Former Sports Minister Richard Caborn has admitted that the performance of the sports element of the Olympic legacy is “disappointing”. London’s Olympic bid had promised to “inspire a generation” to get active. However, figures show that the number playing sport ...

Top Labour figures today carried on their drive to put across to the electorate good reasons for voting “remain” in next week’s referendum. Deputy Leader Tom Watson was first in the queue, stressing the potential for creating jobs that comes ...

When Judge Richard Hawkins sentenced 17 year old Ian Devlin to nine years imprisonment for the racist manslaughter of Shiblu Rahman, he took the unusual step of allowing the killer to be named, even though he was under 18, saying ...

Owen Jones was reviewing the papers on Sky News  last night. So was Julia Hartley-Brewer (who began her journalistic career on the East London Advertiser before moving to the Evening Standard and the Express). Owen had already tweeted his amazement ...

Labour MP Jim Fitzpatrick chose Carers Week 2016 to pledge his support for Carer Friendly Communities in his constituency, Poplar and Limehouse (in Tower Hamlets). Jim pointed out that “there are 6.5 million people in the UK who care for ...

We have a fantastic National Health Service which helps ill people get better. It is underfunded. We also have a Public Health Service, run by Councils, which helps people not get ill in the first place. That is also underfunded ...

Muhammad Ismael London Bangla writer Emdad Rahman has been rewarded for his voluntary work with recognition from the Barking & Dagenham Volunteer Bureau as part of The Big Celebration – Volunteers’ Week 2016. Volunteers’ Week is an annual celebration of the fantastic ...

Shampan Restaurant Limited, the company which runs the Shampan restaurant on Brick Lane, has been fined £3,757.50 – and one of its directors, Rukeya Haque, has been fined £1,220. The penalties arise out of a charge of “exposing and selling ...

John “one job” Biggs is now free from commitments to City Hall and is now holding down only one job – running Tower Hamlets. But he’s clearly still a busy man. On 1st June, a notice went up on Tower ...

NHS England has announced that it is to invest £2 million to reduce inequalities at work. Part of the money will pay for 75 “champions” to help NHS Trusts tackle racism. The news comes as a new report from the ...