When we wake up in the morning, we have two simple choices.
Go back to sleep and dream, or wake up and chase those dreams.
Choice is yours …………

L.G. Lead India XI winning kids for ICC T20 world cup 2009, England.
These Indian Kids travelled around gorgeous city of Nottingham, UK with their Parents and watched Mela21 at the Ancient Market Square, on 7th June 2009.
You will see JazzyB performing at Mela21, and one of the L.G. Lead XI winner kid, Sirjanjeet Singh, age 9yrs, from India performing his skills at BBC Asian Network at Royal Concert Hall, Nottingham.
Time is like a river.
You cannot touch the same water twice,
Because the flow that has passed will never pass again.
Delight in every moment of life………………

Video shot in Nottingham and edited by me, Surinder Singh Pleased. Email me at: surinderin@hotmail.com
Quote provided by Mr, Vikash Kapoor from Delhi.
Shilpa Shetty leads campaign to save BBC Asian Network
London: Actress Shilpa Shetty one of the most recognised faces in Britain — and many leading British Asian personalities have led over 100 prominent people in a campaign to save the BBC Asian Network, whose closure was announced earlier this week.

In a letter to the BBC Trust chairman, Sir Michael Lyons, Shetty, actor-writer Meera Syal and Olympic boxer Amir Khan have called for the radio station to be saved. Signatories include cricketer Vikram Solanki, film director Gurinder Chada, and Sir Mota Singh.

The letter published today in The Guardian, expresses the signatories’ “profound shock” at the BBC’s choice to shut the national station. It says that the eight-year-ancient digital broadcaster provides a “key platform” for the national Asian community “and offers creative British Asian talent an outlet which is demonstrably under-represented in the more mainstream BBC. This would all be tragically lost if these proposals are agreed.”

The choice to shut both the Asian Network and 6 Music were part of a strategy review announced by the BBC’s director general, Mark Thompson. It said the Asian station’s output was expensive in terms of cost per listener and its output was said to be “inconsistent”.

The station, which broadcasts mainly in English but also has programmes in Hindi/Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujurati and Mirpuri, has also lost around 20 per cent of its listeners over the last three years, totalling an average of 360,000 listeners a week at the end of last year.
Viewers will have more of their £142.50 licence fee spent on core BBC programmes and Mr Thompson said he expected the plans would see an extra £600m diverted into programme making.

The director general said the digital radio stations BBC 6 Music and Asian Network will close by the end of 2011, at the earliest.

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Mr Thompson’s plans have been criticised by union leaders who say the BBC should be focusing on cutting executive pay rather than programmes and content.

The plans are part of the corporations strategy review, which has now been submitted to the BBC Trust and a wider consultation period will take place.

Speaking to staff this morning, Mr Thompson pledged that in the future 90p of every £1 of licence fee will be spent on programming and that the corporation would spend 25 per cent less on BBC online by 2013.

Among the closures will be teen services Switch and Blast, with Mr Thompson admitting Channel 4 should lead the way with these audiences.

Mr Thompson also said that Radio 2 needed to “sharpen its distinctiveness in its range of music and speech”.

While the quality of local radio should be increased, he proposed sharing more programmes across outlets during off-peak periods.

Jeremy Dear, general secretary of the National Union of Journalists, said: “If the BBC has to look at savings, they should tackle executive pay rather than programmes or content.

“The BBC is simply caving in to political and commercial pressure.”

Mr Dear said hundreds of jobs could be affected by the cuts, warning of an industrial action ballot if there were any compulsory redundancies.

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