APSANA BEGUM, MP for Poplar & Limehouse, has today been found not guilty of three counts of making dishonest applications for council housing to Tower Hamlets Council. Rumours that Apsana Begum was guilty of fraud began circulating in Tower Hamlets ...

ANOTHER CHAPTER in the long running dispute between cab service Uber and the British state ended today, as the Supreme Court ruled that Uber drivers – at least, the two who brought the test case – are workers. The saga ...

IT TAKES FLAIR and imagination to cover the curry industry during a pandemic, as caterers respond to lockdown after lockdown – all with ever changing restriction. However, Channel S reporter Mohammed Jubair has risen to the challenge – and he ...

IT’S A FIRST for the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) – which has just elected its first woman leader. She is Zara Mohammed. Also contesting the election was Ajmal Masroor, who was the runner up. The MCB is an umbrella ...

LEVELS OF infection with Covid remain high across London, according to Public Health England. The organisation has warned today (Friday, 15th January) that the public must observe the letter and the spirit of lockdown to try to bring the virus ...

POLICE HAVE appealed to the public to help them identify and find a man caught in a shop’s CCTV footage. They want to speak to him in connection with an allegation of attempted rape. The allegation arises from an incident ...

IT WAS life imprisonment for Aman Vyas, 36, sentenced at last for a series of assaults and rapes and, finally, murder. It took a painstaking police operation that went on for over a decade to bring him to justice. Vyas ...

TWO TEENS, both 16, were on trial at the Old Bailey in connection with the murder of Baptista Adjei in Stratford last October. On Tuesday this week, one was found guilty of murder and wounding. The other was found not ...

THROUGHOUT the month of July, our “thought for the day” spot featured individual Tower Hamlets Councillors – recording something they have said and giving their apparent position on the Tower Rewards dispute with the Council workforce. Now the month is ...

THE COURT OF APPEAL has today ruled that Shamima Begum should be permitted to return to the UK to contest the UK Government’s decision to revoke her British citizenship. The Government has responded to today’s Court of Appeal decision by ...