Muhi Mikdad London Enterprise Academy celebrated International Mother Language Day on Monday, 21st February – for the seventh year running. Year 7 pupils marked the day with a cooking class and making traditional Bangladeshi snacks. They also had an art ...
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Forest Gate man plots murder on WhatsApp
IT WAS, in some senses, an easy investigation for the Metropolitan Police. Once they gained access to their suspect’s phone, they found over 2,000 WhatsApp messages in which the suspect and his accomplice planned a murder. The story began on ...
Read More »DCI celebrate grassroots heroes
Muhammad Talha Volunteers at the Docklands Community Initiative and Docklands Football Club organised a special reception to say thank you to members of the community who have supported Foodbank activities throughout Covid. Eight guests were given the red carpet treatment ...
Read More »Men from Newham and Bow part of jailed gun gang
ONE MAN FROM Newham and another from Bow were members of a crime gang jailed last month after a complex police investigation into the supply of firearms and ammunition in East London and Essex. The investigation took hundreds of hours ...
Read More »“Minarets” shortlisted for Travel Book of the Year Award
Emdad Rahman A DEBUT BOOK by a former Whitechapel resident, which explores Europe’s living Ottoman legacy, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year award – on the centenary of the Empire’s collapse. Minarets in ...
Read More »LEA students go beyond school
Muhi Mikdad WHAT IS A good education? Many people might answer this question by saying going to school is about academic excellence – getting good marks in your exams and leaving school with good academic qualifications. However, others would be ...
Read More »Mosque teams up with charity to help vulnerable families
Emdad Rahman THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE teamed up with Islamic Relief UK last month to distribute 500 winter food packs to vulnerable people, struggling financially due to the pandemic. Many people have been on short time or have lost their ...
Read More »Barking father and son guilty of “barbaric” murder
THE MURDER OF John Avers, 47, has been described by a police officer who worked on the investigation as “barbaric”. The evidence before the court exposed two heartless murderers – and the seedy side of drug trafficking in the heart ...
Read More »The Council’s fighting Covid – one test at a time
HOW MANY Tower Hamlets Council staff does it take to change a light bulb? Our guess is that no one knows (the search facility on the Council website returned 2,369 results to this question, but they didn’t seem to have ...
Read More »Speakers endorse “Bowl OUT Racism” campaign
WELL KNOWN figures from the world of cricket and beyond queued up at the launch of the Bowl OUT Racism campaign to welcome and endorse the initiative. The launch took place at the MCC Academy at Lord’s on 28th January. ...
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