“IT’S TOO LITTLE, too late” claim East London health campaigners in response to Boris Johnson’s cash handout to the NHS. With the Labour Party revealing doubts that the funding includes any new money, health activists say that in any event, ...

A MAN HAS been given an indefinite hospital order after carrying out an indiscriminate knife attack on two GP surgeries in Bow at the end of last year. He had bought the weapons online. Jeffrey Shing-lok Lueng, 41, of Guerin ...

Emdad Rahman UNITED PATLI are celebrating after regaining the Jagannathpur Union Cup – after beating 2017 winners and four times finalists Syedpur and Shaharpara Union in the final. Six of the official union teams took part in two groups of ...

JOHN BIGGS – Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets – has decided to cut the amount of money spent on Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND). And now he’s consulting the public on how to do it. As usual, ...

FOR ELEVEN YEARS, girls have been vaccinated routinely against the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). The vaccinations are offered in the first year of secondary school. Now boys will also be offered the virus in secondary schools, starting this autumn. HPV can ...

BARKING & DAGENHAM resident Emdad Rahman has been spreading a little happiness with the London Relay 2019. He has also had an eventful week in his quest to achieve two milestones. The Dagenham 88 runner was joined by family, friends ...

Emdad Rahman YOUNG AND OLD players were the key attraction as Beanibazar Sporting Club hosted a community sports event. The Club delivered a popular inter-generational badminton festival at Dagenham Park Leisure Centre, which was attended by visitors from far and ...

NEWHAM POLICE are appealing to the public to help them find Zilvanas Kareiva, who has gone missing from the Newham Centre for Mental Health. A warning comes with the appeal: Kareiva could be dangerous. Anyone who sees him is warned ...

IN 2019, the ICC Cricket World Cup returned to England for the first time in 20 years. Over one million people are expected to attend matches and World Cup action in England and Wales this summer. MFA Zaman became part ...

IT IS JUST OVER 70 years since the National Health Service (NHS) was established in the UK. It clung to one basic principle: everyone pays in according to their income; everyone receives healthcare according to their need. In recent years ...