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JUL17 28 KIDS The sun has certainly had its hat on the 29 FOOD & DRINK last few weeks as we have been having It’s important we all 32 SALIHA MAHMOOD-AHMED some record-breaking temperatures and I’m Misha Mistry, Design Editor 33 FASHION sure you will agree with me SAVE WATER THIS SUMMER in saying I hope it lasts all summer. 35 BEAUTY In Home/DIY this month we get some tips from HANG DON’T 37 HEALTH & FITNESS Michelle Ogundehin, whilst most of us have been UP YOUR OVERFILL spending a lot of time in the garden recently we HOSE YOUR BATH focus on how to save our hogs in Gardening. 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SURE, 1. www.affinitywater.co.uk/savewater ACROSS V4 ViSIOnHemel edition18 | to advertise call 01442 220180 ViSIOnHemel edition18 | to advertise call 07883 789530 V5 ears ago, an ex-IRA member explained that a Roughly 850 British Muslims have joined the terrorist only had to be lucky once – but that Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, around half of whom Ythe British Authorities had to be lucky every may already have returned. That is around 400 time. known ISIS sympathisers walking our streets – and Now with the IRA long out of the way, his words for all we know plotting another atrocity here on our are still very much true today, as the UK tries to deal streets. with a different terror group – Muslim jihadists. The more frightening figure is that Britain now They are in effect a Trojan horse of terror, as in contains 23,000 potential jihadist terrorists, while most cases they are British-born. the state only has the resources to monitor 3,000 Another group joins them - immigrants who come at any one time. to the UK with the avowed intention or turning The Manchester attacker Salman Abedi was Britain into an Islamic State. reported to security services at least five times by However the vast majority of Muslims who live in the local Muslim community but was not monitored the UK are peace loving and want to live within the due to lack of resources. laws and rules that exist. One of the London Bridge terrorists, Pakistani There have been three terror attacks in the UK in Khuram Butt, was reported at least twice. as many months: Westminster, Manchester, and If anything, the Westminster, Manchester, and now London again. London Bridge attacks offer a dark glimpse of And it is disaffected young European Muslims Europe’s future. who are increasingly conducting the Islamic State’s As Professor Peter Neumann of Kings College murderous revenge on the streets of European London’s International Centre for the Study of cities. Radicalisation notes: “We are dealing with a Staggeringly since 2005 with the 7/7 bombings in generational mobilisation; the consequences of London there have been 94 people murdered in the what’s happened over the past five years in Syria UK and 926 injured, many with life changing injuries haven’t even ended yet. The consequences of Syria as a result of terror attacks. will play out in the 2020s and 2030s. We are still at the very beginning.” They have all been carried out by jihadists- except one - Thomas Mair an extreme right wing terrorist And in his assessment of future jihadist activity in who killed Labour MP Jo Cox. Europe Norwegian scholar of jihadism, Professor Thomas Hegghammer predicts that the threat “will The rest have been carried out by British-born continue to increase for as long as the activists Muslims or those who have come to this country that were recruited in the early 2010s are politically as refugees. active—that is, for another 15 to 20 years”. Since 2013 security forces have stopped 18 other “It is the period in which we can expect the jihadi attacks – five of them alone around the latest hundreds of radicals who were imprisoned in the three atrocities. mid 2010s to be politically active,” he said. “I expect But realistically the UK’s security services have a them and their friends to be the jihadi entrepreneurs nigh on impossible job on keeping track of all those of the 2020s.” who potentially could carry out a terrorist jihadi act. 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Though not as recognisable a face as the flame-haired Hoppen, nor as noted as Hopwood but two bundles of joy, the internet positively buzzed with delight, and on Tuesday, June 6 the – director of the British Institute of Interior Design – the Manchester-born writer, TV presenter and award- Wtwins finally arrived. winning editor is internationally-renowned as an authority on interiors, style and contemporary design. As one might expect from the classiest couple in Hollywood, the announcement of the births was Trained as an architect at London’s celebrated Bartlett School, Ogundehin understated and succinct, delivered by publicist Stan Rosenfield in a breezy if spent two years working in architectural offices in both London and New concise statement.
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