Metropolitan Police Service crime figures up to the end of March 2014 show that incidents classed as “Islamophobic crime” have nearly tripled, from 17 to 50 individual incidents. The increase coincides with the period of time in which Labour and ...

The BBC’s Panorama programme is in the news again. The allegations aired during the programme were not new: the “documentary” referred to Council grants made several months ago.  Viewers saw former Labour Leader Cllr Josh Peck say that he was “pretty ...

Of the 50,000 women and 400 men diagnosed with breast cancer each year in the UK, an unknown number will go on to develop secondary breast cancer – cancer that has spread beyond the breast or armpit to other parts ...

The elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, joined with construction workers and trade unionists to take part in International Workers Memorial Day on Monday, 28th April. The Mayor laid a wreath at the Building Worker statue in Tower Hill ...

Next month, the council will call on new traders and budding entrepreneurs to try out a market stall for just £10 per day as part of the Love Your Local Market fortnight, which runs from 14-28th May. Led by 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 ...

Tickets have just gone on sale today for a new, musical version of David Baddiel’s hit comedy movie The Infidel, which Baddiel has himself adapted for the theatre. The production has been made possible by the success of a Kickstarter ...

Harry Palmer looks at the aftermath of the Panorama programme. The Metropolitan police have found no credible evidence of fraud in John Ware’s Panorama dossier on Lutfur Rahman. They have made it quite clear that if the audit currently being ...

BBL Play-Off Quarter Final (1st Leg) London Lions 78-92 Worcester Wolves London Lions 78 (14,39,66) (Brown 23, Lawson 14, Martin 13) Worcester Wolves 92 (36,49,75) (Taylor 22, Owumi 16, Creekmore 14) Emdad Rahman: Zaire Taylor was in brutal mode as ...

Scintilla CC vs Redbridge Park CC Venue: London Marathon Playing Fields, Fairlop, London IG6 3HZ   Emdad Rahman: Scintilla CC enjoyed a blistering start to the 2014 cricket season as they crushed Redbridge Park CC with a 9-wicket demolition in ...