JEREMY CORBYN has announced plans to tackle homelessness – with the first target being an emergency acquisition of 8,000 properties to accommodate people who are sleeping on the streets. The Labour Leader was speaking on BBC1’s Andrew Marr Show at ...

BEFORE YOU wonder why Executive Mayor John Biggs is giving Cubitt Town Library a telling off… worry not – this is a genuine exercise in renewing the flooring. So that the work can be done, the library will be closed ...

IT IS National Blue Pancake Day. That’s breakfast sorted, then. Or, if you’re reading this in the afternoon – lunch, your afternoon tea break, tea, or dessert after dinner. It wasn’t an imaginative person who named blueberries. It’s like the ...

THERE’LL BE tea and a tour at the East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre on 18th February, with the general public being invited in for a variety of activities. The Open Afternoon will be staged as part of the ...

Emdad Rahman PLAY 4 ROHINGYA has organised a groundbreaking football tournament for bus drivers for a worthy charitable cause. Newham Leisure Centre will host the 7-a-side football day on Sunday, 4th March from 12-5pm. The Play 4 Rohingya team is a ...

TWO LABOUR MPs in Tower Hamlets have signed an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling on Israel to stop holding Palestinian children in military detention – but campaigners are asking why it has taken Rushanara Ali two months to add her ...

Emdad Rahman BARKING & DAGENHAM-based Leftley Sports Club has launched women’s cardio sessions which will take place on a weekly basis. The first group went out on Saturday morning, and activities involved brisk walking, running and jogging all within a ...

IF YOU’RE HAVING a “the diet starts tomorrow” chocolate cake for tea, relax. You’re not being self-indulgent – you’re just supporting national Chocolate Cake Day. People first began grinding cocoa beans and making cocoa powder in the mid 18th century. ...

SIX OF THE men arrested in a synchronised sweep across Newham and Essex have now been charged with drugs offences. The six have appeared at Thames Magistrates’ Court and have been remanded in custody until their next court appearance, on ...

TODAY IS Holocaust Memorial Day – and Cllr Rabina Khan has marked the occasion with an article in The Independent. She explores how words can be used to encourage hate and even provoke violence – and how we can use words ...