LOCAL GP and Chair of the Tower Hamlets Local Medical Committee (LMC) Dr Jackie Applebee has written a letter to Jeremy Hunt, Secretary of State for Health, protesting against government cuts in funding of Tower Hamlets NHS. She is now ...

Emdad Rahman THE MUCH anticipated Sonali Othith District Cup returned to Tower Hamlets in 2017 and a whole day of entertaining football culminated in Sylhet  gaining revenge over Sunamganj after losing the same final to their opponents last year.  The pendulum had ...

Emdad Rahman SUNAMGANJ EXACTED revenge by beating rivals Sylhet in the 2017 over 50s Sylhet District Cup at Stepney Astroturf. The Whitechapel-based team lost the same final 2-1 to Sylhet in Hackney last year and, with a team boosted by ...

CONSTITUENTS IN Bethnal Green & Bow were stunned today as the constituency MP, Labour’s Rushanara Ali, snubbed a local reporter trying to ask her a question at a public meeting. The incident occurred at a public meeting in defence of ...

CAMPAIGNERS are calling on the Tower Hamlets public to come along to the Barts NHS Trust AGM next Wednesday and support the people who clean our local hospitals. Cleaning hospitals is not just a case of prettying up the surroundings. ...

THE RECENT MURDER of Corey Davis highlights the worryingly high level of gun and knife crime taking place in Newham over the summer. Just before Corey’s  murder, detectives from the Met Police Trident initiative made some progress in finding some ...

POLICE HAVE now released CCTV footage of an “acid attack” that took place in May as they attempt to track down the suspect. There were witnesses to the early evening attack and police are asking them to come forward. The ...

IT WAS 6.15pm on Thursday, 31st August when a 19 year old woman pedestrian and a vehicle were involved in a collision on Lea Bridge Road, E10, near the junction with Elm Park Road. The London Ambulance Service and the ...

•Story update Detective Chief Inspector Dave Whellams of the Homicide and Major Crime Command has today made a specific appeal to the public to come forward with information about a large, light coloured 4×4 type vehicle which was seen leaving ...

COMMUNITIES ACROSS Tower Hamlets have been concerned for the last two years as the Council, under John Biggs, has cut the youth service and, most recently, put the future of young people’s sport in jeopardy. For his part, John Biggs ...