If a firefighter comes to help you in an emergency, you want that firefighter to be fit enough to do the job. In Tower Hamlets especially, firefighters often have to cope with running up stairs to reach a mechanism to ...

There’s a host of events at the Globe Theatre this summer to keep the whole family entertained. For too many of us, the term “Shakespeare” conjures up memories of dusty text books with lines of verse which, though it seemed ...

Anaesthetists at Barts Health are involved in a national drive to ensure the very best standards of trauma care are available at trauma centres across the NHS. The Major Trauma Centre at The Royal London Hospital has an international reputation for ...

General practice cannot reached its full potential in the face of continuing under-investment in the profession, the cutting of MPIG funding, the problems recruiting and retaining GPs and the lack of investment in premises, GP leaders have warned. Backing a ...

“Seeing Years & Years live last year was probably the best surprise of 2013. Young Olly Alexander has the holy fire in his hands: a soulful voice with a crazy R’n’B vibe, which enables him to be simultaneously emotional and ...

Rayhan Ahmed (22), from Jubilee Street in Stepney, the only son in his family, has drowned while on holiday with friends in the Alanya district of Turkey. The friends had taken a trip into the forest and were near the ...

“Seeing Years & Years live last year was probably the best surprise of 2013. Young Olly Alexander has the holy fire in his hands: a soulful voice with a crazy R’n’B vibe, which enables him to be simultaneously emotional and ...

Hanan Abdel-Khalek previews this year’s music festival. Field Day festival, founded by Tom Baker (Eat Your Own Ears) and Marcus Weedon, has been expanding every year since 2007 – and has been unstoppable every since, with its eighth annual event ...

On 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister (now Sir Roger Bannister) ran the first four minute mile. In March 2012, Emdad Rahman interviewed Sir Roger. We reprint the interview today to pay tribute to Sir Roger’s achievement, sixty years ago. Emdad ...

“Seeing Years & Years live last year was probably the best surprise of 2013. Young Olly Alexander has the holy fire in his hands: a soulful voice with a crazy R’n’B vibe, which enables him to be simultaneously emotional and ...