After 100 professional boxing fights, earning the title of “King of the Journeyman”, East-Ender Johnny Greaves has begun the next chapter of his boxing story. The 36-year-old, who bowed out from the paid ranks with a win over Dan Carr ...

Canary Wharf Group (CWG) has now launched its annual Sports Personality of the Year Awards to celebrate the top sporting talent in the East London community. CGW is seeking nominations from members of the public for deserving local athletes, sports ...

Emdad Rahman The Beanibazar Welfare Trust held its annual awards night and joint fundraiser at the Royal Regency in Newham. Guests included Stephen Timms MP, Cllr Unmesh Desai (Labour GLA Candidate for City & East), and Speaker of Tower Hamlets Council ...

The original score to the Academy Award® winning film, Still Alice, is set to be performed at a Shoreditch church next week. The film, which is about a renowned linguistics professor who develops early onset dementia, shines a light on ...

The UK sports channel Premier Sports is all set for exclusive live coverage of the BRB Bangladesh Premier League (BPL) Twenty20 2015. UK Cricket fans can watch all the matches via Sky, Virgin TalkTalk and online via the Premier Player. ...

Last Sunday’s Gala Dinner at the Hilton Hotel in Park Lane, held by the Federation of Bangaldeshi Caterers (FoBC) to dish out the Asian Curry Awards, should perhaps have been retitled “Carry on curry”. A very different event from some ...

With the election of the next London Mayor less than six months away, it’s not surprising to see Labour councillors keen to back a candidate in this important political race. It is very strange, though, to find Labour Councillors bigging ...

Labour’s John “two jobs” Biggs is looking into how to make his Administration more transparent: according to Councillors Shahed Ali and Oliur Rahman, he could make a good start by coming clean over the Rich Mix Centre. The two Independent ...

Council confirms move to Whitechapel After a six month delay, during which John Biggs tried – and failed – to find fault with Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s decision to move the Tower Hamlets Civic Centre to Whitechapel, the plan’s back on. ...

Mystery was surrounding the discovery of 150 Islamic books today… in the Limehouse Cut, a canal which runs through Tower Hamlets. The Metropolitan Police attended and rescued the books from the water – not so much an exercise in rescuing ...