His family moved to England from India shortly before he was born.”We’re living in Britain and so it shouldn’t really affect us,” he said, “but you do watch it closely because it affects our family back home and our businesses. “If there is a war, it will have definite effects here in terms of the segregation of people. Some groups will try to use it as an excuse for fighting between Indians and Pakistanis It could easily happen, and that is a worry and a danger. Both sides are going to be losers, whatever happens.”Shaffiq Hussain, 40, runs the Himalaya Restaurant He moved to Britain from Pakistan in 1985. “Obviously this is going to affect our lives, it’s our mother country,” he said. “We don’t like fighting each other: they are our neighbours.”People around here are watching the situation very very carefully. We have seen attitudes changing because of this tension, and if war starts, these attitudes will rise more.” Kulvinder Singh Gill, 46, from the Punjab region of India, works at nearby Bharat Food Stores, and has lived in England for 21 years.

His four sisters and mother live only 40 miles from Pakistan “My family feel insecure,” he said. “It’s all dirty politics, and we feel we can’t trust anyone.” “Over here, it affects the youngsters,” he said, referring to the Green Street area. “They are getting together in the parks and there is already some fighting between Pakistanis and Indians If there is war, it will get a lot worse.”. Bullying bosses who terrorise colleagues should be forced to pay substantial compensation, according to a leading employment pressure group. And even that figure is believed to be much higher when the cost of recruiting and retraining to fill the posts of victims as well as funding legal action and tribunals is taken into account.”What we are trying to do is get an amendment to the employment laws to outlaw bullying and make it an offence,” Ms Ishmael said. “We have been campaigning in this area for years but have made very little headway in persuading employers in particular that bullying is an issue they must take seriously.”The group is convinced that enshrining the anti-bullying message in the law is now the only option.”Bullies actually drive people to suicide That might sound extreme but it does happen. Getting organisations to understand that the power they give to people should never be abused is crucial.”As part of the proposed legislative change, the Work Foundation is calling for all employers to be forced to draw up proper guidelines for behaviour and structures to deal with complaints.

They insist that people should be given strong legal protection but where bullying allegations do arise they must be dealt with quickly so the problem is not allowed to fester.. Councillors in Oldham are to unveil ambitious plans to improve relations between the town’s white and Asian communities, a year after rioters fought pitched battles with police. We need to do that with lots of small-scale projects,” he said. “We need to be seen spreading the butter fairly.”Other projects will include “twinning” primary schools from Asian and white areas to promote mixing and to hold joint classes. The police and council will also launch a “unity in the community” programme for young people.These projects follow the worst rioting in Britain since the race riots of the 1980s. In May and June last year, Burnley, Oldham, Bradford and Leeds were hit by serious disturbances, often sparked off by white neo-Nazi sympathisers.Up to 500 youths and 500 police clashed at the peak of the Oldham riots, with scores of police and locals injured over two nights of violence.Mr Woolas and Asian community leaders were optimistic yesterday that tensions, which rose during the British National Party’s campaign for the council elections this month, had now subsided. The most serious problems surround Asian cab drivers still too afraid to enter some white council estates at night.In Glodwick, the neighbourhood hit by the worst violence, the mood was cautious.”There’s been no trouble since but people have lost confidence in the area,” said Saddique Azhar, a local shopkeeper.