Emdad Rahman The Speaker of Tower Hamlets Councillor Khales Ahmed Ahmed recognised the outstanding commitment and services of a community activist who has been at the forefront of community engagement for the last twenty years. Musleh Ahmed’s community activism was ...

Emdad Rahman Osmaninagar celebrated their triumph in the Greater Sylhet Upazila Cup with style, as squad members, officials, volunteers and representatives from other Upazila teams joined the 2015 and 2016 champions on an open top bus tour of Tower Hamlets. ...

David “Baron” Blunkett is up to something – and he’s up to it with Brenda “Baroness” Dean. It could be not so much another outing for the Barron Knights as a case of the Barren Fights – but it could ...

The Alzheimer’s Society is planning to reach out to black and minority ethnic schoolchildren in Tower Hamlets to raise awareness of dementia and help pupils learn more about the condition. The charity has won funding from Tower Hamlets Clinical Commissioning ...

Many eyebrows were raised when Labour’s John Biggs became mayor of Tower Hamlets but then refused to resign as a member of the London Assembly. Each position was a full-time job, and holding two full time jobs at the same ...

Seven year old Sangeeta Digpal has won Tesco’s Ramadan poster competition. Along with hundreds of other entrants from across the country Sangeeta designed a poster showing what Ramadan means to her – and she emerged as the national winner. Sangeeta’s ...

Three honours winged their way to Tower Hamlets as the Queen issued her Birthday Honours List. The first two awards recognise work in the local public sector – by two women who work with the borough’s young people. Deborah Weston, Director ...

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 ...

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 ...