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TRADITIONALLY it is the members of the armed and emergency services and their families who are remembered on Remembrance Day: for sacrificing their lives in defence of the UK. In recent years, civilians who have helped defend their countries or ...

TUBE WORKERS who are members of the Aslef trade union were due to go on strike on Thursday in their battle for better. That action has now been suspended because Transport for London (TfL) has come up with a better ...

England cricketer Moeen Ali is the ambassador and “Seeds of Change” is the slogan for this year’s Islamophobia Awareness Month, which runs through the month of November. The month began back in 2012, at an event in the London Muslim ...

FIREWORKS come out at Hallowe’en, at Diwali and on bonfire night: and in Tower Hamlets, that means a concentrated period of fire-related calls coming through to Fire Service control centres. A total of 685 emergency calls from Tower Hamlets have ...

Cllr Gulam Choudhury, Cabinet member for Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, has congratulated the Create Community Hub as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. Create was born as the Coborn Opportunities Project on 14th October 1984. The London Dockland Development Corporation ...

LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan is reminding Londoners that Diwail on the Square takes place this Sunday. The celebration will be taking over Trafalgar Square and all Londoners are invited. Diwali – usually translated as the “festival of lights” is a ...

CHECK YOUR cupboards! A food company FGS Ingredients Ltd, which produces spices has found out that some of the mustard it supplies to other food manufacturers has been contaminated by peanuts.  Those manufactuerers have used the contaminated mustard to make ...

MAYOR LUTFUR RAHMAN has invited primary school pupils who live or go to school in Tower Hamlets to design a festive Christmas card. The Mayor will choose some of the best designs to send out as Council cards this year. ...

Emdad Rahman Sabia Kamali, Councillor, Cabinet Member, London Borough of Newham, and founding CEO of the Sisters’ Forum, a BAME women’s collective in East London has been recognised for her tireless efforts in helping hundreds of women escape domestic violence ...

Emdad Rahman Rofiqul Islam BCAc, Freeman of the City of London has been re elected as a Public Governor. The Thirty seven year old community activist is a renowned local community activist and is confirmed to serve a second term ...