Cllr Nazir Ahmed FRSA – barrister, writer and analyst – explains the extra protection due to tenants during the Covid-19 pandemic. The long established legal requirement that landlords must give a minimum of two months’ Notice period when serving a ...
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New partnership promotes “read while you feed”
A new partnership between the National Literacy Trust, the Mayor’s Fund for London and HarperCollins will give 9,000 brand new children’s books to London families who are being supported by the Mayor’s Fund for London’s Kitchen Social food programme. The ...
Read More »17 arrests during Tower Hamlets day of action
SEVENTEEN Tower Hamlets residents were arrested as the police held a day of action in the borough at the end of last month. The arrests were all on suspicion of various drug offences, with three men arrests on suspicion of ...
Read More »Manorfield makes its marq-uee on space issue
MANORFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL will be trialling a new method of optimising space so that children who return to school can learn and socialise while maintaining social distance. The plan comes from architects Curl la Tourelle Head, which has suggested that ...
Read More »“Hostile Environment” threatens access to healthcare
WHILE scientists and politicians weigh up the reasons why Black and Ethnic Minority communities are suffering disproportionately high infection and death rates from Coronavirus, the healthworkers’ campaign Medact has revealed that some black and/or migrant patients are being questioned over ...
Read More »Four arrests in Canning Town murder investigation
POLICE are continuing an investigation into the death of NHS worker David Gomah – and hoping that the arrests they have made will help bring his killers to justice. David Gomoh left his home in Newham on 26th April to ...
Read More »Rabina calls for Bangladeshi voices to be heard
STANDING IN THE heart of Shadwell, the ward she represents, Cllr Rabina Khan called for the Bangladeshi community to be included in formulating a response to the COVID pandemic which has affected them so badly. Cllr Khan was speaking on ...
Read More »Island Network delivers 2,000th meal
Emdad Rahman THE ISLAND NETWORK’S Covid-19 Support Group on the Isle if Dogs has delivered its 2,135th food pack since the Lockdown started. Island Network volunteers distribute weekly meals and food packs to over 150 needy residents on the Island ...
Read More »Island Network keeps up the support
A KNOCK AT the front door always makes you nervous during the Coronavirus Lockdown. Who on earth is coming round at a time like this? But it was worth opening the door on the Isle of Dogs on Wednesday, 20th ...
Read More »What3words keeps veg stall going through Lockdown
WHAT DOES a market stall do during a Coronavirus Lockdown? That was the question FruitDesk – a family run business which has sold fruit from a stall in Leather Lane market, near Farringdon, for over 40 years – asked itself. ...
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