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Emdad Rahman FOOD POVERTY within the UK is a rising crisis, with one in five people now struggling to put food on the table. One and a half million Britons have reported not eating for a whole day because they have ...

Emdad Rahman TWO SENIOR CITIZENS from Barking & Dagenham have braved the rain to complete a sponsored walk for orphans. The veterans raised close to £2000 with their tremendous effort on London Marathon Day 2020. Lutfur Rahman, 83, and 63 year ...

OCTOBER IS breast cancer awareness month – bringing a range of charities and health organisations together to keep women aware of how to check for the condition and seek help if they need to. A range of charities are engaging ...

VOLUNTEERS organised by the Island Network have delivered 10,000 units of food assistance – food packs and meals – since lockdown began. And now the proud volunteers are taking a well earned break. The Isle of Dogs has seen its ...

WE CLAPPED NHS workers; we clapped key workers employed by Local Authorities; we clapped for public sector workers. As national lockdown eases, are these key workers still getting the recognition they deserve? A look at the campaigns currently being promoted ...

IT’S A CASE OF come and talk to the animals (and listen to what they have to say too, of course) at Stepney City Farm – for the first time in around five months. And don’t forget the plants, who ...

HOW DO YOU think of Tower Hamlets? Is it a green borough, with acres of grass, splendid trees and havens for urban wildlife? Or is it a collection of parallel dual carriageways taking people from east to west, channels built ...

THE MUSLIM PROFESSIONALS FORUM has welcomed the sentence handed out by the Court in New Zealand to Brenton Tarrant – an Australian national and white supremacist dubbed the “Islamophobic terrorist”. Tarrant had burst into the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch ...

Coggeshall Town Cricket Club have delivered a brilliant post Covid Summer Smash for Under 11 girls. Amidst a global pandemic it is one of the first cricket engagement camps to be arranged since the UK wide lockdown has been eased. ...

Khaled Noor is a solicitor, a non-practising barrister and the Principal of Blackstones Solicitors. Here he explains how to serve a divorce petition – and why it is such an important part of divorce proceedings. MARRIAGE IS A solemn commitment, ...