FIRST THE GOOD NEWS: the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has announced that in the last quarter of last year the UK economy grew by 0.7%. The bad news is that this growth was largely funded by domestic consumption, funded ...

NHS ENGLAND Chief Executive Simon Stevens has announced that the NHS will allow the waiting time for some treatments to increase – in order to liberate vital funds for cancer treatment and Accident and Emergency (A&E) services. This is not ...

SALEH SAEED, head of the UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), has welcomed the news that the DEC Appeal has reached £40 million. The Appeal Fund was established to deal with a famine in East Africa, caused by natural factors such ...

LEYTON ORIENT manager Danny Webb has resigned – just two months after he was appointed. The team packed 12 matches into his time in charge – but won only two. Orient is now languishing at the bottom of League Two, seven ...

THE GOVERNMENT has bowed to parent and teacher pressure and announced proposals to abolish the controversial SATs tests which the nation’s seven year olds are forced to take each year. Parents have long protested that seven year olds are far ...

TAFSIA SHIKDAR is an ordinary school pupil at an ordinary school in Newham, nervous about her “A”-level exams that are coming up in the summer. From September, though, she will be doing something quite extraordinary – studying engineering at the ...

THERESA MAY has signed the letter, a man called Sir Tim Barrow – the UK’s ambassador to the EU – has taken it over to Donald Tusk, President of the European Council and Britain is on our way. We’re not sure ...

Warning: this report contains information about child cruelty which readers may find distressing. THIS IS POPLAR in 2017. A father has been convicted of murder. A mother has been convicted of allowing the death of a child. Both were found ...

Emdad Rahman THE RENOWNED community activist Khoyrul Shaheed was recently honoured by Councillor Parvez Ahmed, the Mayor of the London Mayor of Brent. Shaheed joined other community leaders at the well attended civic reception to celebrate his outstanding achievements in community ...

The East London Mosque is seeking to appoint a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to take charge of the newly created East London Mosque Trust. The Trust has been established to guide the Mosque – and its charity and community facilities ...