WE OPEN THE new autumn season of The Thames Today with a look at a murky stretch of water just north of Coldharbour, E14, in a photo taken yesterday, 1st October. Here a narrow inlet feeds water from the main ...

Emdad Rahman A GROUP OF East Londoners have returned to the UK after completing an aid deployment to visit Bosnia and meet with local families. The group spent four days in Sarajevo, where their activities included providing cows to needy ...

Emdad Rahman EASTEND HOMES AND its Holland Estate Estate Management Board (EMB) arranged and delivered a community event on the Holland estate to celebrate the Tower Hamlets Play Street event and to also mark the official opening of the recently ...

Sarajevo blog: Day 4 Emdad Rahman WE TOOK PART in a seminar with local youth leaders today, and each member of our delegation was invited to talk of their experience and advise the hosts on collaborative social care projects to ...

Sarajevo blog: Day 3 Emdad Rahman TODAY WE MET three families who have benefitted from receiving cows which have greatly helped them generate an income to support themselves. We were welcomed with open arms at each locality and afforded the ...

WHAT WERE WE listening to 50 years ago? Here’s a short series on the hits of 1969 – two years after the Summer of Love, the year that humans landed on our moon, the last year of the 1960s. Bobbie ...

Sarajevo blog: Day 2 Emdad Rahman AN EARLY START to a productive day began with Fajr prayers at Ferhadija Masjid. With a strong and steaming hot Bosanska Kafa we were set for the day ahead, which involved meetings with various ...

A YOUNG HACKNEY man who groomed young women over social media and then committed sexual offences against them has been sent to jail for seven and a half years. He will also be on the sex offenders register for life. ...

Sarajevo blog: Day 1 Emdad Rahman WE ARE WITH the Bosnia Trust this weekend and will be spending the next few days delivering and surveying projects which we are supporting. We have spent Thursday travelling to our destination after a ...

Emdad Rahman HUNDREDS OF runners from near and far took part in the annual Muslim Charity Run (MCR) at Victoria Park which was held to raise money for charitable causes. The 5km endurance test organised by the East London Mosque ...