The people are taking to the streets in Hackney this weekend – not in a belated exercise in participative democracy, but in a pair of running competitions under the name Vitality Run Hackney which will be fun for participants and ...

Every General Election is important, and tomorrow the nation has the chance to remove from office a Coalition Government which has protected its own at the expense of the many. What are we to put in its place? There’s not ...

Tower Hamlets Youth Sport Foundation awards evening 2015 Emdad Rahman The Tower Hamlets Youth Sport Foundation has celebrated its third annual Youth Awards Presentation and Fundraising Dinner. Guests from the world of sport and showbiz attended the awards and dinner ...

League winners presented with championship trophy at Essex County Cricket Club Emdad Rahman Scintilla Cricket Club were honoured for their extraordinary 2014 Premier Division triumph as the Barking & Dagenham team were invited to The Essex county ground to watch ...

Are we on the brink of another Labour upset? Three weeks ago it seemed self-evident that the borough’s sitting Labour MPs would walk through to victory at the General Election. That was before the election court verdict in the case ...

There were smirks from the Tory benches at the last meeting of the Council as Labour Group Leader Cllr Rachael Saunders referred to Rushnara Ali as the local “MP”, who was working for her “constituents”. It had to be pointed ...

Four young medical students are facing an uncertain future as police hunt for computers containing their college work which were stolen from their shared home in Bartlett Road over the weekend. Burglars got into the premises via a window, and ...

Reporting on the General Election faded into the background over the Bank Holiday weekend as news that a woman had given birth to a baby dominated newspaper and TV headlines across the UK. The child, a girl, was born into ...

Emdad Rahman Scintilla Cricket Club – the reigning Essex County Cricket League Premier Division champions – have made a winning start to the new cricket season. In the season’s curtain raiser, the current Premier Division holders saw off Aztecs who ...

Emdad Rahman At the start of the league season, Scintilla Cricket Club’s Second XI emulated the achievements of the senior team by notching up a win in the season’s opener. In this year’s first Essex County Cricket League fixture, Scintilla ...