Home tutors and parents of home-educated children are being invited to an information and networking event on Monday, 26th January. It’s a chance to meet other home-educating parents and to share your experiences of educating children at home. Delivered by ...
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BB Power List sponsors racing prodigy Zubair Hoque
Emdad Rahman The British Bangladeshi Power 100 has announced that it is proud to sponsor one of the most promising racing car drivers in Britain. Teenager Zubair Hoque is a racing driver from Cheshire. He competed in the BRDC Formula ...
Read More »Funds available to support young athletes
If you are a young resident of Tower Hamlets and trying to make your way as a serious athlete, help may be on hand. The GLL Sport Foundation (GSF) – the largest independent athlete support programme in the UK, operated ...
Read More »Council-funded police remove knife from streets
Three youths were arrested near Oaklands school on 7th January suspicion of possessing a dangerous martial arts knife. Officers from the Partnership Task Force (PTF) were in the Canrobert Street area, E2, when they saw three youths acting suspiciously. The ...
Read More »“The Doctor” is back: fighting fit
Carl “The Doctor” Ozimkowski looking for first win There’s an evening of boxing at York Hall on 21st March. Emdad Rahman previews the show. Welterweight boxer, Carl “The Doctor” Ozimkowski 0-3(1)-0 returns to the ring at London’s York Hall on ...
Read More »Foreign Office warning: do they know something we don’t?
Many travellers are grateful to the Foreign Office for providing intelligence on conditions overseas. However, the Independent newspaper has spotted an instance of the Foreign Office rather over-estimating the reach of Britain’s far right extremists. On 15th January, there was ...
Read More »Anti-racist campaigning cricket aficionado dies at 61
Mike Marqusee, an author who combined a passion for sport with an equally strong devotion to equality, died on 13th January in St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney. Born in the USA, Mike came to the UK to go to university ...
Read More »February at the Barbican (highlights)
February at the Barbican sees the opening of Magnificent Obsessions: The Artist as Collector, a major exhibition that presents the personal collections of artists including Damien Hirst, Edmund de Waal, Peter Blake, Pae White and Andy Warhol. The month also ...
Read More »Help us “boycott” G4S
G4S provides security systems for major Israeli prisons and detention centres, which hold Palestinian political prisoners from occupied Palestinian territory inside Israel. Human rights organisations have documented systematic torture and ill treatment of Palestinian prisoners, including child prisoners, detained within ...
Read More »Get ready to ride!
The London Bike Show – Driven by SEAT returns in February 2015 The UK’s largest cycling Show returns to ExCeL London from 12-15th February – with plenty of gear to browse and buy, exciting features to watch and take part ...
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