Community

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, ...

THIS WEEK SEES the National Literacy Trust challenge families to take part in a #FitForLit challenge to raise money for the Trust. The charity works to improve the literacy and overall learning of disadvantaged children – work that has become ...

A TODDLER has died after falling from a window in his flat on the ninth floor of a high rise block in Haberdasher Street, Shoreditch. The accident occurred at around 4pm yesterday, Friday, 14th August. The toddler fell from a ...

Emdad Rahman A GROUP OF volunteers joined the Bethnal Green-based Lonely Orphans charity team to complete the Dover Trek. This ten mile linear walk offers panoramic views of the English Channel. Three of England’s mightiest coastal forts stand on the route, from the medieval ...