Community

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has announced that there will be two snap exhibitions this week where the public can see the most up to date plans for the new Town Hall in Whitechapel. This is the last chance to see the ...

WHAT DO YOU order when you go to an Indian restaurant? A nice, mild korma? A traditional Biryani? A challenging Prawn Phall? Whatever your go-to meal, none of us will ask for a lightly steamed cockroach on the side – ...

AN APPEAL has gone out for the public to help find Stefana Otilia Malinici (known as Otilia), 37, who left her home in Beccles Drive, Barking, on Wednesday, 6th September. Otilia, who is from Romania, was spotted on CCTV in ...

YASIN ALI IS just 14 years old – but he is known to travel around London and its outskirts on his own and to hang out in Greenwich and Hertfordshire. He has been missing from his home in Roman Road, E3 since ...

Emdad Rahman TEAM LEGEND, sponsored by Tower Hamlets Estate Agents Hunter & Bloomfield, used their weekly football get together to raise awareness of the plight of the Rohingya people of Burma.  The Rohingya are being subjected to ongoing persecution and ...

Emdad Rahman SYLHET AID ARE proud to announce their support for the charity Human Relief Foundation in its appeal to help the Rohingya People in Bangladesh.  The Sylhet Aid team committed to raising funds for eleven emergency shelters at a ...

Emdad Rahman THE BIG FUN RUN (BFR) returns to Victoria Park later this month and a local gym for disabled people is appealing for readers to take part and raise money for this underfunded and much needed resource.  The team ...

RASHAN CHARLES died on 22nd July after police followed him into a corner shop in Hackney and restrained him. The shop CCTV captured Charles being restrained: there are allegations that he swallowed a substance and that the police officer restrained ...

Emdad Rahman THE LEADER OF Barking & Dagenham Council and the Civic Mayor were the chief guests at the opening of the Hedgecock Centre – a community hub providing services to all residents. The opening event was attended by over ...

Md Ismael THE ENERGETIC TEAM at the Barking & Dagenham Volunteer Bureau have been supporting a considerable number of local causes. Now, thanks to member Jon Gildersleeve, the Bureau has joined with local partners to support homeless residents in the borough ...