Mayor’s TB Ambassador visits The Whitechapel Mission Emdad Rahman British actress Emma Thompson visited the Whitechapel Mission and called on Londoners to get tested for TB as part of a campaign to raise awareness of the disease, which is more prevalent ...
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David Bowie dies; music of a legend lives on
The death has been announced of David Bowie, one of the giants of music who first found fame in the 1970s. It has been revealed that he had been living with cancer for 18 months. The shock is all the ...
Read More »Celtic’s Smiler – the Neilly Mochan story
Emdad Rahman Smiler Mochan is a Celtic legend whose name doesn’t crop up as much as it needs to, but I have seen his portrait hanging at Celtic Park. Celtic Football Club is quite simply the stuff dreams are made ...
Read More »Rose Hamid: sister, you nailed it!
“One guy was saying, ‘Get out! Do you have a bomb?’ And I said, ‘No – do you have a bomb?’” In the footsteps of the First Lady of Civil Rights Rosa Parks now walks another Rose – Rose Hamid, ...
Read More »Fun on Friday (1)
Relax, admire… and count the cats. Warning: there is no correct answer.
Read More »Need some help with health?
If you are one of the thousands who have made New Year’s Resolutions about your health – but you don’t want to be one of the thousands who have broken them by the end of January – here’s some information ...
Read More »Fitoor’s coming in February
As Valentine’s Day heaves into sight, get ready for a major love story with this February release! Abhishek Kapoor’s Fitoor – starring Aditya Roy Kapur, Katrina Kaif and Tabu – is out next month, but already the first track from ...
Read More »Twits on Thursday (1)
As many punters dismiss Donald Trump’s chances of getting to the White House because of his lack of political sophistication, here’s evidence of just how little you need to know to be a US President at war (and evidence of just ...
Read More »Council remembers those who lost their lives in the Holocaust
Tower Hamlets Council will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January with a number of events so that residents can remember the six million people who lost their lives during the Holocaust years and the millions of others who ...
Read More »From real life to reel life!
Audiences awaiting the release of Airlift, starring Akshay Kumar and Nimrat Kaur, on 22nd January, have been able to whet their appetites with the official trailer – which clocked up three million views in its first 24 hours online. Airlift ...
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