: ‘contrary to the childish scare-mongering in some of our media suggesting that Israel is now more isolated internationally, we have conduct-ed this operation with firm Western backing.’I wonder whom Israel would terrorize next.

Talha Ibrahim is an amateur writer currently pursuing Chartered Accountancy, Talha wants to be a wise man someday. Not having any par-ticular affinity towards right wing or left wing politics, he forms his conclusions derived from his own idiosyncratic goggles.

Op-ed: Gaza and THE TERROR STATE

Education bosses are celebrat-ing after scooping two highly coveted national communica-tion awards – for the second year running. The city has picked up first place with two Shine A Light awards, run by the national Communication Trust, for their work to boost communication standards in children.Sheffield City Council’s award-winning Every Sheffield Child Articulate and Literate (ES-CAL) campaign beat off stiff competition from other local authorities to win the accolades at a star-studded ceremony. They have won best Communi-cation Strategy Award and for the Team of the Year Award.

This comes on the back of win-ning the Best Communication Strategy award last year.Cllr Jackie Drayton, Sheffield City Council’s Cabinet Mem-ber for Children, Young People and Families, said: "What a fan-tastic achievement to have won such prestigious awards and for the second year running too. It shows that what we are doing as a city is being recognised nationally and gives us a great platform from which to build on. At the end of the day the most important thing is making sure all children have the best start in life. The early years are a crucial stage in shaping the future outcomes for any child.

Sheffield a ShiningLight in Education

Motorists in Sheffield are be-ing urged to help keep the city on the move in the busy run up to Christmas by steering clear of il-legal parking. With only weeks to Christmas, motorists are be-ing urged to ensure that they park safely. Civil Enforcement Officers will be out and about in the city supported by a mobile CCTV unit ensuring that motorists park safely, particularly in areas where illegal parking causes congestion and or can be dangerous around schools. The following types of restrictions are now enforced by mobile CCTV equipment in Sheffield : • Peak Period Waiting and

Loading Restrictions• School Keep Clear Restric-tions• Bus Stop Clearways• 24 Hour Clearways• Waiting Restrictions adjacent to taxi ranks, where illegal ranking hinders traffic flow Motorists parking in areas that they should not be or not parking safely will still receive a penalty charge notice from Civil Enforce-ment Officers. There will be an initial two week warning period for anyone found to be parking illegal-ly on the mobile CCTV equipment. After the two week period, fines will be issued.

Motorists Urged to Steer Clear of Illegal Parking


BY JAVED ZAHEER, FREE EXPRESSION AWARD WINNER True leadership anywhere, everywhere and at any time is always confronted with serious challenges from those who are committed enemies of mankind. Yet such people are never deterred by any sinister conspiracies, cowardly attacks, threats, hurdles, obstacles and setbacks. True leaders, no doubt, are great people. They boldly and bravely accept and face all challenges and remain prepared for worst-ever difficult times. In any case or situation or at any time or before anyone, they never let down their people and al-ways try to fulfil all the promises, pledg-es and commitments they make. This is their quality, character and identity. Malala Yousafzai, the 14-year-old brave daughter of Pakistan, who is campaigner for girls’ rights and education, is one such hero. She was shot in the head by those who are human beasts, criminals, crooks, cowards, corrupt, traitors and conspirators. The Taliban group, which always promptly and without losing any time makes the claims and takes the responsi-bility, claimed the responsibility for this attack. It is being strongly condemned and severely criticized for this cowardly act by Pakistanis and the whole world.Some are suspecting foul play and hold-ing the US and Allies responsible for this attack through their mysterious Taliban group so that they could gain sympathy of Pakistanis and the world, put pres-sure on Pakistan’s military, rulers and politicians to do more including major military operation and justify their op-erations and attacks including Drone attacks in which thousands of innocent people including women and children

