Charlotte L. Hall

1 month ago | easterneye.biz | Harrison Galliven |Charlotte L. Hall |George Lythgoe

FORMER prime minister Rishi Sunak has been named an ambassador for Prostate Cancer Research, supporting its campaign for a national screening programme for men at high risk of the disease. The announcement follows Sunak’s visit to Oxford BioDynamics last week, where he learned about the EpiSwitch PSE blood test, which can detect prostate cancer with 94 per cent accuracy. This is seen as a major improvement over the commonly used PSA test.

1 month ago | easterneye.biz | Harrison Galliven |Charlotte L. Hall |George Lythgoe

CULTURE secretary Lisa Nandy has unveiled a £270 million investment backed ‘Arts Everywhere’ Fund to revitalise the UK’s “crumbling” arts and culture infrastructure after the Covid pandemic. In a lecture last Thursday (20) at Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare’s birthplace, Nandy said the new fund was needed to meet the vision of making the arts accessible to all and mentioned British Asian filmmaker Gurinder Chadha’s 2002 boxoffice hit Bend Like Beckham to illustrate the point.

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THE John Whitgift Foundation has completed a £7.5 million sale of its Old Palace pre-school and primary school site to BAPS, which has promised to invest in the south Croydon School after it closed its doors last summer, writes . The prep and primary school on south Croydon’s Melville Avenue closed last July after serving many years as a high-performing girls’ school. The John Whitgift Foundation (JWF) cited long-running financial concerns for its closure.

2 months ago | easterneye.biz | Charlotte L. Hall |George Lythgoe

HADI MATAR, the man who attacked author Salman Rushdie on stage at a New York arts event in 2022, has been found guilty of attempted murder. A jury convicted Matar, 27, on Friday after a trial at Chautauqua County Court in Mayville. During the attack, Matar rushed onto the stage at the Chautauqua Institution as Rushdie was being introduced for a discussion on writer safety. Some videos of the attack were shown to jurors during seven days of testimony.

2 months ago | easterneye.biz | Charlotte L. Hall |George Lythgoe

KING CHARLES praised the vital role of the British Asian Trust in addressing some of the most pressing challenges across south Asia and described the trust as “a beacon of hope for countless communities” Actors, politicians and businessmen attended the charity’s annual dinner and reception at the Peninsula London last Thursday (13). More than 300 guests attended and helped to raise £750,000 to support the trust’s work in child protection, education, livelihoods, mental health and conservation.