AS BLAIRTE Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer battles to stamp his authority on the Labour Party, voting has started on the membership of the Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC). It may – it does – sound like the dullest election ever, ...
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Freedom 50 cyclists complete historic Oldham to London ride
Emdad Rahman A GROUP OF cyclists have completed “Freedom 50” – a historic cycle ride 50 years of Bangladesh’s independence. It is a national initiative which has seen individuals and organisations coming together to form a collective to celebrate this ...
Read More »Isle of Dogs gun dealer sent down for five years
A MAN WHO lives on the Isle of Dogs has been sentenced to five years and three months in prison for his part in the supply of a gun and ammunition. Police continue to seek Danielle Forde, 31, of Manchester ...
Read More »Is One Housing selling off Island residents?
ONE HOUSING has revealed that it plans to join the Riverside Group – and talks about the takeover are well underway. The news has come as a shock to residents of its properties in Tower Hamlets, the bulk of which ...
Read More »Outstanding achievement for British Bangladeshi woman
CONGRATULATIONS are due to Ms Farhana Ahmed, a young British woman of Bangladeshi origin, who has made an made an outstanding achievement in her studies in the UK. Farhana obtained a First Class Law Degree (LLB Hons) from the world ...
Read More »It’s 3,000 not out for Bookbike London!
BOOKBIKE LONDON has achieved a special new milestone after delivering 3,000 books. Emdad Rahman has been sharing books with keen readers – including the isolated, elderly, ill, and homeless – since starting this simple project in Barking & Dagenham. Over ...
Read More »Gun crime hits luxury flats on Isle of Dogs
POLICE CONTINUE to seek three men in connection with an incident in a restaurant in Pan Peninsula Square, E14 – one of the developments of luxury flats on the Isle of Dogs. The incident occurred just after 11pm on Saturday, ...
Read More »Labour praises its own failings on child poverty
OVER THE last five years, child poverty in Tower Hamlets has increased by just over 5,000 – that’s around an extra 20 children a week, nearly three children a day, living in families that just can’t make ends meet. During ...
Read More »Gun threat used in theft of BMW in Bow
A WHITE BMW was stolen in Priory Street, Bow, earlier this month – in a strange theft which involved the use of threatening weapons including a knife and a gun. A man was parking his car, a white BMW 3 ...
Read More »Was 2020 “the year of the bike”?
WHILE LOCKDOWN drove many East Londoners indoors for much of the last year, the slow and staggered path to a new life has introduced some of us to a new, two-wheeled friend. What is it about Conservative governments? In the ...
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