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Emdad Rahman “The Forum” was the venue hosting the English Weightlifting Championships, a senior national competition held in Manchester, as East End teenager Taslima Begum took part in her very first competition. The Tower Hamlets Youth Sports Foundation weightlifter and Oaklands ...

Emdad Rahman The famous city may host fashion royalty, but for me a weekend trip to Milan means anything but shopping for designer clothes. Honestly, I’d rather watch paint peel. Two days away from London, and I planned to visit ...

Emdad Rahman reports from Milan AC Milan 3-0 Inter Milan AC Milan took home the spoils as the Rossoneri cruised to an emphatic Serie A derby win over city rivals as Inter Milan. Former Chelsea defender Alex broke the deadlock ...

Emdad Rahman The Oaklands Weightlifters fielded three stellar athletes at the first session of a three-part London Junior Weightlifting Series this weekend. Taslima Begum, Ubayda Choudhury, and Afreen Akthar appeared in the Tower Hamlets Youth and Junior Weightlifting Club’s colours at ...

Emdad Rahman Team Legend played in The Peoples FA Cup on Saturday at The Norwegian Playing Fields at Power League Newham. To be honest, we turned up to have a bit of fun and do our bit to promote and ...

Emdad Rahman Smiler Mochan is a Celtic legend whose name doesn’t crop up as much as it needs to, but I have seen his portrait hanging at Celtic Park. Celtic Football Club is quite simply the stuff dreams are made ...

Saturday, 2nd January 2016 Stevenage 2-2 Leyton Orient East London’s Leyton Orient kicked off the New Year with an away match at Stevenage – and a single point to show for their journey up the A1. Just over 4,000 fans ...

Emdad Rahman A club started off by Aindreas Ó Céirín, better known as Brother Walfrid, to provide food and warmth to starving street children has now become one of the most famous names in world football. In 1888, Brother Walfrid came up ...

Emdad Rahman What better way to spend a day in December to burn off those holiday calories than climbing and leaping from tree to tree? It is with exactly this in mind that a visit was planned to the latest Go ...

Thanks to Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s initiative to introduce a “Mayor’s Cup” football competition, grants to community football groups are now available. And just before Xmas John “two jobs” Biggs found time in his busy schedule holding down two full-time jobs ...