The Met Police launched Operation Sceptre in July – a project aimed not only at reducing knife crime but at making sure that those selling knives are aware of licensing requirements. During phase two of the operation last week, police ...
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Check your “beauty salon” is A-OK
Residents who use beauty salons in the borough have been reminded to check that the business has a current licence covering any special treatments they offer. The warning comes after the owner of Sapiano’s, a salon on the ground floor ...
Read More »Hallowe’en assault: can you help?
Police are appealing for information following an assault outside a house party in Barking. The 15-year-old male victim was a guest at a party in Crossness Road, Barking, on Hallowe’en (31st October). At around 9.30pm, he confronted a group of ...
Read More »Campaign and cultivate!
The November issue of the Voice, newsletter of the East London Garden Society (ELGS) is out – bringing readers the usual mix of campaigning issues and horticultural know-how. The important local news is that ELGS is bringing together the community ...
Read More »Commissioners efforts leave areas “under-represented for funding”
Anti-under-representation Czars correct their own under-representation gaffe Some months ago, Eric Pickles said that under Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration, Tower Hamlets Council handed out grants unevenly across the borough. He sent in “commissioners” to run the borough better – who ...
Read More »Two poems from Dr Amanullah Ashru
Heart Sip from love’s cup, give from your own heart, drink a draught-sorrow after pain. Forsake not the thought that reply silently, holding from crowd. Each moment is a share of eternity, faith and theology, multitude formal prayer. Not your ...
Read More »Commissioners to stay!
Government turns down Biggs’s request to withdraw Commissioners Biggs offers to cut East End Life if Commissioners will go John Biggs has failed in his attempt to get government Commissioners out of Tower Hamlets so that he can run the ...
Read More »Record crowds join the stars at MCM London Comic Con
MCM LONDON COMIC CON EXCEL LONDON – 23-25 OCTOBER 2015 Record numbers of visitors flocked to Britain’s leading pop culture event MCM London Comic Con this weekend. The three day show saw 130,560 pass through the doors of Excel London, ...
Read More »Safety first at Barts Health
Patients and visitors at Whipps Cross University Hospital are now able immediately to identify the senior nurse on their ward following the launch of new “Nurse in Charge” badges. As part of Barts Health’s drive to ensure safe and compassionate ...
Read More »“Be Halal” lobbies Defra on halal and welfare
Dear Minister, Behalal.org is a non political and non profit voluntary organisation set up to safeguard the halal diet. We advocate the safeguarding and improvement of animal welfare. Animal welfare in the Islamic faith is an obligation and part of ...
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