Muhammad Talha The volunteers at Ekota Academy play a huge part in the sporting club providing excellent grassroots community programmes. For young people there’s cricket, football and martial arts, and for the elderly there’s Zumba and fitness classes for women, ...
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FA Vase home clash for Sporting Bengal
Emdad Rahman Sporting Bengal United Football Club will host Deal Town FC this Saturday in the Isuzu FA Vase Third Round Proper. Deal Town, 4-2 winners at Phoenix Sports in the Second Round, will be visiting the former Kent League ...
Read More »Headteacher Ashid All honoured by City of London
Muhammad Talha Ashid Ali, Headteacher of the London Enterprise Academy, Tower Hamlets, has been honoured during one of the oldest surviving traditional ceremonies still in existence today, one believed to have been first presented in 1237. Ali has been recognised ...
Read More »Who am I?
By Shahanara Begum My elbow used to be a dinosaur, my toenail, an ancient king, my blood was the flowing river and my stomach is the bread that I ate yesterday. A whole star had to die for me to ...
Read More »Jimmy Hill 1928-2015
Player, pundit, presenter Fearsome union leader The Bearded Beatnik always fit the bill Craven Cottage fame He once scored five in a game Farewell Jimmy as you trot over the Hill number7 © Emdad Rahman
Read More »Aminah is a success at the Young Muslim writers Awards
Emdad Rahman Aminah Jasmine Rahman fulfilled a lifelong ambition to be an award-winning poet after the youngster won the Key Stage 2 poetry award at the annual Young Muslim Writers Awards for 2015. The glittering event was held at Senate ...
Read More »To a grandson
by Dr Amanullah Ashru You are my blood. I am always with you. When you speak, I speak. With your sorrow, I cry. I am happy with your joy. You are a pearl in an oyster, hidden in my heart rhythm ...
Read More »Our children should live in peace
by Dr Amanullah Ashru Our children should live in peace. No neutron bombs, No nuclear arsenals, No chemical weapons, No more arms, no more… Our children should live in peace. Peace is a human right. The idea of peace ...
Read More »The life is in action by Dr Amanullah Ashru
The world changes. Our thought is harvested. We answer the truth. And this to happen, And time is to invest. Knowledge of birth is not dying. We are silent of our ignorance. Wisdom is information. Through years I was ...
Read More »Two poems from Dr Amanullah Ashru
Heart Sip from love’s cup, give from your own heart, drink a draught-sorrow after pain. Forsake not the thought that reply silently, holding from crowd. Each moment is a share of eternity, faith and theology, multitude formal prayer. Not your ...
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