CRITICISM HAS RAINED down on Tory Transport Secretary Chris Grayling MP, who has announced the route of a new Lower Thames crossing. The Government will be going ahead with “Option C”: a new tunnel going under Green Belt land and crossing ...

MONDAY, 17th October 2016 started just like any other working Monday for Pardeep Kaur. By the end of the day, she was dead. Now homeless Latvian Vadims Ruskuls, 25, has been convicted of murdering her. Pardeep began her last day, ...

THE UK UNEMPLOYMENT rate has remained virtually unchanged over the last quarter for which figures are available. The official figure stood at 1.56 million at the end of February – down just 45,000 over the previous three months. To have ...

Emdad Rahman THE WHITECHAPEL branch of the Human Relief Foundation has announced a charity partnership with the Co-operative which will see 1% of the profits from the local store being awarded to aid the humanitarian efforts of the charity. A percentage ...

TOWER HAMLETS now has more people living in the private rented sector than in any other kind of housing. It’s not surprising, then, that John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has decided to launch a major initiative designed to improve conditions ...

THE ELECTION OF Donald Trump as US President was never going to make the world a safer place. Nonetheless, even his harshest critics did not think that it would all go wrong so soon. Two things have happened. •First, on 4th ...

Emdad Rahman ONE YEAR AGO, swashbuckling Scintilla Cricket Club star Ashraful Islam Johnny almost died after contracting tuberculosis of the brain. Because of the complex nature of his illness, the talented opener was hospitalised for six months and it was touch ...

A FREEDOM OF Information request from BBC London has uncovered figures which show that London Underground (LU) is responsible for 360 station closures in 2016 – that’s just under one a day throughout the year. LU bosses are quick to ...

BAD NEWS about Reker Ahmed’s condition has emerged after his brother and a friend visited him in hospital. Ahmed was attacked last Friday in Shrublands Road, Croydon, by a gang of eight to ten youths who had identified him as ...

Emdad Rahman YOUNGSTERS FROM Newark Youth FC have partnered with local adults to fundraise for children affected by poverty in Bangladesh.  The football youth have taken part in various activities to fundraise and raise awareness of how young people who ...