Muhammad Rahman A DELEGATION FROM Neighbours in Poplar have returned after spending a day in Calais, France, as part of an aid deployment to support refugees and migrants. They delivered arts, crafts and footballs to Calais refugees. Sister Christine Frost ...

The man who died outside a bookmaker’s in Upper Clapton Road, Hackney, on 4th April has been named as Babatunde Akintayo Awofeso (also known as Bobby), aged 53, from Springfield. Despite receiving emergency medical treatment, Mr Awofeso died at the ...

Emdad Rahman THE SECOND veterans football tournament to support the Rohingya people of Myanmar saw Docklands FC crowned champions as eight teams took to the field to chase that elusive title. The football festival was organised by Team Rohingya, in partnership ...

EACH SPRING we have the competition to hear the first cuckoo of Spring – but when it’s an election year we have a parallel hunt for the first sighting of former Labour Councillor and Leader of the Council Michael Keith. ...

A WOMAN HAS BEEN charged with murder following the fatal stabbing of John Maclean, 35, in Galleon House a block of flats at the southern end of Manchester Road, opposite George Green school. Police were called out at around 8am ...

LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn wrote to Tory Prime Minister Theresa May after she had sent UK aircraft to bomb Syria in retaliation for President Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons against the Syrian population in Douma. Corbyn set out his ...

UKIP MEMBERS have managed to elect another Leader – but they will have to gear up for yet another election contest in a few months. Gerard Batten has won the members’ ballot – but he’s already announced that he will ...

NEW IMAGES have been released of two young men whom police want to trace in connection with an assault that took place in Newham just before last Christmas. A total of three assailants were involved. The victim, a 32 year ...

Emdad Rahman The Learn & Live Foundation organised a community charity exhibition at the Lansbury Lodge in Poplar to support the vulnerable and needy. In attendance as chief guest was Councillor Sabina Akhtar, Speaker of Tower Hamlets Council. Activities on ...

A DELIVERY DRIVER on a moped was attack and robbed by a group of youths as he drove along Ronnie Lane, E12 in Newham. The incident happened at around 6.30pm last Thursday, 5th April. The 23 year old driver was ...