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Sport calendar: April 2010

From golf's Estoril Open de Portugal to the start of the World Twenty20 in the West Indies.

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April 1-4 Golf Estoril, Estoril Open de Portugal April 4 Formula One Sepang, Malaysian Grand Prix April 5 Baseball America, Major League Baseball season starts April 6-7 Football Europe, Uefa Champions League, quarter finals, 2nd leg April 8-10 Horse Racing Aintree, Grand National April 8-11 Golf Augusta, Masters Tournament April 8-11 Golf Maderia, Maderira Islands Open BPI - Portugal April 11 Ice Hockey North America, Regular NHL season ends April 11 Motor Cycling Doha, MotoGP April 11-18 Tennis Monte Carlo, Monte Carlo Rolex Masters April 14 Basketball North America, Regular NBA season ends April 14-18 Equestrian Geneva, Show Jumping World Cup Final April14- 18 Motorsport Istanbul, WRC- Rally Turkey April 15-17 Martial Arts Abu Dhabi, World Professional Jiu Jitsu Cup April 17 Basketball North America, NBA play-offs start April 17-May 3 Snooker Sheffield, World Championship April 18 Formula One Shanghai, Chinese Grand Prix April 19-25 Tennis Barcelona, Barcelona Open Banco Sabadell April 20-21 Football Europe, Champions League, semi finals, 1st leg April 22-24 American Football New York, NFL Draft April 22-25 Golf Jeju Island, Ballantine's Championship April 24-25 Tennis TBC, Federation Cup semi-finals/play-offs April 25 Motor Cycling Japan, MotoGP April 26-May 5 Tennis Rome, Italian International April 27-May 1 Squash Aix-en-Provence, European Team Championships April 27-28 Football Europe, Champions League, semi finals, 1st leg April 29-May 2 Golf Seville, Open de Espana April 30-May 3 Equestrian Badminton, Badminton International Horse Trials April 30-May 16 Cricket West Indies, World Twenty20 Cup

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Tamkeen's offering
  • Option 1: 70% in year 1, 50% in year 2, 30% in year 3
  • Option 2: 50% across three years
  • Option 3: 30% across five years 
Islamophobia definition

A widely accepted definition was made by the All Party Parliamentary Group on British Muslims in 2019: “Islamophobia is rooted in racism and is a type of racism that targets expressions of Muslimness or perceived Muslimness.” It further defines it as “inciting hatred or violence against Muslims”.

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Dr Miriam Bradley, senior lecturer in humanitarian studies at the University of Manchester, has argued that, by the early 1980s, “several government policies combined to cause, rather than prevent, a famine which lasted from 1983 to 1985. Mengistu’s government imposed Stalinist-model agricultural policies involving forced collectivisation and villagisation [relocation of communities into planned villages].
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Who has lived at The Bishops Avenue?
  • George Sainsbury of the supermarket dynasty, sugar magnate William Park Lyle and actress Dame Gracie Fields were residents in the 1930s when the street was only known as ‘Millionaires’ Row’.
  • Then came the international super rich, including the last king of Greece, Constantine II, the Sultan of Brunei and Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal who was at one point ranked the third richest person in the world.
  • Turkish tycoon Halis Torprak sold his mansion for £50m in 2008 after spending just two days there. The House of Saud sold 10 properties on the road in 2013 for almost £80m.
  • Other residents have included Iraqi businessman Nemir Kirdar, singer Ariana Grande, holiday camp impresario Sir Billy Butlin, businessman Asil Nadir, Paul McCartney’s former wife Heather Mills. 
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  • Land was originally the Bishop of London's hunting park, hence the name
  • The road was laid out in the mid 19th Century, meandering through woodland and farmland
  • Its earliest houses at the turn of the 20th Century were substantial detached properties with extensive grounds

 

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