Emdad Rahman AFTER THEY LIFTED the Sonali Otith Masters Vets Trophy for the second time, Weavers FC received an unexpected invitation from the city of Limerick, in Ireland’s County Limerick. The city, which is populated by approximately 190,000, invited Weavers ...

Muhammad Ismael GREATER LAMAKHAZI FC have won the 2019 Sonali Othith Community Cup. Abdul Khaher’s side beat player-manager Emdad Rahman’s Bancroft FC 1-0 in the final, with a goal from Alanoor Chowdhury. Both teams navigated competitive fixtures to reach the ...

WHAT WERE WE listening to 50 years ago? Here’s a short series on the hits of 1969 – two years after the Summer of Love, the year that humans landed on our moon, the last year of the 1960s. The ...

Muhammad Ismael EKOTA CRICKET ACADEMY celebrated the completion of the summer All Stars Cricket Programme with an awards night for young participants and their parents. A competitive game finished off with a prize giving ceremony and healthy snacks for all. ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council will be holding a jobs fair on Thursday, 29th August. The event takes place from 10am-3pm at the Whitechapel Idea Store, 321 Whitechapel Road, E1 1BU. The event will offer residents opportunities to find out about local ...

ONCE AGAIN, Tower Hamlets veteran politician Helal Abbas Uddin has seen the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) take a decision which affects his political future. But this time, rather than being in his favour, the NEC has dashed his ...

“I’M NOT LISTENING” is the message Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs sent to residents and councillors last Friday, 16th August. Just two days after councillors on the Overview & Scrutiny Committee (O&S) asked him to reconsider his decision to ...

A YOUNG, WHITE Norwegian citizen has been charged with murder in the aftermath of a shooting incident at the Al-Noor Islamic Centre in the town of Baerum, on the outskirts of the capital, Oslo. No one was killed when the ...

Emdad Rahman IN ORDER TO address the startling gang culture mentality and knife crime issues affecting communities, the Hedgecock Community Centre in Barking, in partnership with the Barking Youth Link, hosted a successful ‘United Against Knife Crime’ football tournament. The ...

IS JOHN BIGGS guilty of double standards? This is the question local activists are asking after Tower Hamlets Council refused to allow The Big Ride for Palestine to end a charity bike ride in a public park as it may ...