A POLICE CONSTABLE based in Hackney has been sentenced by Westminster Magistrates’ Court to carry out 200 hours of unpaid community service. The sentence follows his conviction for assault by beating at Hendon Magistrates’ Court on 9th February. PC Kashif ...

REFUGEES who are surviving precariously in refugee areas in Bangladesh are facing further difficulties with the coming of the monsoon season – and many may have to flee yet again. Many of the latest refugees are surviving in makeshift camps ...

PRIME MINISTER Theresa May has admitted that there is a problem with funding higher education in the UK. She has decisively announced that she is going to think about it for a year or so and wonder what to do. ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE is working with the Islam Channel to debate the issue of organ donation – because the UK Government is considering introducing legislation to change the way that donation is allowed in the UK. At present, individuals ...

THE CHIPS WERE DOWN at Kentucky Friend Chicken (KFC) outlets across the UK yesterday – but it wasn’t the fault of their potatoes. Over 450 KFC outlets were closed for business as they couldn’t get any chicken. Thousands of disgruntled ...

POLICE ARE appealing to the public for help in finding Tiana Lyn, who is just 14 years old. Tiana, who is from Havering, has been missing since 11.30am on Friday, 16th February. Tiana is described as black and of slim ...

TWO SEVENTEEN year old males have been arrested and charged with the murder of fellow 17 year old Lord Promise Nkenda in Canning Town on Valentine’s Day. The arrests took place on Saturday and the two teens were due to ...

A LOUND “BANG” was heard on a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) train just after 11am this morning, 19th February. Worried commuters thought it sounded like a bomb had gone off and rushed to evacuate the train at Pontoon Dock station. ...

Emdad Rahman YOUNG ARTISTS FROM Lansbury Lawrence Primary School in Poplar added a touch of vibrancy and colour to the locality as their architectural designs for a new school art room were put up for display in the historic Whitechapel ...

HUNDREDS OF members of the community visited the East London Mosque – London’s largest Mosque – and London Muslim Centre today, Sunday, 19th February. They came as part of the Visit My Mosque Day, a national initiative of the Muslim ...