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A CANADIAN research team has found that the rate of dementia in the population is higher among those who live near busy roads. The research followed a massive sample – nearly two million people – in Ontario over eleven years ...

IT WAS “buy one, give one for free” in the run up to Christmas as Human Relief Foundation (HRF) volunteers asked shoppers to support a local food bank. The volunteers helped shoppers pack their bags at checkouts in the local ...

Emdad Rahman AS PART of a festive UK tour, Muslim Aid presented “Straight Outta Brooklyn” – an evening not to be missed with the renowned Imam Siraj Wahhaj from Brooklyn, New York. The event took place at the Mayfair Venue in London. Siraj ...

Domestic violence is not restricted to physical attacks: the crime of “coercive control” – where perpetrators subject their victims to mental torture – was introduced in 2015. This form of mental abuse was featured last year in The Archers, a ...

Kevin Crehan is dead – just months after he and three accomplices left raw meat sandwiches outside the Jamia Mosque in the Totterdown area of Bristol. The four tied bacon to the door handles of the mosque and tied a ...

Emdad Rahman Maybe a home is nothing but two arms holding you tight when you’re at your worst. It’s been a busy weekend for us. On Christmas Eve I visited Mujib’s Chill & Grill, who very generously agreed to donate 50% ...

Following a training programme, a residential trip and a rigorous interview process, young Tower Hamlets student Mazhar Alam has successfully made it through the selection process onto the shortlist of suitable candidates to become the Young Mayor of Tower Hamlets. Now ...

The Daily Mail and its regular columnist Katie Hopkins have apologised for an article she wrote a year ago, in which she suggested that two brothers, Mohammed Tariq Mahmood and Mohammed Zahid Mahmood, were extremists linked to Al Qaeda. The ...

Emdad Rahman Kind hearted staff from Pearson – The World’s Learning Company – have given up their time and money to bring some festive cheer to some of London’s most vulnerable citizens. The Relations & Development team members donated a ...

Muslim Aid organised a “big food drive” at the East London Mosque last Friday – with generous worshippers donating a mountain of food for those homeless at Christmas. Ten tonnes of food was handed in by those going to pray, ...