THERE’S BEASTS, plants and lots of outdoor enjoyment coming up at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Mile End. Join in these special events – or pop into the park when you’re passing to enjoy the great outdoors. Sunday, 26th May ...

FOUR YOUNG men have brought disgrace to the East End with their violent response to being caught out using unlawful drugs. The story It all began nearly a year ago. On 1st June 2018 Sallah Ali of Bigland Street was ...

LINDA McARITY, 50, was murdered in Tower Hamlets late last year. Her body was found at a flat in Salisbury House, Hobday Street, E14 – after police had been contacted by people concerned for her welfare. Ms McArity was pronounced ...

WE’RE IN THE middle of Mental Health Awareness Week – and Tower Hamlets Council and Tower Hamlets NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have joined forces to promote positive attitudes to body images. The Mental Health Foundation has estimated that nearly ...

THERE WERE NO pom-poms in sight in Mulberry Place tonight as John Biggs presented his new Advisory Cabinet to the Council – but as so many of the cheer-leaders were in the said Advisory Cabinet, there was no one left ...

A PASSER-BY came to the aid of two women as they were being attack by a group of teenagers – and ended up being stabbed. Fortunately, although his wound required hospital treatment it was not too serious and he was ...

Emdad Rahman SPLASH LIFESKILLS youngsters from Poplar have been using the month of Ramadan to increase their community activities. A small group of young people led by youth worker Amrana Begum visited Sonali Gardens community care centre and old people’s ...

NO UK GOVERNMENT has sold off the NHS as a single entity – but recent ones have been letting the private sector take over various parts of the service. There’s a number of big problems with this piecemeal privatisation. •Private ...

ONE MAN is dead, others have been injured and buildings, including shops and mosques, have been attacked or even burned to the ground as a wave of anti-Muslim violence has swept across Sri Lanka. The violence has come in response ...

NEARLY 8,000 women are serving officers with the Metropolitan Police at all levels, from the humblest new recruit to the Commissioner herself – but it wasn’t like that in the early days. It’s just over 100 years since the Metropolitan ...