THE AREA OUTSIDE McDonald’s near the entrance to the Stratford shopping mall was the scene of heartbreak this afternoon as a teenager was stabbed to death outside the fast food outlet. The emergency services were called out at approximately 3.20pm. ...

BIMAN BANGLADESH AIRLINES has announced that from January it will operate direct flights from Manchester to Dhaka and Sylhet three times a week. The company will use state of the art Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft on the route. Biman, the ...

THEY’RE BACK! There were over 2,400 entrants nationwide – and on Sunday, 13th October the eyes of the Asian catering industry will be on the Park Plaza, Westminster as the 2,400 entrants are whittled down to just a couple of ...

WHAT WERE WE listening to 50 years ago? Here’s a short series on the hits of 1969 – two years after the Summer of Love, the year that humans landed on our moon, the last year of the 1960s. This ...

TAJ ACCOUNTANTS, an East London firm which specialises in working for small businesses, has been revealed as a finalist in the third London Asian Business Awards 2019. The firm – which has offices in Vallance Road, Tower Hamlets – received ...

THE LABOUR PARTY has halted its selection contest – which was to have voted today to find a candidate to contest Ilford South at the next General Election. The news came as the selection process was about to conclude. Labour’s ...

THE HIGH COURT has ruled that the parents of five year old Tafida Raqeeb can take their daughter to Italy to receive further medical treatment. The ruling came after medics at the Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, had informed the parents ...

Muhammad Ismael EAST LONDONERS Abdal Ahmed and Emdad Rahman have returned to London after spending the weekend in Bosnia delivering sports coaching to young people. The sports coaches travelled to Sarajevo as part of an aid deployment to the city. ...

WE OPEN THE new autumn season of The Thames Today with a look at a murky stretch of water just north of Coldharbour, E14, in a photo taken yesterday, 1st October. Here a narrow inlet feeds water from the main ...

Emdad Rahman A GROUP OF East Londoners have returned to the UK after completing an aid deployment to visit Bosnia and meet with local families. The group spent four days in Sarajevo, where their activities included providing cows to needy ...