YIKES! Do you remember the warnings in recent years about not taking too many antibiotics (especially for conditions they cannot cure)? The predicted consequences are here – and London is coming off worst. Antibiotics were a miracle drug. They killed ...

ALDI HAS recalled Let’s Party Vegetable Bao Buns. The product contains meat (duck) and sesame – but neither ingredient is mentioned on the product label. No vegetarian would want to take a bit of what they thought was a tasty ...

WHAT’S THE biggest moan on the Isle of Dogs? Strictly speaking, we don’t know – we haven’t done a proper survey. But we do know that lots of people are concerned, worried and annoyed by the “boy racer” phenomenon. Young ...

We spoke to Deputy Mayor Cllr Maium Talukdar, Cabinet Member for Education, Youth and Lifelong Learning and councillor for Canary Wharf ward about the women’s takeover of the Tiller Road Be Well Centre. “Lutfur Rahman promised,” said Cllr Talukdar, “and ...

GAZA, PALESTINE: we have not forgotten, and we are still taking action to support you! One of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign’s (PCS’s) key campaigns is to persuade Barclays Bank to stop funding the Israeli state’s genocidal attack on the people ...

THESE QMW students look happy enough, tinkering about with bits of kit and computers – but they are taking part in projects that could help locals in Tower Hamlets as well as giving a lifeline to populations around the world. ...

CRICKET IS one of the most popular sports in the UK – and Tower Hamlets is the London Borough where that popularity is growing the fastest. It’s welcome news, then, that the Council is creating a natural turf pitch in ...

THE PALESTINIAN struggle for freedom is being celebrated at the Rich Mix Centre in Tower Hamlets with an exhibition and a series of performances running through November. The series of events will be launched formally at the Rich Mix centre ...

THE WORLD seems to be full of random refugees. They fled persecution, they suffered a natural disaster, they were attacked in a confict not of their making… There’s many reasons why people have found themselves labelled as “refugee”. There is, ...

THE 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP) is taking place in oil-rich Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, under the slogan “In Solidarity for a Green World”. There’s an even larger climate change project happening on the other side of the world ...