THE TRANSPORT FOR LONDON (TfL) “School of excellence pupil-led project award 2017” was handed to the London Islamic School at City Hall last week. The presentation was made by Dr Will Norman, the London Mayor’s Walking & Cycling Commissioner. The ...

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 ...

CLLR RABINA KHAN has outlined her objections to John Biggs’s plan to cram thousands of residential units into the already highly developed south of Tower Hamlets. Cllr Khan’s comments were made in a submission to the Council’s consultation on the ...

Emdad Rahman VOTE FOR Ability Bow in the Aviva Community Fund competition and you could help them win up to £10,000 to work with more disabled people and people with long term health conditions.  The “Join in” project will be ...

THE PRIVATE TAXI FIRM Uber has lost the second round in its battle to avoid paying its drivers the full rate for the job – and the company now intends to appeal to the Court of Appeal and, if necessary, ...

PEDESTRIANS WERE terrified yesterday as a 254 bus appeared to go out of control in Lower Clapton Road, Hackney. The bus drove into the vehicles in front of it, pushing them down the road. The incident happened just after 4.30pm, ...

A MOTORCYCLIST died as a result of a collision with a Ford Transit on Roding Lane South in Ilford. The accident occurred at approximately 9.30am on Friday, 29th September – and the police are appealing for any witnesses to come ...

THE MEDIA have recently been reporting the increase in the “county line” method of dealing drugs, whereby young people from the inner cities are used to courier drugs out to county towns so that urban dealers can run the supply ...

THE ANNUAL INFLATION rate, as measured by Consumer Prices Index (CPI), crept up to 3% in September – taking the rate up to a level not seen since April 2012, when the Tory-led Coalition Government was just getting into its ...

ARE appealing for witnesses after a collision between a motorbike and a pedestrian outside the Royal London Hospital left three people injured – one critically. The collision took place just after 1am on Thursday, 12th October, on Whitechapel Road. The ...