The latest edition of The Voice – newsletter of the East London Garden Society – has announced the launch of a crowdfunding campaign to create a London Community Flower Show. The news comes out as the slightly snooty Chelsea Flower ...

It’s one of the most ironic songs produced by the original 10cc, and it starts the second side of the “How Dare You” LP, released 40 years ago. Its starting point was the phrase “art for art’s sake, money for God’s ...

Emdad Rahman A community group of friends have got together and agreed to spend a significant amount of time doing something charitable and positive. The peer group came up with the idea of holding a weekend charity car wash with 100% ...

It was 25-4-25 on 26th May, as 25 parliamentarians turned out to celebrate 25 years of Human Appeal and launch the charity’s 2016 Ramadan campaign, which is being run in conjunction with the Council for the Advancement of Arab-British Understanding. ...

The East London Mosque has published its Ramadan calendar.  The month will begin on 5th June and it is anticipated that Eid will be on 6th July. Printed copies of the timetable can be collected from the Mosque. The timetable ...

Tower Hamlets Council has always taken its responsibilities to looked after children in its care very seriously. It runs a Virtual School, which it explains as a system “responsible for working with social workers, carers and professionals to promote educational ...

The televised debate on the EU aired on 26th May hit the headlines. First, we heard that a cheeky chap in the audience had asked presenter Victoria Derbyshire out on a date. What a card! It’s amazing just how many ...

By Emdad Rahman Ten teams participated in the Tower Hamlets Fathers Football tournament organised by Ambassadors Football. The eight-a-side football showpiece which took place at Stepney Astroturf is now firmly established in the local football calendar. Participating schools included Seven Mills, ...

Last year the Government announced that it was going to review the operation of Sharia Law in the UK – as part of its “counter extremism” strategy. Even then, it was another tiresome example of how the Government contributes to ...

Reports from the USA say that a number of “unbound” delegates have just announced that they will give their votes to Donald Trump. The announcement, if confirmed, will give Trump enough delegates to win the nomination to be the Republican ...