Selina Jahan came to the UK some seven years ago, from the Bagbari district of Sylhet, Bangladesh. She came with her husband, Shahin Ahmed, and their children. Initially the family joined her father in Tower Hamlets, but they then decided ...

The five Labour Party members who began a legal action against the Labour Party over their election procedures have decided not to appeal to the Supreme Court. They have issued a statement confirming that the costs of further legal action ...

Owen Smith must be running out of options. He is still standing in the Labour Party leadership contest, but more and more members, supporters and commentators are asking why. Where has it all gone wrong for him? Let’s remind ourselves ...

Taj Accountants recently opened a new office in Valence Road, in the East London Borough of Tower Hamlets. Paul Scully MP, the Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on the Curry Industry, came to inaugurate the office. After the ribbon ...

There are few women cycling in Tower Hamlets – but a new project is set to change all that in the coming months. The Royal Foundation of St. Katharine has been awarded a TfL Cycling Grant, which will fund a ...

She didn’t quote St Francis of Assisi, but in every other way Theresa May sounded – as she set the scene for her premiership – like Margaret Thatcher. It wasn’t the obvious comparison – of the second woman Prime Minister ...

Emdad Rahman A host of community activists joined The Gift of Knowledge (GOK) at Aldgate Underground Station to remember the victims of 7/7 as East London fell silent on the eleventh anniversary of the “7/7” attacks in London. Roses were handed ...

Muhammad Ismael Rahman In celebration of the 30th Anniversary of the Limehouse Festival, the Limehouse Community Forum (LCF) teamed up with Franklyn James, Limehouse Marina Elite and Online Inventories to hold the inaugural LIMEfest Almost 5k Fun Run – a ...

Not for the first time, Margaret Hodge has opened her mouth and put her foot in it. The woman who was entirely perplexed by the rise of the BNP in her own constituency turns out to be equally confused about ...

Tower Hamlets residents are to fall victim to even more Tory austerity sanctioned by Labour Mayor John Biggs, this time as he passes on 100% of government cuts to health services. In a low profile Public Health mini-budget, Mayor Biggs ...