Huda, 21, from Basra speaks for the first time about her experience witnessing her sister’s abduction and honour killing. Basma Rose reports.

By Elizabeth Pearson
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At the height of the festive season, police put the pedal to the metal to drive taxi touts off the streets.
Elizabeth Pearson reports

By Shaima Al-Obaidi
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To be Muslim and a lesbian is the last taboo. New research shows that this minority group are discriminated in the Muslim community and suffer severe mental health problems. A campaign group, called Imaan, has been set up to give support and advice. But what is it like to be gay, female and Muslim? Shaima Al-Obaidi investigates.

By Iona Craig
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By train, tube and bus people move across our cities in a continuous silent migration. Iona Craig spent the night on a London bus to meet the people sharing a journey but not a word. Photographs by Andrew Bruce

Fresh from enjoying the joys of being signed to a major record label (hello tours of Australia, Japan and the USA), a UK top-five debut album (Hands, which has since gone gold), and with a seemingly impeccable skincare regime, Little Boots chats to Ollie Richter on the future of pop, Tetris and creepy old men…

Scandalous
Hammersmith Apollo
Thursday 12th February
Within in seconds of taking to the stage, Russell Brand was off into the audience like a Panther eyeing up its prey.  It appeared that large sections of the female audience were transformed into gazelles by Brand’s appearance, resistance to this predatory panther evidently futile.
Funny was in fact an accurate description of the show, laughs were free flowing until the end, as in previous shows even the act of drinking water gave a chortle from a few.  On leaving the Apollo, just about the best theatre comedy …

By Ollie Richter
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America is mental.

Hardly a revolutionary opinion, but forget thoughts of unjust wars, school ground killings, and portion sizes that Rik Waller would struggle to finish – or any other transatlantic oddities you care to mention. The proof, quite simply, lies in two words: Black Lips…

Showing at the Lyceum Theatre, Covent Garden.
Student offer: Grand Circle seats for £20.50. Available from the Box Office from 10am on the day of the performance and are limited to one ticket per student and subject to availability.
With the West End hit by a string of musical flops recently – Gone with the Wind closed after three months and Imagine This, the “Holocaust Musical”, shut after just three weeks – aspiring producers would do well to look at the example of The Lion King.
Now in its tenth year at the …

It doesn’t snow every day in our cement-covered corner of Islington, so if you’ve got some good snaps of the snow, send ‘em in to news@cityinquirer.com and we’ll display them for the world to adore.
Here is David Cano, 3rd year journalism student, and his giant snowman.
 
 
 
 
 
 

Teenagers are uniting to end bloodshed on the streets of London. But how much can grass roots movements really do to combat the recent spate of teen-on-teen killings? Amy Bourke reports

Two typical teenage boys in jeans and hoodies, one black and one Muslim, sit around a table at the top of a narrow staircase, the walls of which have been daubed with graffiti. Rather than chatting about homework or girls, they’re talking about weapons; knives and guns. They’ve both been stopped and searched by the police, who found nothing on …