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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 ...

Al Isharah is once more organising a summer run to raise funds for the organisation. For more information, go to: Home

Residents are invited to come along and enjoy a season of summer evening markets in Tower Hamlets this July. The summer market sessions will take place in Whitechapel and at Watney market on Friday and Saturday evenings between 7pm and ...

Tower Hamlets Council has become one of the first local authorities in London to become an accredited London Living Wage (LLW) employer – guaranteeing that its own staff and those who work for its contractors (aged 18 and over) will ...

Roman Road will host its inaugural cultural extravaganza next week – the highest-profile activity to be supported by a new Tower Hamlets Council initiative which puts power in the hands of residents. The Roman Road Festival will showcase heritage, entertainment ...