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Asian Voice - Saturday 5th February 20118 www.abplgroup.com

News in BriefTop 100 Women List

To celebrate the 100th anniversary this year ofInternational Women’s Day (Mar 8), the Guardiannewspaper is asking Asian Voice readers to help. It iscompiling a list of 100 inspirational women. Here’syour chance to nominate a woman you feel deservesrecognition. To find out more visitwww.guardian.co.uk

Cat killed in horror plungeA teenage

mum, StaceyRavenhall, whohurled a four-month-old kitten,Cuwella, to itsdeath from the11th floor of aBirmingham tower block has been handed a fourmonths in custody sentence suspended for two years.Ravenall, 19, from Yardley, was also disqualified fromkeeping any animal for ten years.

Thief cagedA Midland drug addict, Amardeep Singh, who

fractured a 79-year-old woman’s hip when hesnatched her bag as she made her way to hospital tovisit her husband, has been jailed for four years.Singh, 29, from West Bromwich, who has been home-less since he was 16, was pressured by another manto carry out the robbery, Wolverhampton CrownCourt heard.

West is WestRemember East is East, the smash-hit British

Asian comedy? Well, its sequel, West is West, is beinglaunched at The Drum, the multicultural arts centre,in Birmingham later this month. An exclusiveMidlands preview will be screened at The Drum thisSaturday (Feb 5). For tickets, and more information,visit www.the-drum.org.uk

Worship ends in fireAn incense burner that had been left alight caused

a blaze at a Birmingham property. The fire happenedin Frederick Road, Sparkhill, last Tuesday when aman forgot to extinguish the burner, used in his“pooja” worship. His son, 30, suffered minor burnswhen he tried to stop the fire, which took two hoursto control.

Cowboy builderA “rogue” builder tried to fleece a Birmingham

home owner out of £7,000 by falsely claiming heneeded his whole roof replacing, Birmingham CrownCourt heard. Errol Flynn, 45, has denied a charge offraud against 64-year-old Leslie Dove, of Tyseley,reports the Birmingham Mail. Flynn had allegedlyquoted £7,000 for a job which was estimated at£2,300.

Tales from India come to Wolves British Punjabi storytellers Peter and Gorg

Chand, pictured, are inviting readers to their newshow, Henna. Henna is based around wedding tales,some collected and translated from India and otherspieced together from stories heard as youngsters.The theatrical, presented by Sampad, will take placeon Feb 17 at 7.30pm at Arena Theatre,Wolverhampton. Tickets, £8 each. For more informa-tion visit www.sampad.org.uk

Budding ambassadorsBest of luck to Rikesh Patel and Nadi Choudhury,

aged 14 and 15 respectively, from Walsall who areamong 15 candidates standing in the elections for theUK Youth Parliament. Voting begins on Monday (Feb7) and results will be announced online atwww.youthopinionsunite.co.uk from March 5.

Contact: Dhiren on 07970 911 386 or [email protected] Katwa Midland Voice

Championing DiversityWest Mercia Police has been handed an award for

promoting racial diversity. The Prince of Wales’ Racefor Opportunity group gave the force a SilverCertificate for its work. Separately, this month marksLGBT History Month. It celebrates the lives andachievements of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transcommunity and encourages everyone to recognise thepositivity of diversity and differences in cultureacross society.

Call for young talent It’s refreshing to see Bina

Ganatra, pictured, at the helmof Birmingham Future, a voicefor young professionals, thefirst person from an ethnicminority background to chairthis organisation since itsinception in 2001. Best of luckto sports fan Bina, 27, relation-ship manager at LloydsBanking Group, in encourag-ing, and getting nominations for this year’sBirmingham Young Professional of the Year, BYPY,awards which, we hope, will reflect the multiculturalmake-up of Birmingham. Birmingham Future has so farbeen a champion at box-ticking on diversity, some crit-ics have claimed. But this is changing, for the better, itseems. The BYPY 2011 winners will be announced at aceremony at the ICC on May 19. To find out more visitwww.birminghamyoungprofessional.co.uk

Ten years on: Ram KathaOrganisers of the 2001 Ram Katha Vedic Festival

in Birmingham are inviting people to its tenthanniversary celebration next week. Readers mayrecall how the event had, at the time, sparked con-troversy after the lead Hindu preacher pulled out atthe eleventh hour. Another cleric was quickly foundand the event, eventually, was a roaring success. Thereunion will take place next Friday (Feb 11) at ShriHindu Community Centre in Tyseley, Birmingham(B11 2JP) from 7.30pm. All welcome.

Sex beasts caged A father and son

who ran a familybusiness of “sexualslavery” by traffick-ing women toBirmingham fromRomania have beenjailed for a total 27years. BogdanNejloveanu, 51, pictured left, and his son Marius, 23,pictured right, tricked five vulnerable young womento come to England with the promise of a new homeand jobs. But instead they found themselves in asqualid flat in Small Heath and were forced to havesex with up to 20 men a day before being sent toManchester when the Nejloveanus were squeezedout by rival pimps, Manchester Crown Court heard.

