Women

OVER THE last four years, Mayor Lutfur Rahman has lived up to his promises and transformed the Tower Hamlets Youth Service. Gone are the Biggs days, when the Labour Mayor expected young people to share just eight hubs across the ...

Emdad Rahman Start your year with intention! This 365 day journal is designed to help you reflect, set goals, and create lasting habits. With a fresh prompt for every day, you’ll find space to jot down your thoughts, track your ...

THE Metropolitan Police have seen 100 offenders convicted for crimes of violence against women and girls (VAWG) since it launched a new campaign – V100 – to tackle the problem. The V100 programme identifies the men who pose the highest ...

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 ...

EASTERN CONNECTION are holding women’s coffee mornings on Tuesday mornings at the Carpenters & Docklands Centre. All women are welcome, but please register first by calling 07533-364 862. ●Read more about it: Company Drinks hold community open house Dabirul Choudhury ...

IT IS 50 YEARS since the first Asian woman joined the Metropolitan Police. PC Karpal Kaur Sandhu joined the force in 1971. The Met held a special – virtual – event to mark the occasion and remember this pioneering woman. ...

THE COURT OF APPEAL has today ruled that Shamima Begum should be permitted to return to the UK to contest the UK Government’s decision to revoke her British citizenship. The Government has responded to today’s Court of Appeal decision by ...

WHAT WILL our “new normal” look like? To inform our debate, our “thoughts” this month will feature quotes from iconoclasts who want to see freedom, equality and justice for the many. How do we conduct this debate? Can the oppressed ...

RIPPLES COME TOGETHER to create huge waves: never think that you are acting alone and cannot make a difference. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” Mother Teresa ...

HERE’S A TRIBUTE to women from a popular US author – reminding us to look at women as individuals, not as an amorphous underclass. “I try to write parts for women that are as complicated as women actually are.” Nora ...