Tickets are still available for the opening night performance of ELF The Musical at the Dominion Theatre on Thursday 5th November. The show, starring Kimberley Walsh and Ben Forster, will run for ten weeks, with proceeds from the opening night ...

Emdad Rahman For one day only Mollie Hughes held a series of Summit Talks on the viewing platform of Up at The 02, 52m above ground level. Harnesses and carabiner clips are no stranger to Mollie who, in 2012 and ...

For years Dragon’s Den has been the only business funding programme on TV – but now Dave TV is launching a rival. “The Money Pit” starts on 29th October – and the second episode on 5th November will feature Andii ...

The Arts Council England has announced that it will be funding Creative Barking and Dagenham for a further three years. The funding comes through the national Creative People and Places Programme. Creative Barking and Dagenham will now go ahead and ...

As Halloween approaches, there’s a rush of authors and playwrights and film-makers trying to provide a scary product to suit the season. Hodder and Stoughton, publishers of Stephen King’s new collection of short stories, The Bazaar Of Bad Dreams, commissioned ...

The Bangla Mirror Group, publishers of the British Bangladeshi Who’s Who publication, held a press conference on Thursday, 22nd October at the London Muslim Centre to announce the launch of the much anticipated 2015 publication. The official launch of the ...

The Proud Archivist (PA) is a multi-purpose venue on the western fringe of East London but very reachable from our area. As well as serving as a café and bar, it also provides a gallery and a venue for music ...

Emdad Rahman reports that local grassroots charity Neighbours in Poplar (NiP) is promoting a number of events during Inter Faith Week, which runs from 16th-22nd November. •On Tuesday, 17th November, from 6pm-7.30pm, there will be a Three Creeds Evening at Our ...

It’s smiles all round down at the East London Genes & Health study, the world’s largest community based genetics study. The project is celebrating its first milestone – 4,000 local participants have now taken part! The research project has also ...

Pumpkin tends to be associated with Halloween but it’s a really wonderful ingredient to enjoy in a whole host of dishes. The beauty of most pumpkin and squash is that you can use every single part, from the outer rind ...