have been mostly mercilessly killed. Interestingly, Pakistanis and most Mus-lims in the Muslim World really love, like and respect the country and the good, loving and caring people of US and Allies. This is why they all crazily want to go there by any means and at any cost. But they don’t like and trust the policy-makers, rulers and military of US and Allies and hold them responsible for the mass killings and destruction in order to achieve the vested interests. This is all mainly because of the infamous but no-torious U-Turn Policies of the US. This is why US and Allies have lost trust, con-fidence and respect. If they keep working with the crook, cruel and corrupt rulers, military gen-erals, bureaucrats, leaders and people then they will always be disliked and hated and never trusted and respected. They will have to seriously review and sincerely make positive changes in the policies in order to gain the trust, con-fidence, love and respect of the people. They must deal with true leaders and good people to help them become rulers, policymakers and politicians. Malala Yousafzai gained prominence in 2009 by writing a diary (BBC Urdu vid-eo Schools Dismissed) about life under Taliban militants who had taken control of the valley. She earned the admiration of many across Pakistan for her cour-age. She was encouraged and supported by her father Ziauddin Yusufzai, mother and BBC Reporter Abdul Hayee Kakkar. All the four are also being suspected by many of being very close to the US and Allies and working for their vested in-terests. The connection issue is becom-ing a hot issue. The media is splashing exclusive news with pictures about the

connection issue. It is being termed as a well-planned drama of the conspiracy plan. Courageous Malala Yousafzai was just 11 when she started her diary, two years after the Taliban took over the Swat Val-ley and ordered girls' schools to close. She wrote under the pen-name Gul Makai for BBC Urdu and exposed the sufferings. She won a national award for bravery and was nominated for an inter-national children's peace award. By her true leadership character, attitude, actions, deeds and tremendous positive contributions, Malala Yousafzai and many others like her, who are risking their lives and struggling, helping, sup-porting and serving the people with the spirit of service to humanity, are proving to the world that neither Pakistanis nor Muslims are terrorists. Instead they are victims of global terrorism and interna-tional conspiracies. This is a loud and clear message: Target the real terrorists instead of labelling the Muslims as ter-rorists. The world leaders and people must come forward and practically act to help and support such courageous people. It is never too late. Ignorance or refusal would certainly lead to torturous punish-ment in the form of painful pricks by the conscience. They will always regret and can never sleep, live or die peacefully. This is for sure. It is the issue of mankind and humanity.Recently a couple from Pakistan visited Toronto, Canada. They were introduced to me by Shahid Hashmi, a renowned and respected community leader and a distinguished personality, who is also their relative. The couple has dedicated their lives to promoting human values and committedly serving the people

through education in order to ensure bet-ter future and quality of life for children, people and Pakistan.As part of their important role of promot-ing human values, the couple, Syeda Fa-him Iqbal Jaffrey and Muhammad Fahim Khan, adopt poor and deserving kids and children who are ignored by the parents. They help, support and groom them so that they become good, responsible and respectable member of the society and community and have a bright future. The focus is on their character, welfare and education. Also, they help in the release of innocent people who are in jails. Many Canadians and others, including distinguished personalities, very much impressed by the couple’s intentions, commitments, determination and con-tributions are showing keen interest in practically helping and supporting them in promotion of their education projects and adoption of deserving bright chil-dren for their education and future under supervision of The Fahims School Sys-tem. The couple assured them that their help and support would prove a great bless-ing and help for the deserving children and innocent persons and maintenance and expansion of the education and char-ity projects. They are expecting help and support from maximum number of people. The practical help and support would greatly help them to continue their mission of building the future of new generation through education. The objective is to make them very good hu-man beings.In short, the couple, Syeda Fahim Iqbal Jaffery and Muhammad Fahim Jaffery, are dare-devils and true patriotic peo-ple who have risked their lives, devoted their time, energy and resources and

