A new partnership between the National Literacy Trust, the Mayor’s Fund for London and HarperCollins will give 9,000 brand new children’s books to London families who are being supported by the Mayor’s Fund for London’s Kitchen Social food programme. The ...
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Thought for today 11.06.20
#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...
Read More »When the East End had our own “George Floyd”
THE PARALLELS are striking. It’s no wonder that since the killing of George Floyd the Black Lives Matter movement has become impatient to end the whitewash and secure real change. It’s no wonder East London politicians are speaking out about ...
Read More »17 arrests during Tower Hamlets day of action
SEVENTEEN Tower Hamlets residents were arrested as the police held a day of action in the borough at the end of last month. The arrests were all on suspicion of various drug offences, with three men arrests on suspicion of ...
Read More »Sounds on Sunday: 50 years on/9
POP MUSIC was once so new and daring: it’s shocking to think that it’s over 50 years old. Some standards have been around for over half a century… What, then, were we listening to 50 years ago? It was an ...
Read More »Thought for today 10.06.20
#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...
Read More »East London Mosque not opening on 15th June
DURING THE lockdown, faith groups closed their buildings to their congregations – many of them broadcasting service over the internet. Now the Government has sanctioned the first step towards re-opening the buildings. It is, however, only the first step – ...
Read More »Thought for today 09.06.20
#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...
Read More »Police still working on Lea Bridge Road shooting
POLICE ARE offering a reward for information that leads directly to a conviction in respect of the killing of Grineo Daka, 27, from Stratford, who was fatally shot on 7th July last year. The shooting took place in Lea Bridge ...
Read More »BMA welcomes mask measures
FACE COVERING measures on public transport and hospitals are only the first step says the British Medical Association (BMA). Doctors have long been campaigning for more masks – and more public information about wearing them – to help slow down ...
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