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IS NOW THE TIME to stop specialist modern language teaching in Tower Hamlets? The teachers and service users who came to a public meeting at the London Enterprise Academy on Saturday (25th January) said no: but one man is saying ...

BOW EAST residents are unimpressed by the announcement that the London Mayor is giving Tower Hamlets Council £350,000 to spend on helping small businesses to improve air quality in the borough. Air quality was one of the reasons why people ...

Emdad Rahman AL QALAM ACADEMY students – “little heroes” – have been busy raising the profile of a charity which has been supporting orphans. The Little Heroes project aims to raise money for Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh and Uyghur ...

BARKING & DAGENHAM residents are being encouraged to join the British Red Cross Community Resilience Advocate Programme. The scheme helps people to develop the skills needed to help their community plan, prepare and respond to emergencies. Residents can play a ...

A SLOUGH taxi Driver had a lucky escape on Tuesday night when strong winds blew the roof off a block of flats in Slough High Street – sending debris crashing down into the busy road below. Cabbie Haris Baig told ...

Muhammad Talha COUNCILLOR Victoria Obaze, Speaker of Tower Hamlets Council, has spoken about her passion to use her public platform to help raise awareness of issues which impact communities. The Whitechapel Member took part in a Dementia Friends Information session ...

JAMAL AHMED is having a great year. In October he became a “Fellow of Information Privacy” (FIP). Now his business, Kazient Privacy Experts, has been named the Best Small to Medium-sized Business of 2019 at the Best Business Awards (BBAs). ...

TWO EAST LONDON mayors – John Biggs from Tower Hamlets and Rokhsana Fiaz from Newham – have met up to mark the opening of a new pedestrian bridge which links their two boroughs. The bridge cost £593,000 – that’s thought ...

JAMAL AHMED – founder of Kazient Privacy Experts, based in London – has been awarded the designation “Fellow of Information Privacy” (FIP) – the first British Bangladeshi to receive the award. He joins a highly select group of professionals worldwide ...

EMDAD RAHMAN has been labelled an “Amazing Londoner” and received an outstanding award for volunteering in the community. The Barking and Dagenham resident – who volunteers in his home borough as well as in Redbridge, Newham and Tower Hamlets – ...