GERMANY HAS just announced that Angela Merkel’s “open door” policy for refugees has been overturned in practice as well as forgotten in principle: only 280,000 people sought asylum in 2016 – down by 600,000 on 2015. Merkel’s original response to ...

A BURDETT ROAD shop owner has been fined £10,000 for possessing illegal cigarettes – and was ordered to pay Tower Hamlets Council’s legal costs too, estimated at around £3,000. The fine came after the Council prosecuted Oho LT, the company ...

THERESA MAY and Jeremy Hunt are still in denial about the serious problems in the NHS, as ever more professional bodies call for urgent action. The Royal College of Nursing has called the state of the NHS “the worst” that ...

Emdad Rahman SCINTILLA CRICKET CLUB is proud to announce, ahead of the 2017 season, that East End Logistics will be one of the Club’s new sponsors.  Managing Director Rob Dewan Syed will also be taking up a new role as ...

Muhammad Ismael MUSTAFA SHAHID scored the perfect hat trick as Stepney FC made hard work of beating Robin Hood Tigers to start 2017 at the top of the Inner London Winter Football League.  Muj Rahman’s men went a goal down ...

THE TOWER HAMLETS Parent and Carer survey remains open for just one more week, until 15th January. Residents are being invited to give their views on a range of services which are used by children or those looking after them. ...

PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has announced a policy decision to give more priority to treating mental illness. As her announcement contained virtually no extra funding, it constitutes little more than wishful thinking. May made her announcement at an event held ...

OVER 10,000 owners of VW motor vehicles are planning to launch a group action in the High Court later this month. They are seeking compensation for having been sold vehicles which were programmed to pass emissions tests but exceed emissions limits ...

THE MAYOR OF London, Sadiq Khan, has condemned today’s London Tube strike as “totally unnecessary”, claiming that the dispute should have been solved “amicably”. The Labour Mayor had promised commuters there would be no more strikes on the Tube in ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has urged residents to use the New Year to make a fresh start and give up smoking and curb their drinking of alcohol. Labour’s John Biggs promoted the stance by warning residents to pull their socks up ...