RUNNING 5km once a week for a year is no walk in the park – except in the case of Councillor Khaled Noor, who takes running 5k in his stride, whatever the weather. Cllr Noor is a well known figure ...

Maruf Ahmed Emdad Rahman A day after the return of Parkrun UK, London saw runners return to the streets to take part in ASICS London 10K, produced by Limelight Sports Club – the largest closed road celebration of running since ...

WHILE LOCKDOWN drove many East Londoners indoors for much of the last year, the slow and staggered path to a new life has introduced some of us to a new, two-wheeled friend. What is it about Conservative governments? In the ...

WE HAVE LONG known that people living in East London suffer from bad health – not least because of poverty and discrimination in our area. Now we have learned about another challenge we face. The Royal Osteoporosis Society (ROS) has ...

IT WAS A noisy boat party travelling through north London to Hackney that led to complaints from those living near the river Lea – and to Jordy Nicholas Van Duijvenbode being found guilty of breaching Covid regulations. The water-borne party ...

We wish all our readers Ramadan Mubarak! May we all enjoy a healthy and peaceful month in these unprecedented times.

THE TRUSTEES OF Beani Bazar Cancer and General Hospital (BBCGH), along with prominent members of the British community, tuned in to a Zoom event on 8th April to discuss community support for the hospital. Channel S presenter and Head of ...

JUSTICE HAS finally been done, after three men from Newham were sent to prison for committing rape and robbery – in the Hackney home of their two female victims. It was around 11pm on 12th June 2019 when three men ...

MANORFIELD Primary School has been supporting its pupils and their families throughout the second lockdown – and it wants to continue this support for the rest of the year. This is the reason why the annual Big Half-Marathon fundraising run, ...

Shah Yousuf TOWER HAMLETS HOMES has recently “celebrated” reaching two milestones: it has delivered 20,000 hot meals and undertaken 2,000 shopping trips to help support residents restricted by the Covid lockdown. The celebration is of course tinged with regret that ...