TWO FOOD WORKERS in Indonesia – Atra Narwanto and Lutfi Ariyanto – are appealing for brothers and sisters across the world to help them organise to win better working conditions at the Coca Cola bottling company plants in Indonesia. The bottling ...

Muhammad Talha THE LEYTON ORIENT TRUST – in partnership with the Alzheimer’s Society, Dementia Action Alliance, Fans for Diversity and Kick It Out – hosted a Mental Health Awareness Day at Brisbane Road on the day of Orient’s home game ...

Emdad Rahman DAGENHAM 88 runner Lynne Northcott, aka Jogonhijabi, returned home to complete The Great South Run as part of her preparations for the London Marathon. Northcott is running for the Penny Appeal to raise funds for a fresh water project ...

Emdad Rahman A group of volunteers in Newham declined the opportunity of having a lazy Sunday in order to wash cars and raise awareness of the plight of the persecuted Rohingya people of Myanmar.  Team Legend are a group of ...

JEREMY CORBYN’s Labour Party has pledged to cut household bills for energy, water and post – by bringing companies running these services into public ownership when it forms a government. The Party estimates that the move could save the average ...

STABBINGS AND shootings are cutting down young men in Newham at a rate it is hard to follow. Now police have revealed that an incident which occurred in Plashet Road last Thursday has led to a 31 year old man ...

THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION has radically revised its proposals for new parliamentary boundaries in Tower Hamlets – and in doing so it has given sitting MP for Bethnal Green & Bow Rushanara Ali something of a lifeline. The Boundary Commission’s first ...

THE BOUNDARY COMMISSION has radically revised its proposals for new parliamentary boundaries in East London – and in doing so it has given sitting Labour MPs a relatively easy ride. At the moment, the six MPs in the key East London ...

OFFICERS FROM THE Metropolitan Police Homicide and Major Crime Command have launched a murder investigation after a 20 year old man was fatally stabbed in the chest in Plashet Park on Sunday afternoon. It was just after 4pm when the ...

The Boundary Commission has proposed the following changes to parliamentary seats in the key East London boroughs. Tower Hamlets Currently two MPs: Bethnal Green & Bow; Poplar & Limehouse Proposed one MP for Stepney & Bow; some wards combine with ...