Police are becoming increasingly concerned to know the whereabouts of 14-year-old Ellie Austin who has been missing from an address where she was staying in Somerset since 16:40hrs on Sunday, 29th June. Ellie, who is originally from Romford, is a ...
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Keep your plates safe!
Local businesses have joined with Barking and Dagenham Police to fight theft of number plates. In the last two years 935 reports of stolen vehicle number plates have been received by Barking and Dagenham Police. This means that more than ...
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The Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) has released details of its Summer Gathering. The event will be on Sunday, 24th August at Spitalfields City farm, between 12 noon and 5pm. As usual there will be workshops, stalls and a tour of ...
Read More »A wide-Ranging experience!
Emdad Rahman went on a stadium tour at Glasgow Rangers. Mohammed and I popped up to Glasgow for the day – a city with an abundance of history. Our first port of call was the historic Ibrox Stadium – to ...
Read More »Strawberry 2: strawberry and chilli nectar
British strawberries just encapsulate summer. Gently cooking fresh strawberries with dried hibiscus flowers, a little chilli and fructose sugar in a sealed bowl over hot water brings out and captures the very essence of summer. Keep the nectar in the ...
Read More »TV doctor becomes dementia friend
Popular television personality and resident house doctor on This Morning Dr. Ranj Singh has joined the Dementia Friends Campaign to help raise awareness of dementia among South Asian communities. The Dementia Friends campaign aims to give people an understanding of ...
Read More »Salman Khan thrills fans in high energy action film
Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is set to kick-start this year’s Eid celebrations with his new romantic-comedy action film Kick, which will be released on 25th July through UTV Motion Pictures. Billed as an awesome, roller-coaster ride of action, intrigue, suspense ...
Read More »Demolition of council estates is not regeneration but social cleansing
Housing activist Terry McGrenera presents a verbal snapshot of social housing in London today. On the same day, 10th June, as the GLA’s Planning Committee met to discuss the differing views of invited guests about the current surge of tall ...
Read More »Macmillan volunteers acknowledged at Barts Health Cancer Centres
Volunteers at the Barts Health Macmillan cancer information and support centre at Whipps Cross Hospital are the stars of a new video on cancer support website be.Macmillan. The centre – which provides a support service for patients affected by cancer, ...
Read More »They couldn’t see our wood for their trees
Geoff Juden, Chair of the East London Garden Society, looks at the Bishopsgate Goods Yard Development. The community has asked for Weavers Shoreditch Woods to be created: why have the developers refused? We who live in the Shoreditch area of ...
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