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Curry cooks warn that skill shortage puts restaurants at risk Enam Ali, who founded the British Curry Awards 10 years ago, has announced that he is working on a dossier to send to the British Government begging them to introduce ...

Emdad Rahman The Royal National Institute of Blind People (RNIB) is inviting local people to take part in fun run with a difference. Following last year’s success, it is hosting another Glow Neon 3k Fun Run from 7pm on Friday, ...

All women in the UK who are aged between 25 and 64 and are registered with a GP are offered cervical smear tests. The tests could be live-saving. There are around 3,000 new cases of cervical cancer in the UK ...

It’s been a summer of awards for the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. It began in July, when the Friends of the Cemetery Park were joint winners of the Ethical Wildlife award at the Observer’s Ethical Awards evening. Within weeks, the ...

Award-winning actress, comedian and writer Meera Syal is to open the London Memory Walk on 5th September. The Walk is the Alzheimer’s Society’s flagship fundraising event, and Meera is calling for others to sign up and walk for a world ...

Emdad Rahman Volunteers and charity workers for the Rural Development Foundation Global (RDF Global) enjoyed a weekend at the Lake District as the charity announced its latest plans in the run up to the opening of a maternity hospital in ...

Hundreds of runners fundraising for over 20 charities took part in the Muslim Charity Run 2015 at Victoria Park, Bow, East London. This year’s run evolved from the previously successful Run 4 Your Mosque. On a gloriously sunny day with ...

Do you have uncontrolled high blood pressure? Is your doctor at the end of his or her tether, trying to find new ways to get those readings down? Barts hospital may be able to help: read on. Nearly one third ...

John Biggs has admitted Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s boroughwide 20mph speed limit “will improve road safety for everyone” and his Cabinet Member for the Environment has dubbed the measure “important”. The new limit was introduced after Mayor Lutfur Rahman and his ...

Emdad Rahman The Mayor of Bexley and Lady Teresa Sumption have officially opened Emmaus Greenwich’s new shop in Welling, with speeches and a ribbon cutting ceremony. The shop is staffed by formerly homeless people, known as companions, and will create ...