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More than one in 10 children who contact ChildLine because they have been sexually abused or fear they will become a victim are primary school age, new figures reveal. And in nearly all the cases they knew the offender. Last ...

The debate over health and safety is one which brings out the differences between the Conservative Party and the Labour Party. At the start of 2012, David Cameron famously announced that his new year’s resolution was to get rid of ...

Tower Hamlets Council is working with faith groups to protect and preserve places of worship in the borough. The Historic Places of Worship Support Scheme, due to run till 2016, builds on English Heritage’s annual update of its “heritage at ...

The EDL website has announced that it will be holding a demonstration in Tower Hamlets on Saturday, 7th September.

  The Black and Ethnic Minority Arts Network (BEMA) had to step in and sort out the London Borough of Hackney last week. Hackney is redesigning the Narrow Way – that bit at the top of Mare   Street where the ...

So you have this group of blokes. And they want to meet up on a Saturday, in a pub. And then they want to

British Muslims signed a historic Intra-Faith Unity Statement and discussed tackling extremism at the 16th Annual General meeting of the Muslim Council of Britain. British Muslims from a diverse range of faith traditions came together on Saturday, 29th June to ...

The first Tower Hamlets Cockney Heritage Festival starts this week with a launch event on 18th July. Events continue for a full week, with walks, exhibitions, films, talks, discussions and special events. The full programme can be downloaded from: http://www.ideastore.co.uk/.

Fourteen Eastenders – most of whom have been mates since school – have scaled Britain’s highest peak to raise money for an international orphan education progamme. The group travelled up to Edinburgh, at their own expense, climbed Ben Nevis and ...