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President Barack Obama arrived at Number 10 Downing Street today for in-depth talks with David Cameron, with the conflicts in Libya and the Middle East expecting to be the main topics.

Lord Dholakia & Lord Loomba joined celebrity TV GP, Dr Chris Steele MBE, the resident doctor on ITV’s This Morning, and chef, Phil Vickery at a reception in Parliament to support Coeliac UK’s campaign to improve the diagnosis and awareness of coeliac disease and the need to improve the availability of gluten-free food.

The UK - USA special relationship has been recognised in more ways than one. Operation Black Vote's long standing collaboration with African American’s and notables such as Rev Jesse Jackson, Rev Al Sharpton, and Congressman Emanuel Clever have been recognised by the US Embassy here in London.

OBV's Director Simon Woolley will be their invited special guest at today's set speech by President Barack Obama to both Houses of Parliament at the great Westminster Hall.

I don’t think I will ever forget the election of President Obama. I was celebrating my birthday with friends at a special US election night party as the results came tumbling in demonstrating a huge landslide for President Obama. I had never believed I would witness such an event in my lifetime. I felt moved by the poignancy of the movement representing it did as the culmination for many of one aspect of the dream of Dr Martin Luther King.

Does the chocolate giant Cadbury’s believe that the First Lady Michelle Obama would like to see Black women being described as chocolate? No, thought not. The same goes for the vast majority of Black man and woman in this country and the USA.

So we ask the question why have Cadbury’s produced an ad that shows their new chocolate bar ‘ Bliss’ surrounded by diamonds with the headlines ‘ Move over Naomi there is a new diva in town’?

A top leader of LTTE (also known as the Tamil Tigers) has apologised for the assassination of Indian Premier Rajiv Gandhi back in 1991. Kumaran Pathmanathan, who was the Treasurer of LTTE and its chief arms procurer, said that 'mistakes had been made in making Gandhi a target of the Tiger’s campaign for independence.

On a recent weekend trip going through airport security in Glasgow both my brother and I were independently of one another stopped and put through a thorough search for weapons and explosives’ respectively.

Having been convicted of racially aggravated harassment the Judge at Snaresbrook crown court showed great leniency by not automatically imprisoning Terry Fitzpatrick. Instead he will receive a nine months suspended prison sentence.

The Judge also gave an injunction that Fitzpatrick should not contact or write about Lee Jasper, myself or OBV directly or indirectly.

Simon Woolley stated,

LabourList have tweeted today that Chuka Umunna has been promoted from his role as Parliamentary Private Secretary for Labour leader Ed Miliband to Shadow Business Minister.

Commenting on his new role, Chuka tweeted the following:

"Am deeply honoured and grateful to be appointed to serve as Shadow Business Minister in John Denham's Shadow BIS team by @Ed_Miliband today."

It felt more like a State funeral than the farewell to a local councillor.

The African Ambassador's cars lined up outside the majestic Southwark Cathedral. Former Deputy Prime Minister Harriet Harman and a host of other MP's came to pay their respects. African church leaders numbered a dozen or more, and nearly a thousand other well wishes crammed into to the grand cathedral to say goodbye to Mayor Tayo Situ.