The inaugural British Bangladesh Fashion Week (BBFW) will take place between 8th and 13th October 2012.  The week will celebrate and promote Bangladeshi fashion arts and culture and will champion the relationship between the UKand Bangladesh. It will showcase the ...

Emdad Rahman interviews Yeoman Warder Clive Towell. Clive Towell, 44, lives with his partner Sheena Lott and their two daughters – Sophie, 14, and Mollie, 12.  Clive told me, “I am from Cheltenham Gloucester but have been in the Army ...

Emdad Rahman:  It’s access all areas for the silvery marmosets at ZSL Whipsnade Zoo as they’ve become the latest animals allowed to roam freely around the park.  Up until now the close-knit family of seven, which includes Choc and Chip ...

Stalwart peace campaigner Len Aldis visited Hanoi, Vietnam, in early May to speak at a Medical University on Agent Orange and the consequences for Vietnam.  While he was there he was able to contact the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU).  Shortly ...

In a Borough where too many residents live in fuel poverty, Mayor Rahman is set to launch an energy co-op which will allow residents to join together and use their buying power to reduce their energy tariffs. Fuel poverty is ...

East LondonNews: With most households feeling the financial pinch, you could be forgiven for assuming that spending on the Jubilee celebrations and paraphernalia would have been relatively restrained.  No so, according to Access Self Storage, which estimates that Britons will ...

The TUC has warned that the Beecroft proposals would create “more than three million second-class citizens at work”. This is the number of people working in small companies with fewer than 10 staff who will be turned into second-class citizens ...

Missiles and an absent Ministry were the cause of residents' agitation at a public meeting held in Bow Methodist Church

You can’t have Wimbledon without strawberries and cream. Every year during the event, people munch their way through roughly 28,000kg of juicy English strawberries. Even if you don’t have tickets to the tennis, you can still enjoy a taste of ...

Arhag Housing Association formally launched their new housing development, Newman Court (Bow Baptist Church), on Wednesday 23rd May 2012. The new scheme has helped to house a large number of families (from a refugee and migrant background) who were living ...