Emdad Rahman reports that local grassroots charity Neighbours in Poplar (NiP) is promoting a number of events during Inter Faith Week, which runs from 16th-22nd November. •On Tuesday, 17th November, from 6pm-7.30pm, there will be a Three Creeds Evening at Our ...

Home Theatre (UK) was an ambitious theatre project run by the Theatre Royal Stratford East. It saw 30 one-person shows staged in 30 homes across London on Saturday, 17th October. Now the project is moving into its second stage with ...

When the docks closed, there was much talk about how the vacated land could be used to help the now employed local population find new work. However, the then Tory Government gave the land to Canary Wharf to build an ...

John Biggs is to reveal his Cabinet at tonight’s reconvened AGM of Tower Hamlets Council – but BD News 24 is reporting who the Cabinet will be. Expected Cabinet John Biggs has already announced that instead of having just one ...

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 ...