The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (THCP) were joint winners of an Ethical Wildlife award at the 2015 Observer Ethical Awards last week. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Mile End covers 31 acres of woodland and is cared for ...

The BMA has responded to a survey of GPs carried out by the Alzheimer Society which found evidence that patients with dementia are being let down because there is a lack of social care support. Dr Richard Vautrey, BMA GP Committee Deputy Chair, said: ...

Emdad Rahman On 11th July, a one day multiple arts festival will take place in Dagenham Village. Dagfest, is a new free, fun, outdoor festival for all ages featuring home-grown talent and international performers in the heart of Dagenham.It will ...

In the early 1980s, there was a man called Sid who lived in Poplar. He’d stomp through the area, telling anyone who’d listen about the bombing during the Second World War – which appeared to have been targeted at him ...

Emdad Rahman A Solemn Commemoration for the UK National Srebrenica Memorial Day has taken place at Westminster Abbey. The memorial service honoured the victims and survivors of Srebrenica. The killing was perpetrated by units of the Army of Republika Srpska ...

If you know someone who’s a fan of artist and sculptor Marc Quinn, don’t ring them up on 20th July – because they’ll be at the Hackney Picturehouse, watching Gerry Fox’s documentary on Quinn and then seeing both of them ...

There was a time we wondered how the business quarter that was Canary Wharf was all going to fit in to the slender land\ mass allotted to it in the middle of Millwall Dock. How they did it, of course, ...

Fed-ex is probably best known as an international courier – although it does work in other areas of business services too. Its subsidiary FedEx Express has done some research into how much Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in Greater London ...

In the olden days, Tory governments used to send gun-boats round the world to have a go at people in other countries who were not behaving as the Brits thought they should. These days, not able to afford the gun-boats ...

There’s just two weeks to go till the Morrisons Great Newham London run – and an extra inter-borough competitive element has been introduced. Athlete Paula Radcliffe has encouraged Londoners, especially women, to join in the race, but now she’s looking ...