Emdad Rahman Veteran footballers from across London, Birmingham, Kent, Sussex, and Essex came together to support Dementia Action Week, led by the Alzheimer’s Society. The powerful show of unity took place during the latest round of matches in the Inter ...
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Breaking the Silence: Community Unites for Menopause Awareness
By Emdad Rahman The Over Fifty Ladies Consortium is hosting a vital community event titled All You Need to Know About Menopause, aiming to break the silence and stigma surrounding a subject that affects millions of women across the UK. ...
Read More »Scrutiny Committee Secure Key Win For Newham Residents Over Parking Permit Charges
In a major success for residents, the Newham scrutiny committee have played a crucial role in challenging and ultimately reducing proposed changes to visitor parking permit charges in Newham. Behind the scenes, councillors on the Scrutiny committee worked tirelessly to ...
Read More »Be Well freezes fees
WHO WANTS to be frozen all year? The Tower Hamlets Be Well centres do! The Council has frozen the fees at all its Be Well Centres for the next financial year (2025-26). Most boroughs have sports and/or leisure centres which ...
Read More »Is Whitechapel turning into Docklands?
IT IS several years since the NHS decided to modernise the Royal London Hospital – triggering a wholesale redevelopment of the surrounding part of Whitechapel. But will the development bring improvements to the area? The opportunity to improve Whitechapel wasn’t ...
Read More »NHS handles over 200,000 wheelchair requests a year
THE NUMBER OF people in England who were referred to the NHS wheelchair service in 2024 is roughly the same as the number of people who live in Northampton. What is the NHS wheelchair service? If you need a mobility ...
Read More »Exhibition celebrates early Black African East Enders
THE SLAVE TRADE was running across the Atlantic – but in Tower Hamlets, between 1567 and 1802, Black people were finding refuge and telling their stories. Now a new exhibition tells their stories. Six local residents have dug into the ...
Read More »Chisenhale Gallery announces spring arts events
THE CHISENHLE Gallery has announced a series of events which will take place over the next three months. Introduction 11am-12 noon, Saturday, 29th March An introduction to Claudia Pages Rabal’s commission Five Defence Towers, by Olivia Aherne, Curator, and Oscar ...
Read More »Cardiff beware! Gentrification’s coming!
CARDIFF: the capital of Wales; the largest city in Wales and the eleventh largest city in the United Kingdom. Nestled on the south coast of Wales, it was occupied by the Romans and then by the Normans, before being unified ...
Read More »Da’watul Islam Ladies Hold Meet & Greet
Emdad Rahman Da’watul Islam UK & Eire’s Ladies’ English Section hosted a “Meet & Greet” event at the Darul Ummah Care House, bringing together over one hundred women from diverse racial and cultural backgrounds. The event opened with recitation from ...
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