By Emdad Rahman History and heritage took centre stage in East London as the Kakardia Teradal Alipur Welfare Trust UK unveiled its landmark publication, Phinick-1. The book, a meticulous chronicle of 400 years of Kakardia village’s history and traditions, was ...

THE STARMER Government is planning to reduce public expenditure by cutting welfare benefits and restricting the number of people who can apply or them. This has come as a surprise to quite a number of Labour MPs, and some members, ...

Emdad Rahman The Tara Tari restaurant hosted the newly formed Thames Titans Cricket Club, and with it, a newly formed badminton club set to host both local and national tournaments. Under the rallying ethos One Team, One Dream!, the dual sport ...

In a major success for residents, the Newham scrutiny committee have played a crucial role in challenging and ultimately reducing proposed changes to visitor parking permit charges in Newham. Behind the scenes, councillors on the Scrutiny committee worked tirelessly to ...

Maruf Ahmed WHO WANTS to be frozen all year? The Tower Hamlets Be Well centres do! The Council has frozen the fees at all its Be Well Centres for the next financial year (2025-26). Most boroughs have sports and/or leisure ...

IT IS several years since the NHS decided to modernise the Royal London Hospital – triggering a wholesale redevelopment of the surrounding part of Whitechapel. But will the development bring improvements to the area? The opportunity to improve Whitechapel wasn’t ...

THE NUMBER OF people in England who were referred to the NHS wheelchair service in 2024 is roughly the same as the number of people who live in Northampton. What is the NHS wheelchair service? If you need a mobility ...

Maruf Ahmed THE SLAVE TRADE was running across the Atlantic – but in Tower Hamlets, between 1567 and 1802, Black people were finding refuge and telling their stories. Now a new exhibition tells their stories. Six local residents have dug ...

Muhammad Talha Shoreditch, London – Tower Hamlets Council took a proactive step in enhancing the aesthetic appeal and safety of Braithwaite Street in Brick Lane with a graffiti clean up event on Wednesday, 26th February. The initiative brought together the ...

POLICE are calling for any witnesses to come forward after a young man was fatally stabbed in Hackney earlier this week. The victim has been named as Jason Junior Romeo, who was just 20 year old. The stabbing took place ...