dedicated themselves with commitment and determination to practically help and support the deserving children and peo-ple of Pakistan. The challenges are really tough and times very difficult. It is hard to survive or stand before the corrupt lobby but they are doing their best. With the help of sincere and good people and leaders of anywhere, they are sure of achieving aimed and greater success. This is their level of trust and confidence in good people and leaders. Instead of merely sympathizing, cry-ing and rendering lip services, we need to practically act and help promote the sacred vision and mission of Malala Yousafzai and people like her. Syeda Fahim Iqbal Jaffery and Muhammad Fahim belong to people of great cat-egory. Their tremendous contributions and meritorious services speak for them-selves. We must help and support them in turning the sacred mission into reality and successfully achieving the mission of promotion of education and charity. The scarred vision will always keep us in the dark and prove dangerous. That is why we need to fully support the sacred missions of good people. CONTACT FAHIMS: Those interested in practically helping the couple, Syeda Fahim Iqbal Jaffery and Muhammad Fahim Khan, their education and char-ity projects and the deserving children and innocent persons could contact them on telephone (021-34978627) or email: [email protected] or [email protected]. The address is: Head Office: A-295 Sardar Ali Sabri Road, Block-5, Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Kara-chi, Pakistan.

Promoting Education And Human Values

Sheffield Lib Dem Leader, Shaffaq Mohammed, has admitted that he has had no problems adjusting to the introduction of alternate week bin collections. In an interview on BBC Radio Sheffield Councillor Mohammed revealed “We’re coping alright, I’ve never said that we’d struggle … I’m ok with it.”

Labour have made it clear throughout that the reason for moving to alternate week collections is the massive cuts that the Government are imposing on the council, leaving a £170 million gap over four years. Moving to alternate week collections, which is successfully operated by the majority of councils in England and Wales, saves the council £2.5 million every year.

The Lib Dems have also dropped their commit-ment to reverse the change, pressed on the issue several times Councillor Mohammed refused to say that they would propose to reintroduce weekly collections in their budget this year.

Coping with alternate week Collections

Arab spring has left US-friendly rulers in region nervous about possible impact of an Israeli strike on Iran's nuclear programme.General Martin Dempsey, chairman of the US joint chiefs, meets Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, in Tel Aviv. US military commanders have warned their Israeli counterparts that any action against Iran would severely limit the ability of American forces in the region to mount their own operations against the Iranian nuclear programme by cutting off vital logistical support from Gulf Arab allies.US naval, air and ground forces are dependent for bases, refuelling and sup-plies on Gulf Arab rulers who are deeply concerned about the progress Iran has made in its nuclear programme, but also about the rising challenge to their regimes posed by the Arab spring and the galvanising impact on popular unrest of an Israeli attack on Iran. The US Fifth Fleet is headquar-tered in Bahrain and the US air force has major bases in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, the United Arab Emirates and Oman. Senior US officers believe the one case in which they could not rely fully on those bases for military operations against Iranian installations would be if Israel acted first."The Gulf states' one great fear is Iran going nuclear. The other is a regional war that would destabilise them," said a

source in the region. "They might sup-port a massive war against Iran, but they know they are not going to get that, and they know a limited strike is not worth it, as it will not destroy the programme and only make Iran angrier."Israeli leaders had hinted they might take military action to set back the Ira-nian programme, but that threat receded in September when the prime minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, told the United Nations general assembly that Iran's advances in uranium enrichment would only breach Israel's "red line" in spring or summer next year.Israel's defence minister, Ehud Barak, said this week in London that it was the Iranian decision this year to convert a third of the country's stock of 20%-en-riched uranium into fuel (making it harder to convert to weapons-grade material if Iran decided to make a weapon) that had bought another "eight to 10 months".Barak's comments appear to signal that Israel's new red line is an Iranian stock-pile of about 200kg of 20%-enriched uranium in convertible form, enough if enriched further to make one bomb. Western diplomats argue the benchmark is arbitrary, as it would take Iran another few months to enrich the stockpile to 90% (weapons-grade) purity, and then perhaps another year to develop a war-head small enough to put on a missile.

US warns Israel off pre-emptive strike on Iran

By: Talha Ibrahim


Mohammed NazirHead of Property & ImmigrationWosskow Brown Solicitors LLP

Legal CornerQ&A PROPERTY

Sale of PropertyQ What is a fixtures and fit-tings form?

A. A fixtures fittings and con-tents form is an important docu-ment that is provided when you are purchasing a property. It provides information with regards to what items will be left at the property when the purchase completes. If you are selling the property please make sure that the form is completed correctly as this forms part of the sale contract.

