THE UK GOVERNMENT will match funds raised by Islamic Relief during its Ramadan appeal up to the sum of £2 million, the charity has announced. Money raised in the Ramadan appeal will, this year, be dedicated to the effort to ...

TODAY – 22nd April – is the 26th anniversary of the murder of Stephen Lawrence. To mark the occasion, the day has been designated “Stephen Lawrence Day”, and schools are being asked to challenge racism. Stephen was murdered in a ...

POLICE HAVE released a picture of Steven Brown, 47, who was murdered in Hackney last Thursday. The picture has come out as police have revealed that the four men arrested in central London on 20th April on suspicion of murder ...

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 ...