Emdad Rahman SPORTING GREEN have won the Under 12s Tower Hamlets summer league after an eagerly contested title decider. In doing so, the Wapping team has completed the winter and summer league double – an outstanding achievement for the new ...

HUNDRED people took part in a silent march around Grenfell Tower yesterday – to remind the public that, two months after the fire, there remains much to be done and many questions still need answers. Residents came as they were ...

COUNCILLORS and residents united in questioning new plans from John Bigg to charge more for parking in Tower Hamlets, is it possible that Labour Councillor Khales Uddin Ahmed has come to the rescue? The following letter has been circulating on ...

INDEPENDENT Councillor Ohid Ahmed launched a petition in response to John Biggs’s sham consultation on parking in Bow and Mile End – and within hours over 3,000 people had signed it. The petition calls on Tower Hamlets Mayor to stop ...

Cllr RABINA KHAN has condemned as “misleading and disingenuous” a consultation which Tower Hamlets Mayor John Bigg has launched on parking in the east of the Borough. Biggs has made no formal statement about why parking should change in the ...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is facing growing criticism over his failure to condemn immediately the racist, fascist and white supremacist groups which went to Charlottesville to cause trouble over the weekend. Too little, too late, he has now made a ...

TWO LABOUR Shadow Ministers issued a joint statement on 12th August to mark International Youth Day. Cat Smith, Shadow Minister for Voter Engagement and Youth Affairs, and Kate Osamor, Shadow International Development Secretary, spoke up for the rights of young people – ...

Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury “One won’t hurt” – that’s the way social smokers put it. Just 15.5% of the UK population smokes, yet 24% smoke “socially”. A study has revealed that over a quarter of Brits smoke recreationally, while the majority state ...

THE CRACKS ARE beginning to widen as UKIP enters yet another leadership contest. The Party did very badly in the General Election – leading to the resignation of the then Leader Paul Nuttal. The process of finding his successor may ...

Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury reviews India on Film: 1899-1947, Treasures from the BFI National Archive. THE BRITISH Film Institute, in partnership with British Council, has released India on Film: 1899-1947, Treasures from the BFI National Archive, providing viewers in the UK and across India with access to an unparalleled ...