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HOUSEHOLD PETS can nod off in all sorts of strange places. The bed and mattress specialists Bed SOS ran a competition to find the cutest sleeping pets, judged on the basis of their owners’ photographs. The winner was Amy Briscoe ...

Emdad Rahman LYNNE NORTHCOTT is celebrating a fantastic week after winning the Small Business of the Year 2020 Award at the British Muslim Awards. Run Leader and sports enthusiast Lynne picked up her prize at the Mercure Hotel in Manchester. Lynne is a marathon runner who ...

IS NOW THE TIME to stop specialist modern language teaching in Tower Hamlets? The teachers and service users who came to a public meeting at the London Enterprise Academy on Saturday (25th January) said no: but one man is saying ...

BOW EAST residents are unimpressed by the announcement that the London Mayor is giving Tower Hamlets Council £350,000 to spend on helping small businesses to improve air quality in the borough. Air quality was one of the reasons why people ...

Emdad Rahman AL QALAM ACADEMY students – “little heroes” – have been busy raising the profile of a charity which has been supporting orphans. The Little Heroes project aims to raise money for Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh and Uyghur ...

Emdad Rahman Al Qalam Academy, based at the Hedgecock Community Centre, along with many schools across London got involved in the little heroes fundraising campaign organised by Lonely Orphans, a UK based charity in Whitechapel London. The pupils of the ...

BARKING & DAGENHAM residents are being encouraged to join the British Red Cross Community Resilience Advocate Programme. The scheme helps people to develop the skills needed to help their community plan, prepare and respond to emergencies. Residents can play a ...

A SLOUGH taxi Driver had a lucky escape on Tuesday night when strong winds blew the roof off a block of flats in Slough High Street – sending debris crashing down into the busy road below. Cabbie Haris Baig told ...

Muhammad Talha COUNCILLOR Victoria Obaze, Speaker of Tower Hamlets Council, has spoken about her passion to use her public platform to help raise awareness of issues which impact communities. The Whitechapel Member took part in a Dementia Friends Information session ...

JAMAL AHMED is having a great year. In October he became a “Fellow of Information Privacy” (FIP). Now his business, Kazient Privacy Experts, has been named the Best Small to Medium-sized Business of 2019 at the Best Business Awards (BBAs). ...