Trade union memberships have generally fallen over the past 30 years around the world. In Britain it has dropped from 44% to 15%. Less than a fifth of workers in the OECD belong to unions. however there has been an ...

King Edward VII Memorial Park was created in 1910 after the Government decided

Tower Hamlets Homes Decent Homes programme in Lister and Pauline Houses has been riddled with delays, multiple changes of sub-contractors

A Christian church minister and Muslim Imam are visiting Haiti, 12 months after the devastating earthquake

Ashraf Miah, aged 38, of Joseph Street, Bow E3, was sentenced to three years and three months imprisonment at Snaresbrook Crown Court

In much of the world Muhammad Yunus is known as the genial pioneer of microcredit and the winner of the 2006 Nobel peace prize. Yet in his native Bangladesh Mr Yunus’s reputation is under attack. His supporters fear that the ...

Police are appealing for information to help find a 62 year old man who is missing from Bow. Mr John Ian Hobson was last seen leaving his home in Bow

Squeezed middle-income earners  are to be hit yet again by the Coalition’s radical reforms of the benefit system, a high-powered analysis found yesterday. The shake-up meant to draw hundreds of thousands of the workless into jobs will penalise middle-income families ...

Winter is a difficult time for the homeless.  It is a time of loneliness and cold, and the celebration of religious festivals offers a timely and appropriate reminder of those who may have fallen on hard times. Months ago I ...

More winter blues on the way as power firms implement their 10% price hikes. Average bills for a couple will go up this winter by around £115 to £1,265 a year. Bills for larger households will increase from an average ...