COUNCILLOR MAIUM MIAH is in the news again as he once more issues a call for the safety of his Canary Wharf Ward constituents to be taken seriously. The Councillor has launched a public petition calling for the Council to ...

Emdad Rahman JANOMONGAL SHOMITHY Bohor Gram UK hosted a Ramadan community Iftar party at the Ensign Youth Club in Wapping. Approximately 250 people attended the popular annual get together in recognition of the charitable activities of the respected collective.  Janomongal Shomithy ...

LONDON HAS returned a swathe of Labour MPs – with all the seats in East London staying red. Bethnal Green & Bow (Tower Hamlets) saw a high turnout by local standards, with Rushanara Ali netting an enormous 42,969 votes. The Tories ...

Many words have been spoken about the terrible events at London Bridge. Here’s a collage of news and quotes from across East London. Police investigations after the attack have focussed on Barking. The first raid came on a flat in ...

CLLR OLIUR RAHMAN entered the political field in Tower Hamlets as long ago as 2004 – since when, he told a press conference on 31st May, he’s been batting for the community. Fellow councillors lined up to give witness that ...

COUNCIL, housing association and private renters joined trade unions, as well as homeless and community campaigns, in Parliament Square on 25th May. Campaigners hoped to encourage political parties and candidates to make housing a major issue in the General Election. ...

THERE’S NO SUCH thing as a free lunch – or, in this General Election, a free breakfast. The funding for the free school breakfast which Theresa May offered the nation will only cover a 25% uptake. Oh dear. The policy ...

CORONER MARY HASSELL has found that if staff at Bow School had administered an emergency EpiPen, there was a “possibility but not a probability” that Nasar may have been saved. The Coroner was speaking at the end of an inquest ...

JIM FITZPATRICK has pledged to help a local campaign which is trying to stop government funding of Tower Hamlets schools being slashed. The outgoing MP, who is Labour’s candidate for Poplar & Limehouse in the coming General Election, was speaking this ...

THE GENERAL ELECTION was a surprise – and it’s bound to lead to a few more surprising utterances and events. Straight out of the stalls is John Woodcock, Labour MP for Barrow and Furness in Cumbria – who seems to ...