A town with an identity crisis. There are many ethnic groups here but, according to the latest census, the two biggest are around 100,000 White British people and roughly 40,000 asians or british asians, many of whom are muslim. The question is, how well do they get along . Ten years ago, panorama made a programme in blackburn posing that very question. We met two minicab drivers mohammed nawaz, whose taxi firm was staffed by all asian drivers, and ian goodliffe, whose fellow cabbies were all white. This end is predominantly white. And at the other end of town, its predominantly asian. Mohammed had a similar story to tell. Were living two different lives here, arent we . Were just going to grow apart and its going to get worse. A decade on, panorama has returned to see if thats the case. Ian now works as a Delivery Driver and still knows the town like the back of his hand. He showed us where he he felt the town was divided. These are sort of areas that youre talking about, about the in
I think blackburn will eventually become a completely muslim asian town. Should i stay or should i go. Blackburn, lancashire. A town with an identity crisis. There are many ethnic groups here, but, according to the latest census, the two biggest are around 100,000 White British people and roughly 40,000 asians or british asians, many of whom are muslim. The question is, how well do they get along . Ten years ago, panorama made a programme in blackburn posing that very question. We met two minicab drivers, mohammed nawaz, whose taxi firm was staffed by all asian drivers. And ian goodliffe, whose fellow cabbies were all white. This end is predominantly white. At the other end of town its predominantly asian. Mohammed had a similar story to tell. Were living two different lives here, arent we . Were just going to grow apart and its going to get worse. A decade on, panorama has returned to see if thats the case. Ian now works as a Delivery Driver and still knows the town like the back of h