WE ARE ALL used to the diversity in East London. There’s people from at least four corners of the world – and they’ve all brought their cuisine with them. Walking through the busy streets of our home borough, we have ...

Emdad Rahman LONDON ISLAMIC SCHOOL, a Muslim Secondary school for boys in Tower Hamlets, has been awarded the Team London Environment and Healthy Living Award 2017 for outstanding contribution to volunteering. The award was made at a gala conference at ...

Emdad Rahman JUDAN ALI, the Manager and Head Coach for the Indonesian National Army Football Team, is lending his extensive footballing knowledge to help fire a group of 18 year olds to greater success. In his earlier days Ali was ...

Wildfyre reviews The Shining, which can be seen in cinemas on Hallowe’en. Adaptations and reboots of Stephen King’s work are popular right now, what with The Dark Tower, It, and Gerald’s Game recently released and with many others in development. Plus, with it being Hallowe’en it only ...

Muhammad Talha THE LEYTON ORIENT TRUST – in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society, Dementia Action Alliance, Fans for Diversity and Kick It Out – hosted a Mental Health Awareness Day at Brisbane Road on the day of Orient’s home game ...

COURT OF APPEAL has ruled that the Al-Hijrah school in Birmingham was guilty of sex discrimination when it exercised a policy of segregating boy and girl pupils. The Court ruled that the policy left girls “unprepared for life in modern ...

WHAT DO YOU order when you go to an Indian restaurant? A nice, mild korma? A traditional Biryani? A challenging Prawn Phall? Whatever your go-to meal, none of us will ask for a lightly steamed cockroach on the side – ...

Emdad Rahman MEMBERS AND supporters of community gym Ability Bow united with thousands of fellow participants to take part in Parallel London, a fully accessible fun run and free family festival at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.  A day of ...

CANARY WHARF Councillor Maium Miah has been trying to unravel Council bureaucracy and get to the bottom of how the Council decides where it is going to install outdoor gyms. Now he’s asked the public to help him have a ...

IN AN EXTRAORDINARY move, Mayor John Biggs has found £3 million to fund superficial cosmetic improvements to “refresh” the cosmetic appearance of parts of Tower Hamlets – though he can’t find cash for the highly successful Youth Sports Foundation, Children’s ...