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		<title>Update on Geeta Aulakh murder trial.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are currently getting a lot of visitors looking for information on the trial of Harpreet Aulakh and Sher Singh for the murder of Geeta Aulakh last year.
At the time of Harpreet Aulakh and Sher Singh&#8217;s arrests, the press reported that the trial for Geeta Aulakh&#8217;s murder would begin on 1st March.
The CPS has confirmed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/news/update-on-geeta-aulakh-murder-trial/</link>
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		<title>BBC Asian Network: it&#8217;s not all about the music.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To begin this post, let&#8217;s just take a moment to be clear about the proposed plans for the BBC Asian Network.
Anyone who has read the actual BBC Strategy Review (and if you haven&#8217;t then you can&#8217;t really comment) can see the outline of the plan: Asian Network will lose its national status, and be re-focused on 5 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/asian-media/bbc-asian-network-its-not-all-about-the-music/</link>
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		<title>BBC Asian Network: Most vulnerable glossed over in star-studded letter to Guardian.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is based on my comment left below Sunday&#8217;s Observer piece Why we should celebrate the end of Asian Network:
Last week a group of 100 actors, MPs and musicians wrote to the Guardian in defence of the BBC Asian Network. Leaving aside the fact that some of them are not license fee payers, the really [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/asian-media/bbc-asian-network-most-vulnerable-glossed-over-in-star-studded-letter-to-guardian/</link>
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		<title>New website: Save The Asian Network.com</title>
		<description><![CDATA[News has reached us of a new website set up to coordinate the campaign to try and save the Asian Network.
www.savetheasiannetwork.com will provide a single source for information as it unfolds relating to the BBC Asian Network.  The site provides real-time news from multiple cited sources including conventional media and micro-blogging sources like Twitter.
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		<link>http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/asian-media/new-website-save-the-asian-network-com/</link>
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		<title>BBC Asian Network: Where is Vijay Sharma?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC Asian Network faces closure, but Vijay Sharma (the head of the Network) is nowhere to be seen.
Yesterday the Guardian published an article by Nihal, one of the top presenters from the Asian Network. He appears to have been drafted in to make the case for the survival of the Network in its current [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/asian-media/bbc-asian-network-where-is-vijay-sharma/</link>
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		<title>Visitor Stats February</title>
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Month
Unique visitors
Number of visits
Pages
Hits
Bandwidth


Oct 2009
65
113
1369
3523
18.48 MB


Nov 2009
695
1251
5952
9944
100.42 MB


Dec 2009
2113
3314
13173
23924
308.69 MB


Jan 2010
1380
2305
9681
16312
214.14 MB


Feb 2010
1192
1951
6056
11998
169.56 MB



Blogging was light in February, but numbers were boosted by our Google rank in searches for &#8216;BBC Asian Network&#8217;. We are second on the list, above Wikipedia! A little SEO goes a long way, and we would like to welcome new readers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/admin/visitor-stats-february/</link>
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		<title>++OFFICIAL: BBC Asian Network to be closed in 2011++</title>
		<description><![CDATA[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8544150.stm

BBC 6 Music and Asian Network are facing closure, Mark Thompson, director general of the corporation, has said.
 

Update: Mark Thompson on BBC news 24 this lunchtime stated that Asian content would be re-distributed between existing platforms in local radio, national radio and TV&#8230;
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		<link>http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/asian-media/official-bbc-asian-network-to-be-closed-in-2011/</link>
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		<title>Why are the most vulnerable Asian people left out of Asian Media?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Commentator Sunny Hundal has finally mentioned BBC Asian Network on his Pickled Politics blog. Until recently he has had his say via Asians In Media where nobody can comment.
In his latest post, he gives 5 reasons why the Asian Network should not be axed. They are:
.
1) It would reduce competition
2) [the Asian Network is] A source of talent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/asian-media/why-are-the-most-vulnerable-asian-people-left-out-of-asian-media/</link>
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		<title>Will the #saveasiannetwork campaign welcome honour campaigners?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After the news broke on Friday that BBC Asian Network faces the axe along with 6 music, campaigns were launched to save the stations.
Both are visible on Twitter, whare the #saveasiannetwork campaign has been attracting regular posts from interested parties including the Asian Network&#8217;s Bobby Friction and other artists and producers.
Bobby Friction invited all supporters [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/asian-media/will-the-saveasiannetwork-campaign-welcome-honour-campaigners/</link>
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		<title>Asian Network faces axe after tinkering fails to impress.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reputable Asian Media news outlet BizAsia* reports that the BBC Asian Network faces closure.
Reports are surfacing that the BBC Asian Network has been axed, no official comment from the BBC yet.
The Times claims Mark Thompson, the Director-General, will announce next month the closure of the digital radio stations Asian Network and 6 Music
Recent announcements from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.mixtogetherandfriends.org/asian-media/asian-network-faces-axe-after-tinkering-fails-to-impress/</link>
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