Emdad Rahman FRIENDS FC have won the annual Sonali Othith Indoor Masters Cup for 2017. The six team tournament for over-40s was played at the Mulberry Leisure Centre over six weeks and included Shadwell, Poplar, Shagor, Brothers and Weavers. Friends ...
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One Third Soup Kitchen teams up with Miss University UK
Emdad Rahman I DIDN’T expect to see many regulars today. Winter is different, and our homeless friends need to keep coming just to keep the big freeze at arms length. Stratford isn’t very friendly and we have a definite need ...
Read More »Amma’s Kitchen supports Syria Winter Appeal
Emdad Rahman A GENEROUS businessperson has donated his profits to support the humanitarian work being delivered by the Ummah Welfare Trust in Syria. Jahirul Islam, the owner of Amma’s Kitchen in Ponders End, north London, responded to the appeal and ...
Read More »Parent uproar over cuts as Biggs welcomes pilot
TOWER HAMLETS PARENTS are up in arms over John Biggs’s plans to target services for children and young people when he proposes a cuts budget to the Council on 22nd February. Parents – and junior service users – joined Council staff ...
Read More »French right in hot water over EU funds
TWO RIGHT WING French politicians are in trouble over their alleged misuse of EU funds. Marine Le Pen, Leader of the far-right, anti-immigrant Front National, has missed the deadline for paying back over £250,000 of EU funding claimed to employ ...
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