Emdad Rahman Local Tower Hamlets boy Siddikuzzaman Munna (Saddik), 17, who was born in London and has Bangladeshi parents, has fulfilled a life time dream and signed for a professional football club. He signed a one year contract for a ...

DANIEL FREDERICK, 34, was an innocent man who lived in Hackney. His girlfriend was pregnant, and on 8th January this year he went to the hospital with her before heading home to meet up with a friend – the two ...

Emdad Rahman BOHORGRAM JONOMONGAL SHOMITHY, one of Sylhet’s oldest Welfare Associations, has celebrated its 52-year anniversary. The programme was hosted by Treasurer Koyes Ahmed Ruhal in the presence of Baroness Pola Uddin and President Jobrul Islam. Guest speaker Baroness Uddin ...

JAIL SENTENCES OF 13 years and 11 years were handed down to two young men from Tower Hamlets at Snaresbrook Crown Court last month after they were found guilty of rape and related charges at a hearing in September. The ...

Emdad Rahman EAST LONDON BUS DRIVERS have climbed Mount Snowdon in aid of Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The whole group consisted of bus drivers from the Arriva bus garage depot in Ash Grove – and their collective efforts raised £3,000. ...

THE FAMILY trusted Hafiz Azizur Rehman Pirzada, 76, of Laughton Road, Northolt, when they appointed him to teach their two girls about the Quran. He did not live up to that trust – and now, belatedly, he will pay the ...

Emdad Rahman BISHWANATH UNITED picked up a Highly Commended Award at the London Asian Business Awards at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington. The winners of the Community Award were the David Palfreman (Asian People’s Disability Alliance). Other nominees included London ...

HE WAS DESCRIBED as the ringleader of an acid attack at a shop in Mare Street Hackney – and last month Peter Brown, 29, of Hope Avenue, Stanford-Le-Hope, Essex, was sentenced to ten years in prison for his crimes. The ...

Emdad Rahman A GROUP OF volunteers from the Human Relief Foundation (HRF) travelled to Bangladesh over half-term to deliver aid.  Volunteers from the Whitechapel branch visited the Rohingya Camp in Cox Bazar, followed by three days in Sylhet where they ...

A COLD-HEARTED woman who set her former lover up to be killed by another man – and then filmed the fatal attack and posted it on social media – has been handed a substantial prison sentence. Fatima Khan, 21, of ...