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ENGLAND BASKETBALL player Orlan Jackman is pround of his East London roots – and credits his Hackney school for believing in him, encouraging him and helping him to find his sporting destiny. Jackman always wanted to play for England and ...

THERE WILL BE record numbers of sports for women and para sports at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022. This has become clear after the Commonwealth Games Federation (CGF) announced the new sports to be included in the ...

THE EUROHOCKEY Championships begin tomorrow, 16th August in Antwerp, Belgium – and Team England has announced the men’s and women’s squads. The EuroHockey Championships are a qualifying event for the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. The men’s and women’s teams both ...

TEAM ENGLAND notched up some creditable performances at the European Team Athletics Championships held over the weekend in Bydgoszcz, Poland. Richard Kilty came to Poland with two Commonwealth Games medals to his credit. Once at the Championships, he won the ...

ORIENT’S FIRST away match of the League Two season ended in disappointment, as the team came away from Macclesfield Town with a 3-0 defeat. Opinion was mixed about the reasons for the defeat, but – one way or another – ...

ALL TICKETS will be just £5 for selected home matches this season – and the first date of match date has just been announced. This special ticket incentive offer ran last year – and fans will be delighted to see ...

Maruf Ahmed TEAM BANGLADESH are pleased to announce this year’s team sponsor for the Inner City Inner London Football League World Cup which takes place in September. The World Cup holders will be sponsored by the Indian Ocean catering and ...

Emdad Rahman IN ORDER TO address the startling gang culture mentality and knife crime issues affecting communities, the Hedgecock Community Centre in Barking, in partnership with the Barking Youth Link, hosted a successful ‘United Against Knife Crime’ football tournament. The ...

Emdad Rahman WHILE THOUSANDS of Londoners were busy cycling 100 miles through London, Neo Cricket Club took on Ocean XI CC at the Peter May Sports Ground in the National Cricket League (NCL) Champions Division fixture. Ocean won the toss ...

TWO NEW ORIENT footballers – Conor Wilkinson and Lee Angol – spent yesterday down at the Orient Trust Football Camp, where they met 60 young people who have been enjoying the activity. The Football Camp is part of the Waltham ...