Jenny Fisher The Barking & Dagenham Volunteering Bureau has hosted a Dementia Friends information session at headquarters to enable dedicated volunteers to become Dementia Friends. Seven volunteers attended the training session led by Emdad Rahman. Joan Brandon from Barking & ...
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Sounds on Sunday (3)
Alleviate that Sunday feeling (done your homework? got clean socks for work tomorrow? will the milk last till morning?) with a fantasy about what it would be like if, instead of conforming to everyone else’s norms, you could rule the ...
Read More »Singh wonder strike ensures home point for Sporting
Sporting Bengal United 1-1 Takeley FC Emdad Rahman Honours were even after 90 minutes as Sporting Bengal United came back from a goal down to level matters in the latest Essex Senior Football League Premier Division clash at Mile End ...
Read More »Fun on Friday (3)
If you’re a little David facing a giant Goliath… just be brave. And bark a lot. [Adverts]
Read More »Biggs silent on employment day
John “two jobs” Biggs has issued no official statement on the Council’s “employment day” held in Bethnal Green last month. He seems to have delegated the commenting to Cllr Joshua Peck, Cabinet Member for Work and Economic Growth, who said: ...
Read More »Twits on Thursday (4)
Hazel Blears first became an MP in the Labour landslide of 1997. She served in Tony Blair’s Government and he also appointed her Labour Party Chair. She served in Gordon Brown’s Government, having stood in the election to find his Deputy Leader – ...
Read More »Liverpool FC European Cup legends to attend Luton tour
Emdad Rahman Luton will be transformed into a footballing hotspot with a whole host of former Liverpool stars set to descend on the town. After selling out in Bristol and Liverpool, this is the third leg of the Match Day Show ...
Read More »Thousands “visit their mosque”
The Muslim Council of Britain (MCB) was delighted to see thousands of people around the UK take part in its “Visit My Mosque” initiative on Sunday, 7th February. This was the second year that the MCB had organised the national ...
Read More »Trouble on Tuesday (2)
Women are causing trouble, making a stir, rocking the boat… against the laws, ideologies and attitudes which try to confine us to being second class citizens. [Adverts]
Read More »Victims of terror remembered on Docklands Bomb anniversary
At one minute past 7pm on Friday, 9th February 1996 a massive boom swirled round the Isle of Dogs – a noise few residents had heard before. Residents felt their blocks sway. Looking out the window, residents saw a swirl ...
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