Downton Abbey star Jim Carter will take part in a charity cycling ride in Madagascar this autumn in support of Richard House Children’s Hospice, of which he is a patron. The route will take cyclists through the heart of Madagascar, ...

Local artists are excited to see new artwork filling the white space on the walls of the new dental hospital. Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren has produced Constructing a New World to display at the site. The work was commissioned by ...

Patients and students in London’s East End are set to benefit as the UK’s first new dental school and hospital in nearly 40 years – the £78 million Royal London Dental Hospital – officially opens its doors this week. The ...

Elderly and vulnerable Londoners were warned against falling victim to courier fraud on Wednesday, 4th June as part of Courier Fraud Awareness Day. Between April 2013 and April 2014, Tower Hamlets Police received 43 reports of courier fraud. Borough Commander ...

Tower Hamlets Youth and Community Services will once again be running the Youth Opportunities Fund (YOF) this year. YOF is a special fund that offers grants of up to £3,500 for youth projects in Tower Hamlets. Funding decisions are made ...

Emdad Rahman meets Mayor Tofozzul Hussain. Mayor Tofozzul Hussain is the Municipality Mayor for Beani Bazar in Sylhet. He is a popular leader in the region and his family have served Bangladesh with distinction. During Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence, ...

Emdad Rahman: The Beani Bazar Education Trust has appointed a new committee to oversee an educational support drive to boost literacy and numeracy rates as well as supporting young people who wish to take up further education. The inauguration ceremony took place ...

Tower Hamlets Council and Police have issued community reassurance messages to local residents in response to an increase in criminal activity around Devons Road, E3. The latest incident occurred on Monday, 9th June at about 8.30pm, when police were called ...

One day back in 2009, Neil Houston had the idea of bringing his friends together to drink gin. Then, he thought – why restrict the day just to his friends? The World Gin Day has now grown into a global ...

Tower Hamlets Council is establishing a team of community champions who will be able to challenge sexual and other forms of abuse experienced by women and girls in the workplace and the community. The initiative is modeled on the community ...