Abu Talha Chowdhury could be the youngest member of Tower Hamlets Council if he is elected on 11th June – and what a breath of fresh air he would be on a body that so often seems to be far ...

Emdad Rahman Chelsea stars put their west London open top bus tour and title party on hold to attend ex-team mate Demba Ba’s charity night to help raise £500,000 for street children. The glitzy event at the Marriott Hotel in ...

The first quarter of 2015 saw 40,000 new homes being registered in the UK, according to figures collected by the NHBC. Unfortunately, only 5,622 of these were in London and, across the whole of the UK, only 9,735 were public ...

Emdad Rahman Thousands of people are potentially being sent home without proper support when they leave hospital or a care home. Some of them are left isolated and end up in a predicament that could have been averted. An enquiry ...

Run solo, run relay, race to end homelessness Emdad Rahman The Crisis Square Mile Run series is back. This summer the charity needs enthusiastic people to join 2,500 runners and take to the streets of London to help raise much ...

Muslim Aid’s warm kits bring comfort to many elderly in winter Amal Imad, Information & Public Affairs Department of Muslim Aid, describes what the charity’s “keep warm kits” mean to vulnerable elderly people. I recently had the pleasure of meeting ...

Mayor Lutfur Rahman gave his report to the Council (the Council voted, after he was elected, that he should have five minutes to report to each Council meeting).  Mayor Rahman went briefly through the “Pickles process”, pointing out that the ...

At last, the Price Waterhouse Cooper audit report is out. At last, we can see what the Council Tax-payers of Tower Hamlets have paid for: paid for in terms of the charges made by the auditors and paid for in ...

On Friday, 3rd October around 500 experts from London tech and business industries are expected to bed down for the night in Potters Fields Park. They will be joined by staff from hundreds of similar companies who will sleep rough ...

Tower Hamlets Council has put £1.7m into the refurbishment of eleven derelict homes in order to create new family homes for social rent. The properties had fallen into disrepair due to the lack of development funds available to local authorities ...