Car buyer beatenA “deeply dishonest” Birmingham teenager,

Mohammed Ali, who posted a fake car advert on inter-net site Gumtree to lure a man to Birmingham and stealhis cash, has been sentenced to ten months’ detention ina young offenders’ institution, suspended for two years.The victim travelled to the city from London after seeinga Honda Accord advertised for £5,000 and then reducedto £3,750. But he was then beaten up by three men,Birmingham Crown Court heard. Ali, 18, a student atSolihull College, admitted a charge of conspiracy tosteal.

Juggling between wife and mistress

John Hemming, pictured, thecontroversial MP for Yardley,Birmingham, has admitted he maycheat on his wife once more. TheLib Dem millionaire, who hasspent the past 11 years dividinghis time between his wifeChristine and girlfriend EmilyCox, said he didn’t want to be amonk. MP Hemming, 50, told alocal newspaper he thought themedia interest in his private lifewas “bonkers”. He said: “I am not particularly trying tohave affairs. But I’m not going to say how I am going tolive my life over the next 40 years.” Mrs Hemming lastyear appeared in court charged with stealing a kittenfrom Miss Cox’s home in Moseley.

A Taste of IndiaA new Indian cookbook which features recipes forauthentic Gujarati vegetarian dishes has been launched.The book, Hansa’s, More than just a restaurant…it’smy life! has been compiled by Hansa Dabhi, a multi-award winning celebrity chef, to mark the 25th anniver-sary of herb u s i n e s s .She runsH a n s a ’ sG u j a r a t iVegetar ianRestaurantin the heartof Leedswith her lec-turer hus-band Kishor.Last week, The Guardian ranked Hansa's Restaurantamong the best top ten places to eat in Leeds. Her father,Lalbhai Mistry, who worked for the British Army, cameto Leeds in 1970 from the Ugandan capital Kampalawhere he had been posted from his native India. The restof the family, including Hansa, quickly followed. Mum-of-two Hansa, 55, has been busy travelling acrossYorkshire and is preparing to embark on a national touras part of her book-signing mission. To find out morevisit www.hansasrestaurant.com

The prestigious awardwas bestowed on LordBhattacharyya, 71, pic-tured, at the fifth annualMidlands BusinessAwards which took placeat Hilton MetropoleHotel in Birmingham lastFriday. Awarded a CBE in1997 and knighted in2003, LordBhattacharyya is thefounder of WarwickManufacturing Group,which has an annual

turnover of £120 million.On accepting the trophy,he joked: “The only thingto follow a lifetimeachievement award is anobituary. But there is stilllife and troublemaking inthis old dog.” Born inDhaka, Bangladesh, henow lives in Moseley,Birmingham, with wifeBrigid. The couple, whothis year will mark theirPearl anniversary, havethree daughters. Winners

among the nine awardcategories included:Enterprising University ofthe Year, AstonUniversity; Business

Person of the Year, CEOof Ricoh Arena inCoventry, Daniel Gidney;Young Entrepreneur ofthe Year, magician BenHanlin; and BusinessClub of the Year –N o t t i n g h a mEntrepreneurs. The black-tie, round-table event washosted by BBC MidlandsToday presenter KayAlexander and was organ-ised by the impeccablymodest gent HarjSandher. To find out morevisit www.midlandsbusi-nessawards.com

Top award for Business Guru Kumar West Midland veteran businessman Lord KumarBhattacharyya CBE has been honoured with aLifetime Contribution to Midlands’ Business Award.



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Midlands

A local businessman was named Midlands

Entrepreneur of The Year at the Midlands Business

Awards on Friday 28th January.

Leamington Spa - based Gary Summers collected the

award from TV Personality Kay Alexander at

Birmingham’s Hilton Metropole.

The award recognised his success in 2010, which saw

him successfully diversify facade contractor Alumet

Systems into renewable technologies with a new

division called EOS Energy, providing photovoltaic

solar panels to both the commercial and domestic

markets.

The success of this expansion has seen the company

recruit an additional 14 members of staff in the past 2

months and open a new indoor installers training roof.

He was commended for the successful development

of numerous other businesses in his portfolio,

including Fly Heli (a helicopter leasing firm), The Three

Graces (A bar in Leamington Spa) and

Carenquiry.co.uk (an online car dealership which offer

users a safe way to buy and sell cars). On top of this

Gary has successfully developed a real estate

business which is currently developing 52 apartments

& 5 villas in Brazil.

Summers commented “I am delighted to receive this award, 2010

was a challenging year as the tough economic climate saw

reduced spending budgets and margins across the industry. I’d

like to thank the hard work of my team in ensuring that we made

it through this difficult time. I look forward to 2011 with a great

deal of excitement!”

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