Topic: Leicester
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‘More than just running’: the group offering women a path to mental wellbeing
From coffee mornings, pamper evenings to jogging groups, Leicester-based Sisters4Islam is creating a safe space to tackle loneliness in the Muslim community
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‘Every performance is treated as my last’: Aakash Odedra on his lifelong relationship with dance
The dancer speaks about his latest production, Songs of the Bulbul, based on the Sufi poem of the captured bird
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Ramadan Revelations — a study of faith and prayer under pandemic lockdown
During an unprecedented Ramadan, photographer Nadia Girach used her camera to capture the essence of faith
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Cancer awareness activist Allia Amjad: ‘There are still so many fears and taboos’
While undergoing cancer treatment, Amjad longed to connect with other Muslim women who shared her experience, so she founded a support group
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‘I was an optometrist. Now I’m an MP. I had to sink or swim’
One hundred days into the job, parliament’s new independent members are getting to grips with the dress code and their fellow MPs. But can they make a difference?
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‘I can count the Muslim members on my hands’ — Muslim Tories on the state of the party
We asked a peer, a Senedd member and a councillor who should replace Rishi Sunak and whether the Conservatives could beat Islamophobia
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Labour needs to pay attention to a new kind of marginal seat
The 2024 general election has opened the door for smaller parties to wield serious influence. Keir Starmer’s government will ignore that at its peril
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The impact of Muslim voters at the 2024 election was even bigger than you think
Labour lost more than 300,000 votes in areas with the highest Muslim populations, leaving it with fewer supporters overall than it had in 2019
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Muslim voters credited for election of five independent pro-Palestinian MPs
Candidates running on a ceasefire ticket won more than 300,000 votes, forcing Keir Starmer’s party into second place in seats across the UK
