POLICE ARE appealing for help in identifying two men in connection with a serious assault which took place in Poplar in February. The suspects have been at large for the last four months. The assault took place at in the ...
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Seeing out Ramadan with homeless friends
Emdad Rahman “Helping one person might not change the world but it could change the world for one person.” HALF OF homeless people are afflicted with diabetes, high blood pressure, cancer or arthritis but do not receive any treatment. It’s a ...
Read More »Island fire: Cllr Miah demands action
A FIRE BROKE OUT late on Sunday night in a flat in a block on Cassilis Road – in the Canary Wharf Ward on the Isle of Dogs. Ward Councillor Maium Miah (Independent) was immediately on the scene. Cllr Miah immediately ...
Read More »Osborne charged – terrorism and murder
DARREN OSBORNE has been charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder. The 47 year old, who is from Cardiff, drove a hired van into a crowd of Muslims who had just left prayers at Mosque early on Monday morning. The ...
Read More »After Grenfell – who’s got the energy?
THE NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE (NAO), the government body which scrutinises public expenditure, has criticised the government proposal to build a nuclear energy plant (Hinckley C) in Somerset. This adds criticism of the finances of the plan to earlier concerns about ...
Read More »Brexit: now farmers face labour shortage
FARMERS ARE struggling to harvest summer crops of fruit and salads as the number of migrant workers prepared to come to the UK has slumped. The UK relies on some 80,000 workers to pick summer produce, most of whom come ...
Read More »PM: “more combustible cladding found”
MINISTER Theresa May has admitted in the House of Commons that tests on tower blocks since the Grenfell Tower fire have revealed that some of them have cladding which is “combustible”. The PM did not reveal details of which blocks ...
Read More »Faith leaders meet senior police
Shah Yousuf: THE MORNING after the terrorist attack at Finsbury Park, faith leaders from across London went to New Scotland Yard to discuss hate crime. The faith leaders issued the following statement. “An attack on one community is an attack on ...
Read More »Charles pays respects at Finsbury Park
HAVING BEEN to the House of Lords to open Parliament in the morning, the Prince of Wales visited Finsbury Park in the afternoon to meet people who had been present during Monday night’s attack and to visit the area – ...
Read More »East End pharmacist jailed for drug offences
NIREN PATEL, 38, has been sentenced to a total of 12 months in prison, after pleading guilty to two counts of fraud by abuse of a position of trust, possession with intent to supply a Class B drug and five ...
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