CAMPAIGNERS TURNED OUT in force on Friday morning, 12th April, to draw attention to Peabody’s plans to sell off 17 Robinson Road. It was the housing association’s second attempt to auction the property to the highest bidder. Peabody Housing Association ...
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Mosque presents fundraising movie
THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE is showing the film One Day in the Haram and holding a Q&A with the director to raise money for its Endowment Fund. The unique film gives a unique eye-witness account of life inside the Holy ...
Read More »Labour calls for action against anti-LGBT Brunei
FORMER EAST END resident Emily Thornberry – now better known as Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary – has called for action to be taken against Brunei, a tiny nation on the Island of Borneo. Brunei was a British protectorate before gaining ...
Read More »Local elections in Bangladesh: democracy missing
A UK-BASED HUMAN rights organisation, “White Pigeon International (WPI)”, has held a discussion meeting on the topic of “Local Government Election Backlash, Risk of Democracy in Bangladesh”. Speakers at the discussion meeting said that the democracy of the recent local ...
Read More »Ali And Dahlia
The Pleasance Theatre, Islington Debut play from actor-playwright Tariq Jordan, about a Palestinian-Israeli love story that finds old lovers meeting once again in an Israeli interrogation room. ‘My father used to say, nearly everything in the world is made in ...
Read More »May begs Corbyn to bail her out on Brexit
IN A MOVE designed to save face but also to set up Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party as scapegoats if Brexit goes wrong, Theresa May has asked Corbyn to solve the parliamentary Brexit impasse for her. This is a ...
Read More »Nuclear accident exposes worker to plutonium overload
THE SELLAFIELD nuclear plant has been fined a staggering £380,000 for breaching health and safety procedures – which led to a worker at the plant being exposed to an unsafe level of plutonium. Those who see nuclear power as a ...
Read More »MuslimGiving: One year on!
Emdad Rahman On Monday 1st of April MuslimGiving welcomed hundreds of charities at the X+Why building based in Whitechapel, London. Charities attended the 1 Year On event from across the country to see first hand how MuslimGiving is keeping up ...
Read More »“Dim Jim” may back Tories again on Brexit
ONE OF TOWER HAMLETS’ two Labour MPs – Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for Poplar & Limehouse – has confirmed that he may once again vote with the Conservative Government rather than support his own party. Fitzpatrick was speaking on Radio 4’s ...
Read More »She Awards celebrate amazing women
Emdad Rahman The She Awards was launched in July 2018 to celebrate 100 years of the women’s vote and is a platform which recognises the achievements and contributions of women from all walks of life. This year the SHE awards celebrated ...
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