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TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has urged residents to use the New Year to make a fresh start and give up smoking and curb their drinking of alcohol. Labour’s John Biggs promoted the stance by warning residents to pull their socks up ...

INDEPENDENT COUNCILLOR Mahbub Alam saw the seasonal break as a chance to take a few days rest and recuperation from his busy schedule. He and eleven family members booked up a holiday cottage in the village of Rhayader, Powys, in ...

THE RICH MIX team are wishing their supporters a happy new year. The cultural centre is remembered in Tower Hamlets for winning generous public subsidy and in particular for the controversial £850,00 loan it received from the Council some years ...

Emdad Rahman AN EAST END charity is appealing for help to support some of London’s most needy citizens. The Whitechapel based Human Relief Foundation (HRF) is calling on local residents to make generous donations of food as well as other essentials. These will ...

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% ...