LABOUR’S BUDGET, delivered by Chancellor Rachel Reeves but clearly endorsed by Keir Starmer, has divided economists and journalists alike. It’s also divided the three Tower Hamlets MPs. ●Poplar & Limehouse MP Apsana Begum took a balanced view – welcoming some ...

Emdad Rahman Rofiqul Islam BCAc, Freeman of the City of London has been re elected as a Public Governor. The Thirty seven year old community activist is a renowned local community activist and is confirmed to serve a second term ...

HOW MANY times have you walked past youngsters on the street and seen them sharing round those small, silver cannisters of nitrous oxide? Or gone out in the morning and tutted over a pile of empty cannisters left in the ...

Emdad Rahman EAST LONDONER Muhi Mikdad has been awarded the Freedom of The City of London. The honour was presented to him during a ceremony at the Guildhall, London.  Mikdad is an extraordinary community activist and while fulfilling many other ...

IT’S OUT OF the Town Hall and back into the community for newly elected Aspire councillors in Tower Hamlets as, together with party activists, they have been trying to save the D7 bus from the Tory/Labour chop. During lockdown, the ...

Emdad Rahman NHS OFFICIAL Muhammad Shahin Uddin has been awarded the Freedom of The City of London by Alderman Vincent Keaveny, the 693rd Lord Mayor of the City of London, in a ceremony that dates back to Medieval England. The ...

IT IS OFFICIAL: children whose parents or carers smoke are more likely to take up smoking themselves, as teenagers or even in later life. That’s another good reason to start the New Year by stopping smoking. Non-smokers will often describe ...

OVER 200,000 anti-Covid vaccinations were undertaken across the UK over the Christmas break – with Redbridge Town Hall dishing out the highest number of vaccinations of any site in the country. In London, 54,307 vaccinations – including 3,478 first doses ...

IT’S THREE CHEERS for London’s NHS as it announces that a record number of anti-Covid vaccinations have been carried out in the last week. The service has delivered 650 booster/third dose vaccines in a week. The number of booster/third doses ...

EAST LONDONER EMDAD RAHMAN and #bookbikeondon – his social enterprise project –have featured in a national book of hope in recognition of his outstanding volunteering services to the greater community.  One Hundred Reasons To Hope by Danielle Brown MBE is ...