THE EAST LONDON Mosque & London Muslim Centre have confirmed that 1st Ramadan 1439 will be on Thursday 17th May 2018, as agreed by the Co-ordination Committee of Major Islamic Centres and Mosques in London. Tarawih prayers The Tarawih prayers will commence ...

POLICE HAVE praised a group of children for bravely speaking up and helping to ensure that a serial sex offender who targeted children and teenagers was stopped in his tracks – and locked up. The offender is Peter Michael Fisher, ...

WITH RAMADAN only matters of days away, Darul Ummah Mosque is proud to confirm the huffaz who will be leading tarweeh prayers this Ramadan. Sheikh Mansoor Al-Wuajee (Saudi Arabia) Islamic Lawyer Graduated and completed Hifz from Madina Islamic University Sheikh ...

IT WAS AN open and shut case when PC Sarah Medlock, who had been working in the East Area Command Unit (which covers Redbridge, Havering and Barking & Dagenham), appeared before a Metropolitan Police disciplinary hearing. It was alleged that ...

Emdad Rahman The return of the much anticipated Jagannathpur Union Cup saw a number of East London teams compete with their national counterparts for the right to be named annual champions. Jagannathpur is located in Sunamgonj in Sylhet, Bangladesh, and ...

A MAN HAS been sentenced to life imprisonment for attacking a woman in Rectory Road, Hackney. He is Sabir Sharife, 32, who is of no fixed abode but from the Hackney area. The Judge ordered that he should serve a ...

Ismael Rahman Ahead of a weekend of sporting activities, Leftley Sports Club (LSC) arranged for members to participate in a Dementia Friends session. Members of the sports and wellbeing group convened at the Barking Learning Centre to learn about dementia ...

CRIME IN LONDON went up 6.4% last year (April 2016 to March 2017) compared with the year before (April 2017 to March 2018) – that’s from 777,458 to 827,225. The rise happened as the Government cut funding for policing in ...

A MAN who was convicted last month of the manslaughter of Titu Miah in Newham has appeared at the Old Bailey – where he was sentenced to serve 14 years in prison. The killer, Emdadul Islam, 23, had been found ...

THE GOVERNMENT announced on Friday morning that it will respond to the growing need for school places in England and Wales by allowing a limited expansion of grammar schools and faith schools. The Conservative Party has long regarded itself as ...