YOUNG MEN from Tower Hamlets have completed the first stage of a journey towards a career in construction. They have undertaken pre-apprenticeship work placements with construction company Ballymore. Tower Hamlets mayor John Biggs joined the apprentices on a Docklands bridge ...

CANARY WHARF Councillor Maium Miah has been trying to unravel Council bureaucracy and get to the bottom of how the Council decides where it is going to install outdoor gyms. Now he’s asked the public to help him have a ...

HOW MANY FAMILIES must go through the agony of losing a son before schools learn how to cope with children’s allergies? A third boy with recorded allergies has lost his life because a school dealt with his fish allergy – ...

DROUGHT IS NOT just an absence of water. There are many ways a prolonged drought can set up a chain reaction which can see a community becoming dependent on aid and finding it hard to get its life going again. ...

TRIBUTES ARE flooding in to Sir Bruce Forsyth, whose death at the age of 89 has just been announced. Sir Bruce entered showbusiness at the age of 14, performing song and dance routines on the stage. He became nationally known ...

THE LAST weekend in August is always a bank holiday – but it still catches many of us out when it comes to healthcare. Regular NHS users need to plan – and the rest of us need to be aware ...

Emdad Rahman A COMMUNITY RUN and event at Barking Park has boosted a local runner’s bid to help provide fresh and clean water to those in need.  Lynne Ali-Northcott, originally from Portsmouth, has been a Londoner since 1997 and has ...

Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury “One won’t hurt” – that’s the way social smokers put it. Just 15.5% of the UK population smokes, yet 24% smoke “socially”. A study has revealed that over a quarter of Brits smoke recreationally, while the majority state ...

AFTER A FEW days of trying to reassure the public that there is no risk to health, the authorities are having to wake up to the fact that the toxic egg crisis is out of control – with many questions ...

THE UK Food Standards Agency (FSA) has admitted that the number of eggs imported into the UK from farms involved in the “toxic eggs” scare is 700,000. Nonetheless, they say that “it is very unlikely that there is any risk ...