Q. What is a Property Infor-mation Form (PIF)

A This gives details of the prop-erty and contains information and changes to the property in the past. This form should be completed very carefully and in full as this information is very important. If you are not sure about anything you should speak to your legal advisor be-fore you hand over this form to the purchasers.

Q What is an Overriding In-terest Form?

A The Overriding Interest Form is a new form introduced into the Conveyancing process. It gives information to the pur-chaser’s solicitors as to whether there are any additional arrange-ments or rights that have been created over the property in re-cent years.

Q. What is the meaning of Vacant Possession in a sale agreement?

A This is a very important clause of the sale agreement and it means that once your solicitor has received the purchase funds, you will hand over possession to the purchaser and there will be no occupiers, items or rubbish left at the property. If you do not provide vacant possession then potentially you are in breach of contract and the purchaser can ask for damages and gain pos-session through the Court.

Q. What is a redemption fig-ure and what is its importance in the sale process?

A A redemption statement is information from the exist-

ing mortgage lender detailing the amount outstanding on the property. You cannot proceed without an up-to-date redemp-tion figure. Your solicitor will need this to complete the sale of your property as they have to give a promise to the pur-chaser’s solicitors to clear the property from financial liability. In new sale contracts the vendor is also bound to clear any finan-cial charges on the property but it also depends on the wording of the sale agreement.

Q. What are early Repayment charges ?

A. If you pay your mortgage within the fixed period then you have to pay the a penalty re-ferred to as an early repayment charge. If the fixed term for the interest rate has passed then there should not be any penalty.

Disclaimer: This is information only and do not act on this in-formation as legal advice and always seek advice from your solicitor according to the cir-cumstances of your case.

Within the framework of enjoin-ing what is good and preventing what is evil, taking an effective approach towards people’s mis-takes is important. If we do not evaluate the balances and fac-tors involved well, the results may be counterproductive.Criticism is to see the positive and negative aspects of a situa-tion, item, person or behaviour and to expose them to other eyes and minds. This article covers the criticism in human rela-tions, but not scientific, philo-sophical or literary criticism. Criticism in human relations may be divided into two catego-ries, positive (constructive) and negative (destructive, damag-ing) criticism. The criterion of determining which criticism is positive or negative is to know who criticizes whom, when and to what extent. Though the criti-cism is the same, if you change one of the constituents above a positive criticism may turn into a negative one.Avoid opening the door of criti-cism for each other. There are more things to criticize outside other than your brothers. Gen-erally, those who criticize most do not see their own faults and deficiencies.Negative criticism causes mate-rial and spiritual damage both to the critic and the criticized. The damage to the critic is as follows:• Since he always criticizes others, he is unable to realize his own faults and defi-ciencies.• He thinks that he will progress by finding and expos-ing the faults of others.• He is not loved by people since he is always ex-

amining their faults. There may even be some people who hate him and hold a grudge against him.• He cannot enjoy his life since he is always focusing on faults, mistakes and negative points.• Through his constant criticism, he may gossip about other people and he may have ill intentions towards others.• Since he evaluates everything from his own per-spective, he may fall into trap of the egotism.We can enumerate more dam-ages. There is also damage to the one who is criticised;• He feels nervous and stressed psychologically.• The probability of his making mistakes increases.• Later, he may also begin to criticize others.• He loses his self-con-fidence.• Because of the de-structiveness of the style and manner of speech, the nega-tive behaviour may actually be strengthened in his character instead of being corrected.• He may gradually be-come isolated and alienated.As can be seen, negative criti-cism may cause irreparable damage to both the critic and the criticized. Then, what should be done;• First of all, we have to question ourselves, which is called self-criticism or interro-gating the soul that calls to evil in Islamic terminology.• We should think empathetically, and think how I want to be warned if I make such a mistake.• We should criticize

