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Emdad Rahman:  We travelled to Saudi for Umrah and for ten whole days and nights were able to savour the sheer brilliance of Makkah as well as the magnificence that the golden city of Madinah has to offer. The weather ...

The inaugural British Bangladesh Fashion Week (BBFW) will take place between 8th and 13th October 2012.  The week will celebrate and promote Bangladeshi fashion arts and culture and will champion the relationship between the UKand Bangladesh. It will showcase the ...

Stalwart peace campaigner Len Aldis visited Hanoi, Vietnam, in early May to speak at a Medical University on Agent Orange and the consequences for Vietnam.  While he was there he was able to contact the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU).  Shortly ...

In a Borough where too many residents live in fuel poverty, Mayor Rahman is set to launch an energy co-op which will allow residents to join together and use their buying power to reduce their energy tariffs. Fuel poverty is ...

East LondonNews: With most households feeling the financial pinch, you could be forgiven for assuming that spending on the Jubilee celebrations and paraphernalia would have been relatively restrained.  No so, according to Access Self Storage, which estimates that Britons will ...

Missiles and an absent Ministry were the cause of residents' agitation at a public meeting held in Bow Methodist Church

Arhag Housing Association formally launched their new housing development, Newman Court (Bow Baptist Church), on Wednesday 23rd May 2012. The new scheme has helped to house a large number of families (from a refugee and migrant background) who were living ...

Running enthusiasts of all ages came together to pound the streets of Tower Hamlets

Born and raised in Cambridge, UK, Shahida Rahman is a published fiction author and mum of four. Her first historical novel, Lascar, will be launched at the Brick Lane bookshop, 166 Brick Lane, London E1 6RU on 4th June 2012. ...

Emdad Rahman interviews Bishop Adrian Newman of Stepney. Bishop Adrian Newman is the Suffragan Bishop of Stepney. He was an economist before he became Vicar of Wadsley Bridge. He was Rector of St Martin-in-the-Bullring, Birmingham from 1996 to 2004, before being ...