LOCAL HUMAN RIGHTS activists are working hard to remind fellow East Londoners of the struggle of the Palestinian people in the run up to the annual national demonstration in solidarity with displaced Palestinians. The demonstration, on 11th May, has been ...

POLICE HAVE named the man who lost his life in Hackney last Wednesday as Steven Brown, aged 47, who was from Hackney. Formal identification is awaited, with specialist police officers supporting Mr Brown’s next of kin. A post-mortem has now ...

APPLICATIONS are now open for Itikaf at the East London Mosque. Forms may be collected from reception, but applications may also be made online. The number of places available for Itikaf is limited. The successful applicants will be chosen by ...

FOUR PEOPLE have been arrested by police from the Homicide and Major Crime Command who are investigating last week’s murder in Hackney – and all have been bailed pending further investigations. A man was stabbed in Cowper Road late in ...

THE WORLD was shocked when Gyula Remes was found unresponsive in an underpass near Westminster Tube station last December and died shortly afterwards. It was even more shocking to learn that he was the second rough sleeper to die in ...

POLICE ARE looking for those who daubed racist graffiti on the entrance gates of a mosque in Preston, Lancashire – and they are treating the incident as a hate crime. It is thought that the graffiti was put up on ...

Hasina Momtaz reviews Shongram (The Struggle). A LABOUR OF LOVE: that’s how I would describe British-Bangladeshi writer, director and producer Munsur Ali’s struggle to bring Shongram to audiences across the UK. I was lucky enough to be invited to an ...

Emdad Rahman AHEAD OF THE new cricket season United Cricket Club has launched a new kit for the season. The smart navy blue outfit was unveiled in Bethnal Green at an event attended by former Bangladesh Cricket Board District Cricket ...

A SMALL OASIS of green, teeming with plant-life and the smaller kind of animal, Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park offers a welcome respite from the concrete, noise and hustle of over-developed city living. Drop in and enjoy a quiet saunter round ...

CONFLICTING VIEWS are emerging this month about the progress being made on London’s Crossrail project – to be known as the “Elizabeth Line”. Crossrail provides monthly updates to Caroline Pidgeon AM, Chair of the London Assembly Transport Committee. The latest ...