not the character of the person or the event itself, but just the faults and deficiencies in them.• First, we need to stress the positive and good aspects of the person and his character or the event and then draw the attention to the faults in a positive manner.• We should evaluate the position of the person and the situation and time and if it is not appropriate, we should postpone the warning to a more appropriate time.• If the person gets into the position of defending the mistake, we should climb down and if necessary change the sub-ject.Attention should be paid to all these methods and strategies while dealing with the mistakes and faults of other people. From the perspective of the criticized person, for example, let us im-agine that we are warned, but the critic does not do this in an appropriate manner and he is aggressive. In such a situa-tion, we should not defend our mistake and we should actually thank him for warning us and correcting our mistake.Those who are engaged in neg-ative criticism and who disturb people around them through an aggressive approach are ones who see their own negative as-pects on the other people and attack them. The situation is expressed comprehensively by a thinker as follows, “If you want to help people with all your heart and succeed finally, then you can criticize them, and this criticism will be a positive one.” Otherwise our criticism will be futile and furthermore we will gain enemies.

Criticism in Human Relations and the Damage it can Cause

In many parts of the UK, cricketers from other countries which have a cricketing tradition, the West Indies, India and Pakistan, have felt it necessary to form their own clubs or even Leagues in order to play the game.Fortunately, this has not been the case in South Yorkshire, where clubs have welcomed play-ers of all colours, creeds and nation-alities judging eve-ryone simply on their ability to play the game and their attitude to it. Consequently, at most clubs, you will find a total mix of players.

Over the last 5 years or so, we have started to see this social mix hap-pening amongst the umpires. In South Yorkshire, we now have a number of umpires, particularly from the Pakistani tradition, Jawed Akhtar, Mo Raza, PJ Ahmed Zeeshan Naqvi, Fayyaz Syed and Anjum Iqbal to name just six.

Even so, the proportion is not as high as the number of ethnic Pakistani lads playing the game, and so we are always on the lookout for more. The training in South Yorkshire is considered

some of the best in the country, and there is a pathway for those who would like to progress beyond Saturday League cricket, to multi-day, Minor Counties, County and beyond. The President of the South Yorkshire Branch is John Hampshire, formerly a Test Umpire, and also from Sheffield is Richard Kettleborough,

the current Test Umpire.Details of all the courses for training both Umpires and Scor-ers are on the website at ycba-cosouthyorkshire.wordpress.com

The umpires cours-es start in the first week of January, in Doncaster, Rother-ham and Sheffield; last eight weeks (in-

cluding the mock exam and the actual exam) and cost £50, which includes the training pack, one years membership of the ACO, the MCC Laws book, and a copy of Tom Smiths, which is generally known as ‘the umpires bible’, but I appreciate that this may be an inappropriate description in a Pakistani journal!

If you need any further information, contact Alan Farnell on 0114 230 5760, or 07932 621 893, or [email protected]

Umpire and Scorer Training Courses in South Yorkshire

Paul Blomfield, Member of Parliament for Sheffield Central, yesterday chal-lenged Transport Ministers to invest in a dedicated cycling infrastructure. Speaking in Parliament Paul Blomfield said: “Despite the challenge of our famous hills, Sheffield has embraced cycling, and many of my constituents have backed The Times’ “Cities fit for Cycling” manifesto. Will the Government com-mit to implementing the manifesto in full, as Labour has, and does the Minister recognise that only invest-ment in a dedicated cycling infrastructure will encourage road safety and a switch to bikes?” After the debate Paul said:“It’s disappointing that the

Minister didn’t commit to implementing the cycling manifesto. As a cyclist my-self I know we need to do a lot more to promote cycling and increase the safety of cyclists.

The huge public interest and increase in cycling following success at the Olympics and Tour de France means this is the right moment to invest in a dedicated cycling infra-structure. I strongly urge Ministers to do this so we can get more people switch-ing to bikes and to secure a cycling legacy beyond 2012.

“It’s worrying that in the last year there was an increase the number of cyclists killed or injured on our roads, the first rise in 17 years. This is why Labour wants all future road and other major transport

schemes to be subject to a Cycling Safety Assessment before they are approved.”

Paul Blomfield MP challenges Government to invest in cycling infrastructure

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