Emdad Rahman STUDENTS AND STAFF from the London Enterprise Academy delivered a community event to raise awareness and celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. Activities included fact presentations on Ramadan and a nasheed song and a Quran recitation competition ...

CEDRIC KIYAGO sent Liam Harman a text message, calling him “a dead man”. Then he murdered him. And now Kiyago is beginning a life sentence. Harman, 28, from Harold Hill, was found in the communal area of a block of ...

JEREMY CORBYN has issued a message to mark the beginning of Ramadan. Corbyn has a lifelong record of standing with and standing up for the ordinary people who are oppressed by the powerful – on grounds of race, religion or ...

A MAN HAS been sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering Alfred Purcell, 34, in Newham last summer. The trial of Keith Nelson, 51, of Mountsfield Road, E6, began on 25th April at the Old Bailey. He was convicted on 3rd ...

THE EAST LONDON Mosque & London Muslim Centre have confirmed that 1st Ramadan 1439 will be on Thursday 17th May 2018, as agreed by the Co-ordination Committee of Major Islamic Centres and Mosques in London. Tarawih prayers The Tarawih prayers will commence ...

POLICE HAVE praised a group of children for bravely speaking up and helping to ensure that a serial sex offender who targeted children and teenagers was stopped in his tracks – and locked up. The offender is Peter Michael Fisher, ...

WITH RAMADAN only matters of days away, Darul Ummah Mosque is proud to confirm the huffaz who will be leading tarweeh prayers this Ramadan. Sheikh Mansoor Al-Wuajee (Saudi Arabia) Islamic Lawyer Graduated and completed Hifz from Madina Islamic University Sheikh ...

IT WAS AN open and shut case when PC Sarah Medlock, who had been working in the East Area Command Unit (which covers Redbridge, Havering and Barking & Dagenham), appeared before a Metropolitan Police disciplinary hearing. It was alleged that ...

Emdad Rahman The return of the much anticipated Jagannathpur Union Cup saw a number of East London teams compete with their national counterparts for the right to be named annual champions. Jagannathpur is located in Sunamgonj in Sylhet, Bangladesh, and ...

A MAN HAS been sentenced to life imprisonment for attacking a woman in Rectory Road, Hackney. He is Sabir Sharife, 32, who is of no fixed abode but from the Hackney area. The Judge ordered that he should serve a ...