Emdad Rahman A SMALL commemoration event at Aldgate station involving members of the general community remembered the innocent lives lost on 7/7, when 52 people were tragically taken. Today is twelve years since London was temporarily bought to a standstill ...

Emdad Rahman STEPNEY GREEN PARK hosted two days of family fun and activities as staff and students from the Hafs Academy worked round the clock to deliver a successful and fun-filled weekend.  This community fun day promised to provide something for ...

Hanna-Mariam Chowdhury BBC Radio 4 will be commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India in 1947. This will include an exciting dramatic revival of Salman Rushdie’s award-winning Midnight’s Children, which is due to be broadcast on the birthday of ...

LAST MONTH Richard Laurent was found guilty of manslaughter. Last week he appeared at Woolwich Crown Court and received a prison sentence of nine years, together with a three year extension to the sentence – a total of twelve years ...

IT IS A FIGHT for survival, as Tower Hamlets Youth Sport Foundation (THYSF) tries to stave off cuts which Tower Hamlets Labour Mayor, John Biggs, is planning to the Council’s trailblazing youth sports service. Youth and community leaders across the ...

AN UNIDENTIFIED man is seriously ill in hospital – and police have no idea who he is. The man was in a shop in High Road, Leytonstone, during the afternoon on Monday, 29th June – when he collapsed. He was ...

AS DAWN BROKE this morning a fire broke out in a third/fourth floor maisonette in St Paul’s Way. Within hours, a 17 year old girl had died. The Fire Brigade and London Ambulance Service received an emergency call around 6am ...

Emdad Rahman SYEDPUR SHAHARPARA beat Asharkandi Eagles to win the Jagannathpur UK Union Cup 2017.  A tense final against Shahinul Khan’s Asharkandi Eagles saw the game end in stalemate, which was not surprising considering both teams were playing their seventh ...

Emdad Rahman Scintilla had two shining knights this weekend, with Badrul Alam Chowdhury (Bappy) plundering 103 runs and veteran warhorse Sajal Rahman taking 5 wickets as the Barking & Dagenham outfit beat Redbridge CC at the Britannia Ground, Walthamstow. Club ...

THE RISING SMOKE could be seen across East London this afternoon, raising fears that history was repeating itself and another high rise building was on fire. Fortunately, it quickly transpired that although a tall block of flats was indeed ablaze, ...