EXCLUSIVE - Muslim Labour Party candidate held in election fraud.

A Labour local election candidate has been suspended by the Labour party following his arrest on suspicion of electoral fraud.

Quesir Mahmood, 38, was arrested on Monday and questioned by Lancashire Police in connection with alleged postal vote irregularities.

Mahmood, a project manager in the pharmaceutical industry, is standing in the Wensley Fold ward for a seat on Blackburn with Darwen Council.

He has been bailed until 4 June.

A party spokesman said: "The Labour Party takes adherence to the Electoral Commission's code of conduct very seriously.

"The individual has been suspended pending the outcome of any police investigation."

Building work starts for Mosque in historic city of Lincoln.

Work gets under-way on a giant Mosque in the historic city of Lincoln.

Construction work has got under-way on the site of the new Lincoln Mosque, almost two and a half years after the proposals were approved. The Mosque will be built on the site of a former dairy factory on the corner of Dixon Street and Boultham Park Road next to the Lidl supermarket. Plans for the Mosque put forwrd by the Islamic Association of Lincoln were given the go-ahead by Lincoln City Council in November 2012, since then the association has gained support and funds needed for the `project`. The total cost is estimated to be in the region of £1.5m and the Mosque is said to be fully funded through individual donations, the majority which have come from Lincoln and surrounding areas. It will be the first purpose built Mosque in the historic city of Lincoln and will have prayer facilities for Muslims living in Lincolnshire and is set to be completed by next year. The building will have prayer facilities for men, women, teaching spaces for boys and girls, a library and a funeral preparation room. It will also include dedicated parking for 68 cars and cycle storage spaces. Previous attempts for a Mosque to be built in the city have been controversial. A former site proposed by the Islamic Association was rejected due to parking issues and was later burnt down. Last year East Anglian Patriots (EAP) held a anti-mosque protest to show their disgust at the council for accepting the proposals. Dr Tanweer Ahmed Chairman of the Islamic Association of Lincoln said "It`s very exciting news that work is finally going to get under-way and thanks to Allah that we`re here today to start the construction that we`ve been waiting along time for, its very important for the city as a whole, the the Mosque will be a landmark to promote diversity (codeword for genocide) in Lincoln, some people were concerned about car parking and that the War Memorial would be demolished and that there`d be loudspeakers for the five times a day prayers, so we`ve worked closely with residents to address these concerns and remove a lot of misunderstandings and misconceptions, people have a right to protest but we`re more interested in building relationships with local people and communities". 

Below are a few images of what the Mosque will look like once it has been built. 

Below Muslims at the construction site.

Above a quote from Tayyip Erdogan.

Labour Party Secretary secretly filmed men urinate.

A Labour Party secretary and former council candidate has been suspended after secretly filming men urinating in Centrale shopping centre's toilets.

David Christison, ward secretary for West Thornton who also stood for Waddon in 2010, last week admitted videoing and photographing men least 30 times for sexual gratification between 2010 and last year.

The 44-year-old, of Dunheved Road South, Thornton Heath, pleaded guilty to two counts of observing a person doing a private act at Croydon Magistrates' Court on Thursday.

National party officials wrote to Christison, who also sits on a panel that allocates Government funding to community groups in West Thornton, to inform him of the suspension of both his membership and secretary position at the weekend.

The suspension will remain in place while a disciplinary panel investigates and decides whether to take futher action, which could include expulsion from the party.

It is understood Christison's party colleagues were unaware of the charges against him and he did not declare his involvement in criminal proceedings in his application, submitted in spring last year, to again stand for council in May 2014.

He failed to make the party's preliminary list of candidates for the upcoming election.

Coun Tony Newman, leader of Croydon Labour, said he was "shocked and disappointed" at the revelations.

He added: "It is very sad and I am acutely aware that there are also victims to his crime."

Christison was caught in April 2013 after a member of the public reported him behaving suspiciously to a Centrale security guard.

Staff called the police, who inspected Christison's mobile phone and found a video of a man urinating in a urinal.

Officers who searched Christison's home found laptops with 29 similar videos dating back to 2011.

He will return to Croydon Magistrates' Court on March 20 for sentencing and was granted bail on the condition he does not use Centrale's public toilets.

Christison made headlines in 2010 by taking Croydon Council to court after losing the election.

He complained poor organisation led to long queues at the Waddon polling station and left dozens of people unable to vote, but gave up on the High Court battle due to lack of funds.

Since 2012, Christison has sat on the West Thornton's Community First funding panel, which assesses and recommends bids from not-for-profit groups for Government funding.

It is not known if he remains in that role following his conviction. Pictured below: Labour leader Councillor Tony Newman (left) and David Christison (right) pictured campaigning outside St George's Church in Waddon, 2010.