TWO BROTHERS from East London have been given lengthy jail terms after carrying out a racially motivated attack. The sentences were handed down at Woolwich Crown Court on Friday, 5th April, where the brothers stood trial. The convictions arose after ...

FORMER EAST END resident Emily Thornberry – now better known as Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary – has called for action to be taken against Brunei, a tiny nation on the Island of Borneo. Brunei was a British protectorate before gaining ...

A PRISON SENTENCE of 28 months was handed down to 75 year old Packiam Ramanathan of Burges Road, E6 at the Old Bailey on 5th April. Ramanathan had pleaded not guilty to murder of her husband, Kangusabi Ramanathan, but had ...

THE NEW GALLERY and social platform at 62 Gladstone Street is dedicated to challenging Islamophobia. The venue used to be a video shop, run by Aisha’s father. With video shops having reached the end of their lives, turning the venue ...

Emdad Rahman THE STAGE IS SET for children and young people to come together and be part of the Annual Youth Cricket Festival – an event which will celebrate all faiths and cultures. The Festival is taking place at West ...

THIS DEBUT PLAY from actor-playwright Tariq Jordan tells a Palestinian-Israeli love story that finds old lovers meeting once again in an Israeli interrogation room. “My father used to say, nearly everything in the world is made in China; except courage, ...

A UK-BASED HUMAN rights organisation, “White Pigeon International (WPI)”, has held a discussion meeting on the topic of “Local Government Election Backlash, Risk of Democracy in Bangladesh”. Speakers at the discussion meeting said that the democracy of the recent local ...

IN A MOVE designed to save face but also to set up Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party as scapegoats if Brexit goes wrong, Theresa May has asked Corbyn to solve the parliamentary Brexit impasse for her. This is a ...

SEVEN MONTHS after young Harvey Tyrrell from Harold Wood died, the police have sent a file on the case to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). Harvey was found unresponsive at the King Harold pub in Station Road, Romford, on 11th ...

Emdad Rahman ON MONDAY, 1st APRIL MuslimGiving welcomed hundreds of charities to an anniversary event at the X+Why building in Whitechapel. Representatives of charities came from across the country to see first hand how MuslimGiving is keeping its promises by ...