Emdad Rahman “The Forum” was the venue hosting the English Weightlifting Championships, a senior national competition held in Manchester, as East End teenager Taslima Begum took part in her very first competition. The Tower Hamlets Youth Sports Foundation weightlifter and Oaklands ...

Emdad Rahman The famous city may host fashion royalty, but for me a weekend trip to Milan means anything but shopping for designer clothes. Honestly, I’d rather watch paint peel. Two days away from London, and I planned to visit ...

Jay Islaam, a 34-year old marketing manager, started performing standup just two years ago – but already he’s a finalist for three different British comedy awards. Jay is up for Best Comedian prizes in London, Birmingham and Bristol over the ...

Emdad Rahman Now all one needs to gain access to the vast genius of Leonardo da Vinci is modern technology. The Italian genius’s hidden secrets are now accessible to each and every one of us through the mere click of ...

Emdad Rahman reports from Milan AC Milan 3-0 Inter Milan AC Milan took home the spoils as the Rossoneri cruised to an emphatic Serie A derby win over city rivals as Inter Milan. Former Chelsea defender Alex broke the deadlock ...

John “two jobs” Biggs has taken time out of his busy schedule juggling with two full-time jobs to steer through a new contract for advertising in some of the borough’s bus shelters. Beijing may have nine million bicycles, but Tower ...

It’s a Jazz Bonanza down at the Barbican next month, as the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) returns for their fourth International Associate residency. The residency includes three special features: saxophonist Wayne Shorter in concert; a ...

The All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Civic Societies will today host a meeting in Parliament to consider how communities can play a greater role in protecting our heritage. Tower Hamlets has a great deal of multi-cultural heritage – but ...

On 23rd April – St George’s Day – last year, the first directly-elected Muslim mayor, Lutfur Rahman, a man who had won two boroughwide elections in Tower Hamlets, was dismissed from office at the stroke of a pen from a ...

Emdad Rahman The Oaklands Weightlifters fielded three stellar athletes at the first session of a three-part London Junior Weightlifting Series this weekend. Taslima Begum, Ubayda Choudhury, and Afreen Akthar appeared in the Tower Hamlets Youth and Junior Weightlifting Club’s colours at ...