Lucky souls attending the Bronze Final of the Rugby World Cup on 30th October will be to sample a “breakfast of champions” at Signorelli’s in East Village. The artisan bakery/coffee shop has teamed up with elite rugby nutritionist Matt Lovell ...
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Firnas Airways aims for expansion
Firnas Airways is seeking to set up new scheduled services between the UK and Bangladesh, Pakistan, Iran and Saudi Arabia. Some of these routes are not currently offered by any airlines, while other routes see more demand than existing airlines ...
Read More »Football United!
Emdad Rahman reflects on the Greater Sylhet Upazila Cup 2015. The experience convinced him that grassroots football brings communities together much more than it divides them. Doubters will always walk among us. “This will create factions, and you should know ...
Read More »Chief Exec: £200,000; 237 community organisations: £0
Tower Hamlets Labour and Tory Councillors united in the last week of August and agreed to spend up to £200,000 a year employing an additional senior officer – just weeks after 237 community organisations learned that John Biggs’s Administration did ...
Read More »The tale of the Social Landlord and the broken bollard
As soon as they heard that One Housing Group is planning to redevelop all four of its housing estates on the Isle of Dogs, local residents began asking whether the housing association was competent to undertake such a large project. ...
Read More »Joan Littlewood sculpture to be unveiled in October
Joan Littlewood is often described as “pioneering”. She was part of a movement which both presented working class people on the stage and made them welcome as audiences. This wasn’t new: in Shakespeare’s time, popping down to the Globe or ...
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by Dr.Amanullah Ashru How much is enough for a tyrant to shed blood? How strong a person before the firing squad? All I seek is to live with my own views, ideas and thoughts. I must have enough air to ...
Read More »Poncho Khana: brimming with Brummie spice
Emdad Rahman En route back from the Lake District (see “Go Ape”*), we stopped off in Birmingham to empty out, fill up and recuperate. We were famished, so needing a good eat we agreed to drive up to Coventry Road ...
Read More »GO APE gears up for summer with new openings and adventures for everyone
Get ready to #shareadventure with family and friends this holiday season! This summer Go Ape <http://www.goape.co.uk>, the UK’s multi-award winning forest adventure company, has more than 55 adventures across its 28 UK sites to offer families and friends – including ...
Read More »LAQ celebrates record mega-profits with furniture donation to four supported housing units
First, the good news: East London charity The Spitalfields Crypt Trust has received a donation of furniture from housing association L&Q. The Trust, which celebrates its 50th birthday this year, provides a variety of services for over 150 recovering and ...
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