Emdad Rahman Kind hearted runners enjoyed a well deserved evening out at a social event to support a local theatre. A popular fundraising quiz evening arranged by Timi Veerasamy was a big success, with £874 being raised by inter running ...
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Biggs sells off nurseries: fury grows
AS JOHN BIGGS – Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets – keeps tight lipped about his intention to sell off the last three Council day care nurseries to alternative providers, more people are coming forward to condemn the plans. Cllr Rabina ...
Read More »Death announced of Billy Graham
BILLY GRAHAM – the first evangelist Christian preacher to devote himself to reaching a mass market – has died at his home in North Carolina in the USA. He was 99 years old. Graham would book up arenas and stadia ...
Read More »New advice on what to do if your child is ill
NEW RESOURCES to help parents work out what to do if their child is ill have been launched in Tower Hamlets. Is this a way to reassure worried parents or part of a larger move to restrict access to NHS ...
Read More »Canning Town murder: third teen arrested
SEVENTEEN IS THE unlucky number in Canning Town this month, as a third teenager was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Lord Promise Nkenda in Canning Town on Valentine’s Day. Promise, as he was known, was just 17 years ...
Read More »Biggs refuses to bow to public pressure on nurseries
THE RESULTS OF THE public consultation on privatising the Council’s three remaining day nurseries begin to emerge, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs has promised to “see if [the proposals] can be improved”. Campaigners had been calling for the privatisation ...
Read More »East London cop gets community service for assault
A POLICE CONSTABLE based in Hackney has been sentenced by Westminster Magistrates’ Court to carry out 200 hours of unpaid community service. The sentence follows his conviction for assault by beating at Hendon Magistrates’ Court on 9th February. PC Kashif ...
Read More »Rohingya face further crisis as monsoon looms
REFUGEES who are surviving precariously in refugee areas in Bangladesh are facing further difficulties with the coming of the monsoon season – and many may have to flee yet again. Many of the latest refugees are surviving in makeshift camps ...
Read More »Theresa May dithers on university funding
PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has admitted that there is a problem with funding higher education in the UK. She has decisively announced that she is going to think about it for a year or so and wonder what to do. ...
Read More »Join the debate on organ donation
THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE is working with the Islam Channel to debate the issue of organ donation – because the UK Government is considering introducing legislation to change the way that donation is allowed in the UK. At present, individuals ...
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