Emdad Rahman Newark Youth London has celebrated another great year by delivering a successful awards event at Mulberry School, East London. Newark Youth London was formed in 1984 by a group of young people aged between 9-12 years. The group ...
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Get ready for Rebels in Love
Actors Tiger Shroff and Shraddha Kapoor have just finished shooting Sajid Nadaidwala’s forthcoming production Baaghi: Rebels in Love. It’s the first time the two have worked together. Tiger had an action packed shoot, as he was taking on the lion’s ...
Read More »Island Dads football unites the community
Emdad Rahman The Island Dads Club IDC is a voluntary group based on the Isle of Dogs which encourages local fathers to participate in regular sporting activities. Football is a regular activity for them, and it sees members from all ...
Read More »Get ready to Vitality-Run Hackney
What better way to let off steam the weekend after May’s election than to go for a run – and what better way to go for a run than to join thousands of other people doing the same thing? Fortunately ...
Read More »Cash-starved NHS struggles with targets
As the junior hospital doctors started their second day of strike action, new figures were released which showed that the Government’s strategy of starving the NHS of money are having an effect on patient treatment. The NHS has a target ...
Read More »Twits on Thursday (6)
The pre-Corbyn Labour Party came in for a great deal of public criticism during the various investigations of MPs’ expenses. Here’s Jacqui Smith MP, former Home Secretary, digging away at that hole in response to questions from a member of ...
Read More »Boris sends out a search party
In the old days, when you had a festival or a fun-day, your Council told you when and where it was and what was going on and you went their and did it. Now, under Boris Johnson’s free-market London, you ...
Read More »Government braced for 2-day doctors’ strike
At 8am today, junior hospital doctors began a 48-hour strike – wondering whether it would be third time lucky as they attempt to defeat government attempts to change their contracts. Doctors had already staged two one-day strikes, after negotiations between ...
Read More »This is most un-Ford-tunate
There was traditional East End rebellion in the air on Saturday, as over 100 residents of Old Ford Housing Association gathered at St Paul’s Church in St Stephen’s Road to ask what had gone wrong with their housing association. As ...
Read More »Worries on Wednesday (4)
A truly breathtaking clip of two figures addressing the worrying housing crisis. John Redwood MP is a truly chilling master of Tory doublespeak, while Ken Loach adopts the Corbyn approach of reasoned argument tinged with empathy and a little impatience. ...
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