Salvation Army’s Homeless Team makes football finals Emdad Rahman Arsenal and England Football legend Tony Adams was a star guest as the Gunners and Three Lions ex-captain turned out to support homeless footballers in action. The occasion was the Partnership ...

Tower Hamlets Council marked World Mental Health Day on 10th October by encouraging residents to take time out for their mental wellbeing. Around one in four people in the UK will experience a dip in their mental wellbeing each year, ...

The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman has been looking at who is coming to them to complain about poor service – and, alarmingly, it has found that South Asian and Muslim women are less likely to complain about their NHS ...

Rabina Khan – known to us in Tower Hamlets as Cllr Khan, Member for Shadwell and Cabinet Member for Housing and Development – was named Hero of the Year at the European Diversity Awards on 2nd October. The award was ...

Tower Hamlets Council has been working with partners in the health service and the community to help people join the national “Stopober” initiative and stop smoking. Smoking accounts for over 100,000 deaths in the UK each year and it is ...

The World Land Trust (WLT), the international conservation charity, is putting the spotlight on big cats during Big Cat Big Match Fortnight in October. During the first two weeks of October, donations to WLT’s Big Cat Appeal will be matched ...

East India Youth isn’t actually from East India – he’s only borrowed the name, as that is where he lives now and where he makes his music.  Nonetheless it’s great to get a local name check in the Mercury prize ...

Pale tell us that they have just taken nine months off to write music. ELN’s music reviewer is away this week, so we had to get the old curmudgeon in the office to listen to their new tracks – who ...

Emdad Rahman The English Cricket Board has announced the shortlist for the twelfth annual NatWest Outstanding Service to Cricket Awards. BBC Commentator Jonathan Agnew will host an esteemed event of 400 guests next week, which will see eight OSCAs presented. ...

Several months ago we published the link (https://eastlondonnews.co.uk/having-a-wales-of-a-time/) to a Guardian video showing Robin Wales discussing housing issues with one of his constituents.  We speculated that Sir Robin had probably just come back from a customer care course. Now it seems ...