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Ofcom has announced the award of four new community radio licences in Leeds, Bradford, Beverley and Kingston-upon-Hull. 

Licences have been awarded to Bradford Asian Radio, Beverley FM, Hull Kingston Radio, and AKASH Radio, for a service in Leeds.

Community radio services are provided on a not-for-profit basis focusing on the delivery of specific social benefits to a particular geographical community or a community of interest.

Ofcom has awarded community radio licences to:

AKASH Radio (Akash Radio Leeds Limited)

Contact name: Gurmail S Sahota

Phone: 0788 8 696276           < /span>

E-mail: raniproperties@hotmail.com

AKASH Radio will provide a community radio service for Punjabi-speaking communities in Leeds.

Bradford Asian Radio (Bradford Asian Radio Limited)

Contact name: Syed Hassan

Phone: 0780 0 599 563 

E-mail: syedhassan@live.co.uk

Website: www.pakistanfm.co.uk

Bradford Asian Radio will serve the Asian population of Bradford, broadcasting a speech-dominated service in Urdu, Panjabi, Mirpuri, Bengali, Hindi and English.

Beverley FM (East Yorkshire Broadcasting Limited)

Contact name: Roy Harteveld

Mobile: 078 88 843167

E-mail: dfewster@aol.com

Website: www.beverleyfm.com

Beverley FM will provide a service for the residents, businesses, educational establishments, local groups and industries in Beverley and the surrounging areas.

Hull Kingston Radio (Hull Kingston Radio Limited)

Contact name: Malcolm Scott

Phone: 0783 1 365 390 

E-mail: Mal@malcolmscott.org

Website: www.hullkingstonradio.com

Hull Kingston Radio will provide a community radio service to the people of East Hull.

The licences are awarded for a five-year period.

A statement setting out the main determining factors for the awards of the community radio licences referred to above can be found on the Ofcom website.

ENDS

NOTES FOR EDITORS

1. In addition to the licence awards detailed above, Ofcom considered five further applications, but decided not to award a licence to the following groups:

• Fantastic Radio (Fantastic-FM Limited), Pudsey, West Leeds;
• Radio Azaan (Radio Azaan Limited), Leeds;
• Radio Make a Change (Make a Change Community Limited), Bradford;
• Hull Community Radio (Hull Community Radio), East Hull; and
• South Humberside Community Radio (South Humberside Community Radio Limited), Winterton, North Lincolnshire).

2. Applications for community radio licences are being invited on a region-by-region basis.  Further details can be found on the Ofcom website at: http://licensing.ofcom.org.uk/radio-broadcast-licensing/community-radio/a pply-for-licence/