Emdad Rahman A club started off by Aindreas Ó Céirín, better known as Brother Walfrid, to provide food and warmth to starving street children has now become one of the most famous names in world football. In 1888, Brother Walfrid came up ...
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Rats! Back to Mumbai…
The stowaway rat – was it a tourist? going to visit friends in the UK? an aspiring illegal immigrant? a refugee? an economic migrant? lost? – allegedly spotted on the Air India flight on 30th December is not the airline’s ...
Read More »Danczuk suspended after “inappropriate behaviour”
“I was stupid [and] there’s no fool like an old fool,” said Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale after apologising unreservedly for his “inappropriate” behaviour” in sending sexually inappropriate text messages to a 17 year old woman. Within minutes rather than ...
Read More »Youngsters lead the way
Emdad Rahman Winter can be a time for great hardship and loneliness for some, and local youth at Splash have given up their time to make things easier for the elderly. Under the supervision of Sister Christine Frost and youth ...
Read More »Utilita Energy first to cut gas prices in 2016
Britain’s leading pre-pay energy provider, Utilita Energy, once again leads the way – being the first to cut its gas prices in time for the New Year. The average pre-pay customer in the Greater London area will see a 6.2% price ...
Read More »Go Ape – and release your inner gorilla!
Emdad Rahman What better way to spend a day in December to burn off those holiday calories than climbing and leaping from tree to tree? It is with exactly this in mind that a visit was planned to the latest Go ...
Read More »Breaking news: guilty pair sentenced to life
Would be 7/7 anniversary bombers Mohammed Rehman and Sana Ahmed Khan have both been sentenced to life imprisonment for planning terrorist acts in the UK. The two had planned to plant a bomb to mark the tenth anniversary of the ...
Read More »Tory Minister apologises for saying black people have “bad moral attitudes”
Oliver Letwin MP is the Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office. Government papers, which are routinely released after 30 years, show what he (and fellow civil servant Hartley Booth) wrote about the riots on Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate ...
Read More »Guilty as charged; wait for the backlash
Married couple Mohammed Rehman, aged 25, and Sana Ahmed Khan, 24, have been found guilty of planning to mount a terrorist explosion in London, intended to mark the tenth anniversary of the “7/7” bombings. They will be sentenced later this ...
Read More »Free fun for Tower Hamlets youngsters
As we head towards the end of the holidays, make the most of the mild spell to make sure your junior citizens get out and about instead of sitting indoors moping about. All young people in the borough aged 8-19 ...
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