TOWER HAMLETS Council is holding a “live virtual discussion and Q&A session”, starting at 7pm on Wednesday, 17th February. The Council says that this is an opportunity to “ask Mayor John Biggs and a panel of health experts about Covid-19 ...

THE GOVERNMENT OF Sri Lanka has today announced that it will respect the right of Muslims to have a burial in accordance with their religious practices and obligations and will no longer take the bodies of those who have died ...

LEVELS OF infection with Covid remain high across London, according to Public Health England. The organisation has warned today (Friday, 15th January) that the public must observe the letter and the spirit of lockdown to try to bring the virus ...

TODAY: tune in to a rare opportunity to hear about life – and resistance – in the Aida Refugee Camp in Bethlehem. Munther Amira is a refugee himself: he was born in the Aida camp and still lives there. He ...

Tom Zagoria, a member of the Labour Homelessness Campaign, looks at the developing humanitarian crisis among the homeless. AS THE UK goes back into lockdown in the cold winter months, campaigners are warning that the Government’s refusal to fund a ...

A RANGE OF organisations are joining forces to urge Londoners to recognise the severity of the Covid crisis in London and to observe the letter and spirit of the lockdown. London Mayor Sadiq Khan has declared “a major incident” in ...

AS THE SECOND wave of COVID-19 sweeps the country, concerns have been raised over whether one of East London’s major hospitals is coping with COVID-19-related admissions. On 29th December, the Barts Health NHS Trust announced that its hospitals were treating ...

AS THE WORLD heads into a new year, the Coronavirus pandemic is not the only threat to our health and wellbeing. In many countries across the world, war rages on – or, even if a war has officially ended, populations ...

KHALED NOOR looks back over the Brexit process and provides a brief analysis of the Post-Brexit Trade Deal. ●Khaled Noor is a Barrister (N/P) and Solicitor. He is also a columnist, campaigner, and a Councillor in the London Borough of ...

MESUT OZIL – Arsenal and Germany footballer – joined the Island Network and the Docklands FC on the Isle of Dogs on Tuesday in a massive boost to the campaign against local children suffering from holiday hunger. Many faith-based organisations ...