Windrush Group News Today

this is bbc news. its newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. the us coastguard has launched a search and rescue operation, after a sub—mersible used to take tourists to view the wreck of the titanic went missing in the atlantic ocean. the vessel — with five people on board — lost contact about one hour and 45 minutes into a dive to the wreck. the titanic, which sank in 1912, lies nearly 4,000 metres beneath the surface, around 600 kilometres off the coast of newfoundland in...

Black History Month 2023: List of events happening in Reading 

An art installation in Exeter will help mark 75 years since Caribbean migrants arrived in Britain.

Citizens of the british empire coming to the mother- country with good intent. it was multi—disciplinary artist bristol based valda jackson, who was chosen to design the windrush 75th anniversary coin. she arrived in the uk from jamaica at the age of five. its quite an honour, really, and a privilege to be given the opportunity to represent us and the generation before us in this way. valda started work on the image almost two years ago and spent months perfecting it. i want them to be obvious...

Oxford author Sylvia Vetta has written her memoirs and her facinating life story comes with an added ingredient - it is packed with tasty recipes.

Created in 2001, Boost Drinks is an independent UK company offering a huge portfolio of products across 4 functional drinks categories; energy, sport,

In the uk or around the world. 95% of people from the windrush generation — who were wrongly classed as illegal immigrants in the uk — are still waiting to receive compensation, four years after the scandal first emerged. a scheme was set up in 2018 to help those who were denied health care, housing or the right to work, despite having lived in britain for decades. now a report from a group of mps has called for the scheme to be taken out of government control — warning that its causing fu...

Its notjust the individual case, and i pay tribute to lissie, but its also the fact that in the last year 10,000 convictions for assaults on emergency workers have taken place. so its notjust individual cases, its the scale of it. we think as we come through this pandemic and build back stronger, fairer, in all sorts of ways, we should increase the sentences for those attacks or murders, or unlawful killings i should say, of emergency workers. we want them to know that weve got their back. pc ha...

Housing, the right to work, or in some cases detained or deported, despite having lived in britain for decades. now a report from a group of mps has called for the scheme to be taken out of government control — warning that its causing further trauma. our home affairs editor, mark easton, reports. the empire windrush brings to britain 500 jamaicans. many are ex servicemen who know england. the windrush compensation scheme was supposed to right the wrongs of a scandal that rocked the government...

Or unlawful killings i should say, of emergency workers. we want them to know that weve got their back. pc harper was chasing a group of suspects when he became caught in the tow rope of their getaway car. he was dragged for over a mile at speeds of more than 40 miles an hour. teenagers henry long, albert bowers and jessie cole were convicted of manslaughter. they were cleared of murder and so did not automatically receive a life term. welcoming the planned new law, his wife lissie said emergenc...