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Celebrate British Bangladeshi fashion

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 ...

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Vietnam women join call to ban Dow

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 ...

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Mayor Rahman tackles fuel poverty

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 ...

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Is this the “austerity Jubilee”?

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 ...

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“Religion is amazingly important.”

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 ...

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