AMID VERY difficult economic circumstances, public sector bodies have come together across East London to help young people aged 16 to 24 who have a learning disability to find employment. The partners in the scheme – Project SEARCH – are ...

A MALE NURSE has been sentenced to 15 years in jail after being convicted of raping a woman patient while he was at work in an East London hospital. He was also issued with a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for ...

Emdad Rahman LEFTLEY SPORTS CLUB, in the heart of Barking & Dagenham, is celebrating after beating Eastbury Community Association to the very first derby game between the two teams. A brace from the evergreen Zoinul Abidin and an own goal ...

Talha Rahman PUPILS AND STAFF at the London Islamic School in London E1 have become Dementia Friends after taking part in a special training programme at the school.  The learning programme, which was led by Dementia Friends Champion Emdad Rahman, ...

A £50 SHOPPING VOUCHER is being offered as a prize to encourage parents and carers in Tower Hamlets to complete a Council’s survey. The online survey is open to all parents or carers of depending children or young people and ...

IT WAS SIX YEARS for conspiracy to rob and three years for conspiracy to steal when Richard Flanagan, 27, of Heathfield Park Drive, Romford, was sentenced at Snaresbook Crown Court last month. The sentences are to run concurrently. The Court ...

Emdad Rahman To continue to promote healthy living and sports in the community, the Leftley Sports Club Team was invited to attend the Barking Abbey School community fair.  The event took place within the school fields, and attendees included students, ...

Emdad Rahman SCHOOL NURSERY NURSE and senior teaching assistant Julie Arnold, 42, has been running for almost five years. She is passionate about her work in a school for children on the autistic spectrum and also children with complex medical ...

THE TORY Government has a failing record on building social homes, says John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary. Healey was speaking as new statistics were released showing that the number of government funded socially rented homes being built has ...

AS MILLIONS OF Muslims around the world celebrated Eid, violence was escalating in the strife-torn country of Yemen – and the Islamic Relief charity was stepping up its relief operations to meet the humanitarian consequences. Fighting intensified around the port ...