LAST NOVEMBER, two friends set off for a pizza. Only one of them returned home. While they were out, 17 year old college student Duran Kajima was stabbed and later died. Now his killer has been convicted of manslaughter. It ...
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Limehouse Boxing Academy hosts End of year awards
Emdad Rahman A GROUNDBREAKING Boxing Academy in the heart of East London celebrated another successful year of coaching local youngsters with an evening of food and celebration to highlight the fantastic achievements of boxing trainees. The Limehouse Boxing Academy has ...
Read More »Beanibazar off to a winning start
Md Ismael Dakshin Surma 0-2 Beanibazar IN PREPARATION FOR the Greater Sylhet Upazila Cup 2017, Dakshin Surma and Beanibazar played the first tournament friendly. Dakshin Surma had made a shrewd appointment by naming Aktar Hussain as player manager. Dakshin Surma ...
Read More »Champions beaten by impressive Bishwanath
Emdad Rahman GRITTY BISHWANATH were impressive as two times Greater Sylhet Upazila Cup champions Osmaninagar were beaten by a solitary goal at Mabley Green. Mamun Chowdhury MBE rang many changes throughout for Osmaninagar, and an entertaining showdown in Hackney saw Pervez ...
Read More »Community event remembers 7/7
Emdad Rahman A SMALL commemoration event at Aldgate station involving members of the general community remembered the innocent lives lost on 7/7, when 52 people were tragically taken. Today is twelve years since London was temporarily bought to a standstill ...
Read More »Hafs Academy delivers community funfair
Emdad Rahman STEPNEY GREEN PARK hosted two days of family fun and activities as staff and students from the Hafs Academy worked round the clock to deliver a successful and fun-filled weekend. This community fun day promised to provide something for ...
Read More »Radio 4 marks 70th anniversary of India Partition
Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury BBC Radio 4 will be commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India in 1947. This will include an exciting dramatic revival of Salman Rushdie’s award-winning Midnight’s Children, which is due to be broadcast on the birthday of Partition ...
Read More »Jail for Romford killer
LAST MONTH Richard Laurent was found guilty of manslaughter. Last week he appeared at Woolwich Crown Court and received a prison sentence of nine years, together with a three year extension to the sentence – a total of twelve years ...
Read More »Help campaigners save TH Youth Sport
IT IS A FIGHT for survival, as Tower Hamlets Youth Sport Foundation (THYSF) tries to stave off cuts which Tower Hamlets Labour Mayor, John Biggs, is planning to the Council’s trailblazing youth sports service. Youth and community leaders across the ...
Read More »Critically ill: but who is he?
AN UNIDENTIFIED man is seriously ill in hospital – and police have no idea who he is. The man was in a shop in High Road, Leytonstone, during the afternoon on Monday, 29th June – when he collapsed. He was ...
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