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15/06/2012
A pregnant Birmingham mother-of-two has appeared in court in Pakistan after being arrested last month with heroin worth £3.2m in several suitcases.
25-yea-old Khadija Shah has been held in custody with her daughter, aged four, and her five-year-old son.
She says she had been on holiday in Pakistan with relatives and had no idea what was in the cases, which she claims she was asked to bring back to the UK by ‘some men’.
Miss Shah has not been formally charged but is due to appear again in court on June 25.
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It is thought Chinese officials asked Leeds City Council to put pressure on the organisers to cancel his visit.
The 76-year-old Dalai Lama said on Friday: "That is always happening, that is almost like routine."
Although the council distanced itself from the business convention, it said it was aware of "sensitivities" around the event at which the Dalai Lama will discuss business ethics.
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Pregnant Birmingham Woman Denis SmugglingA pregnant Birmingham mother-of-two has appeared in court in Pakistan after being arrested last month with heroin worth £3.2m in several suitcases.
25-yea-old Khadija Shah has been held in custody with her daughter, aged four, and her five-year-old son.
She says she had been on holiday in Pakistan with relatives and had no idea what was in the cases, which she claims she was asked to bring back to the UK by ‘some men’.
Miss Shah has not been formally charged but is due to appear again in court on June 25.
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As the Dalai Lama begins his tour of the UK he has dismissed as "almost routine" a threat by China to pull its Olympics team out of a training camp in Leeds because of his visit to the city.
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The Tibetan spiritual leader's comments came before he addressed the Yorkshire International Business Convention.
It is thought Chinese officials asked Leeds City Council to put pressure on the organisers to cancel his visit.
The 76-year-old Dalai Lama said on Friday: "That is always happening, that is almost like routine."
Although the council distanced itself from the business convention, it said it was aware of "sensitivities" around the event at which the Dalai Lama will discuss business ethics.
Olympic Tickets Resale Site Back Online
The process of reselling Olympics tickets is open again after it failed to work properly in January.
People with unwanted tickets can now inform organiser Locog via the ticketing website, run by Ticketmaster.
Sellers will only get a refund if a buyer is found for their ticket.
Unlike in the original process, tickets will not be offered back for sale immediately but will be held until they can be offered in batches on a sport by sport basis.
Those who already hold physical tickets will be responsible for getting them to the new buyer.
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