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 ...
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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 »Mayor Rahman’s new broom sweeps away Cabinet cobwebs
THIS MAYOR MEANS BUSINESS. So much was clear from the second Cabinet meeting of Directly Elected Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s third Administration. Throughout the meeting, Mayor Rahman and the Aspire Cabinet made reference after reference to what support the residents of ...
Read More »All’s well – till Labour loses the plot
LONDON BANGLA COMMENT: A spirit of constructive governing broke out at Tower Hamlets Council on 27th July 2022 – the first scheduled full Council meeting since the election (the AGM in May dealt only with formalities). It was so different ...
Read More »Aspire launches campaign to save D7 bus route
IT’S OUT OF the Town Hall and back into the community for newly elected Aspire councillors in Tower Hamlets as, together with party activists, they have been trying to save the D7 bus from the Tory/Labour chop. During lockdown, the ...
Read More »And they’re off! Lib-Dems: Labour’s secret weapon?
ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We have looked at Labour’s and Aspire’s candidates for ...
Read More »Stop the wars – and fight for peace
STOPPING WAR isn’t easy – as those who attended the AGM of the Stop the War Coalition (STWC) AGM last Saturday found out as they discussed the causes of wars, old and new, around the world. The STWC came into ...
Read More »Corbyn joins Iftar – as Starmer praises “people in Mosques”
CAN WE HAVE our MP back please, Mr Starmer? That was the thought on many minds as Jeremy Corbyn joined members of the community at Iftar last week in his Islington constituency. The Iftar was supported by the Finsbury Park ...
Read More »And they’re off! Aspire showcases breadth of support
ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We’ll be looking at all the mayoral candidates in ...
Read More »And they’re off! Labour clings firmly to the past
ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We’ll be looking at all the mayoral candidates in ...
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