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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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. ...

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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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Enough

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Is this the way to staunch extremism?

David Cameron summed up his approach to “extremism” in one paragraph of the lengthy statement he made this week: “For all our successes as multi-racial, multi-faith democracy, we have to confront a tragic truth that there are people born and ...

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