Community

The Riverside Muslim Association, Barking organised a community Iftar to celebrate the month of Ramadan.   Residents and guests from various backgrounds came together to break bred and eat at sunset.   Barking Councillor Cameron Geddes said: “I was so ...

It’s hard to keep a secret in Tower Hamlets – so all credit to East End Homes for keeping the outcome of their meeting last week totally under wraps. By way of context, you should know that when Labour Councillors ...

Operation Valour is a project commemorating the police officers from K Division (what is now Newham, Tower Hamlets, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham boroughs) who enlisted in the armed forces during the First World War and were subsequently killed in ...

The Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) has released details of its Summer Gathering. The event will be on Sunday, 24th August at Spitalfields City farm, between 12 noon and 5pm. As usual there will be workshops, stalls and a tour of ...

Bollywood superstar Salman Khan is set to kick-start this year’s Eid celebrations with his new romantic-comedy action film Kick, which will be released on 25th July through UTV Motion Pictures. Billed as an awesome, roller-coaster ride of action, intrigue, suspense ...

Geoff Juden, Chair of the East London Garden Society, looks at the Bishopsgate Goods Yard Development. The community has asked for Weavers Shoreditch Woods to be created: why have the developers refused? We who live in the Shoreditch area of ...

Who would want to go to live in Bromley anyway? Probably loads and loads of us, for some reason – as this south London Borough has had the highest rent increases for private renters in the last 12 months. It’s ...

Tower Hamlets Council celebrated grass root volunteers at the CanDo Celebration and Awards ceremony on 25th June at the Mile End Ecology Pavilion. The project provides start up support to individuals with ideas on how to help residents shape attitudes ...

The Government has made a further £1 million available to help charitable and community organisations help people to cut their fuel bills. That’s about a penny and a half per UK resident: it’s unlikely to have a major impact. The ...

The East London Gardening Society (ELGS) is still campaigning hard to get a pollution-reducing Forest Garden included in the Bishopsgate Goods Yard redevelopment. Planting on this scale is using a traditional method to improve air quality, and it would have ...