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THE INTERNATIONAL Director of CAGE, Muhammad Rabbani, has been convicted of “wilfully obstructing or seeking to frustrate an examination or search under paragraph 18(1)(c) of Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000”. He was charged with this offence following an ...

HAVE charged Ian Anthony Rook, of no fixed address, with grievous bodily harm and possession of a lethal weapon. This follows an incident on Sunday evening, when Dr Nasser Kurdy was stabbed outside Altrincham and Hale Muslim Association. Dr Kurdy, ...

SIX PEOPLE were reported to have been injured in Stratford on Saturday evening in series of acid attacks in and around Stratford shopping mall, Tube and bus station and the surrounding area. The attacks are thought to have been carried ...

Emdad Rahman It was a night of unbelievable drama as the old guard of Stepney FC came from behind to lift the Bangladesh Football Association Sonali Bank Cup final for the very first time in their trophy-laden history.  Stepney faced ...

JOHN BIGGS was flushed with success last week – but it’s all gone horribly wrong as a household in the Council’s new housing development at Watts Grove has spent their first few hours in their new flat wading through raw sewage. The Watts Grove development ...

CAN JOHN BIGGS survive the latest scandal to hit his controversial Administration? The tables have turned, and the Government has announced that it is to send “Intervention Advisers” in to Tower Hamlets to monitor the Council’s “inadequate” Children’s Services. Labour ...

CONSTITUENTS IN Bethnal Green & Bow were stunned today as the constituency MP, Labour’s Rushanara Ali, snubbed a local reporter trying to ask her a question at a public meeting. The incident occurred at a public meeting in defence of ...

CAMPAIGNERS are calling on the Tower Hamlets public to come along to the Barts NHS Trust AGM next Wednesday and support the people who clean our local hospitals. Cleaning hospitals is not just a case of prettying up the surroundings. ...

•Story update Detective Chief Inspector Dave Whellams of the Homicide and Major Crime Command has today made a specific appeal to the public to come forward with information about a large, light coloured 4×4 type vehicle which was seen leaving ...

EAST END FAMILIES are celebrating the completion of the council’s flagship Watts Grove development in Mile End in what will be one of the first council housing developments to be built by Tower Hamlets in decades. The development, commissioned three ...