Emdad Rahman NEO CRICKET CLUB has topped off a highly successful season with their First XI winning the National Cricket League on Sunday in the Diamond Premier Division.  Since cricket was released from lockdown at the end of March 2021, ...

Maruf Ahmed BERLIN’S FAMOUS FITNESS export John Reed will open its first UK club in Liverpool Street on 20th September. The new location will fuse Berlin and London music, fashion, street art and design and fitness to offer a new ...

AMONG THE most sickening sights at the end of the western occupation of Afghanistan has been that of former Prime Minister Tony Blair – lecturing us on what the UK should do about foreign policy. Blair played his part in ...

WE LOVE SPORT is celebrating the return of fans to live club football matches by offering everyone a free drink to enjoy while watching football in one of their 500 nominated pubs. Many fans will be at the game, but ...

TODAY WE continue with our occasional series The Thames today. The Thames forms the southern boundary of four East London boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Havering. In one way it is a barrier, sealing off one direction ...

FIFTY YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best-selling “singles” of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling singles ...

RUBBISH IS accumulating on One Housing (OH) estates on the Isle of Dogs, as days pass without a bin collection. It’s got residents fuming – and the Island Network is trying to get the problem sorted out. Last week’s failure ...

THE SUMMER SHOW at the London Dungeon runs till the end of August. The show offers visitors, young and old, an insight into the history of dentistry, with the chance to try out a Victorian dentist’s chair thrown in. There’s ...

OVER 11,000 RUNNERS set off on 1st August to run the London Landmarks Half Marathon – and plans are already afoot to allocate places for the 2022 event – LLHM 2022. The 2021 Half Marathon was finally held after a ...

THE ISLAND NETWORK has been recognised for the community support work it has carried out on the Isle of Dogs during the Covid crisis over the last 18 months. The recognition came from the Canary Wharf Group, who handed out ...