“It is incredibly fortunate that the victim lived. The investigation has shown that he [Stanislavs Leonovs] was willing to take money and attempt to kill someone – the sentence reflects just how serious a crime this was.” These were the ...

Detectives from Barking and Dagenham borough have today, Wednesday, 22 June, issued CCTV footage of the moment a brazen thief stole a woman’s purse as she choose items from a convenience store. This has been released in an effort to ...

During this holy month of Ramadan, The Baraka Khan Foundation and The London Muslim Centre (LMC) have announced that they will be working in partnership to plan the establishment of The Baraka Khan Visitor Gallery (the BKVG). The BKVG will ...

Tower Hamlets residents are to fall victim to even more Tory austerity sanctioned by Labour Mayor John Biggs, this time as he passes on 100% of government cuts to health services. In a low profile Public Health mini-budget, Mayor Biggs ...

Emdad Rahman Janomongal Shomithy Bohor Gram have held their annual Ramadan Iftar 2016 at Care House in London’s East End. The collective is the oldest of its kind in the Bangladeshi region of Sylhet and serves the people through charitable activities ...

Jeremy Corbyn MP, Leader of the Labour Party, led the parliamentary tributes to Jo Cox MP, who was murdered last week as she prepared to run a surgery in her constituency. Jeremy has compiled a video of his speech (below), ...

The murder of Jo Cox MP has shocked us all. We are shocked because someone who only became an MP because she won local popular support should not be removed from that post by a lone dissident. We are shocked ...

Many eyebrows were raised when Labour’s John Biggs became mayor of Tower Hamlets but then refused to resign as a member of the London Assembly. Each position was a full-time job, and holding two full time jobs at the same ...

Seven year old Sangeeta Digpal has won Tesco’s Ramadan poster competition. Along with hundreds of other entrants from across the country Sangeeta designed a poster showing what Ramadan means to her – and she emerged as the national winner. Sangeeta’s ...

The All-Party Parliamentary Corporate Responsibility Group (APCRG) last week announced the companies shortlisted for its 2016 National Responsible Business Champion award. And Jim Fitzpatrick, Labour MP for Poplar & Limehouse, was delighted that his nomination – of the Canary Wharf ...