Search results for ‘Darshna Soni’
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Exclusive: Syria jihadi suspects’ families speak to C4 News
Two men from Birmingham are arrested at Heathrow on suspicion of terrorism offences in Syria. Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni speaks exclusively to their families.
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Troubled Al-Madinah free school gets new headteacher
The Department for Education confirms that the Al-Madinah free school will be taken over by a new head and the trustees have agreed to resign, our home affairs correspondent Darshna Soni reports.
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From hijab to burqa – a guide to Muslim headwear
For some, wearing Muslim headdress is an assertion of religious and cultural identity. For others, it is a symbol of female oppression. Darshna Soni explains the differences between headwear styles.
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Why Muslim women choose to wear the veil
They are accused of threatening the British way of life, provoking a debate about integration. Why are an increasing number of young Muslim women covering their faces? Darshna Soni investigates.
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Niqab ban: a safety precaution or Islamophobia? Video
Two students in Birmingham are banned from school for wearing the niqab. Darshna Soni talks to them, and the college.
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Economic growth: are things really any better
As George Osborne hails a small upturn in the economy, Darshna Soni revisits the town of Arnold, Nottinghamshire, to find out what people there whether they can tell the difference.
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Crying on camera – the crocodile tears of killers
“To shed crocodile tears is to put on an insincere act of being sad.” Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni writes about three criminal cases which have shocked the country.
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Controlled explosion on Tipton mosque device
Police investigating a nail bomb attack at a mosque in the West Midlands carry out a controlled explosion on part of the device. Darshna Soni reports from the scene.
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Woolwich suspect ‘has been preaching for years’
A local man tells Channel 4 News Home Affairs Correspondent Darshna Soni that Woolwich suspect Michael Adebolajo “has been preaching extremist messages for years”.
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Woolwich attack: chilling echoes of a previous plot?
In 2007 anti-terror officers uncovered a plot in Birmingham to kidnap and behead a serving British, Muslim soldier. Darshna Soni, who covered the 2007 case, reports.
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Ad that started Leicester’s multicultural evolution
The warnings over immigration shares many of the themes previously aired in the 1970s. Channel 4 News’s Darshna Soni describes one city’s experience of a previous wave of immigrants.
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Philpott priest: ‘We never thought they’d harm the children’
As Mairead and Mick Philpott are found guilty of the manslaughter of their six children, Darshna Soni talks to Father Alan Burbridge, the family’s priest, about the motivation behind the tragic fire.
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Invited in for tea by Shafilea’s murderers
As a court finds Shafilea Ahmed’s parents guilty of her murder, Channel 4 News correspondent Darshna Soni recalls being invited into their family home – where no trace of Shafilea was on view.
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Back to ’76 as UK faces months of drought
Britain’s water shortages may last beyond Christmas with more than half of the UK already affected and 17 new drought zones declared, as Tom Clarke, Darshna Soni and Liam Dutton report.
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Can a shorter summer break improve pupils’ performance?
Teachers in Nottingham are on strike about plans to introduce a five term year, but will a shorter summer break help boost pupils’ achievement? Darshna Soni reports from the picket line.
