GEAR UP for the arrival of the cyclists! On 27th July, 200 cyclists will be welcomed to the East End at an open air event with food and entertainment at St John on Bethnal Green Church. The cyclists are part ...
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The Thames Today
TODAY WE gaze north up the Millwall Inner Dock. Once a busy working dock, over the last 30 years what was once public land has been taken over by high rise blocks of flat. Most of them are for sale; ...
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TODAY THERE WAS “fowl play” on the Thames as two members of our avian community came out to enjoy the early afternoon sun. •If you have a photo of the Thames which you would like to share with our readers ...
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THE ENTIRE southern boundary of Tower Hamlets runs alongside the Thames – London’s major river, which cuts our capital city in two. Sadly busy Tower Hamlets residents don’t always have time to admire the view – to watch the changing ...
Read More »Football coach volunteered to help Syrian refugees
EAST LONDON football coach and humanitarian volunteer Emdad Rahman has spent a week with Sufian Refugees in Lebanon. The self-styled “Wandering Londoner” joined the UK-based Human Relief Foundation team on a charity deployment and spent time at various locations around Beirut. ...
Read More »Beware fire risk as summer hots up
THE LONDON FIRE Brigade has warned everyone to take care when holding a barbecue outdoors – or when discarding cigarettes. Last year London endured a spate of grass fires as the grass dried out and residents forgot how easily it ...
Read More »Rebel Labour MP Jess Phillips dismisses parents protests
IT IS “thanks to the bigotry of a few” was what rebel Labour MP Jess Phillips, Labour MP for the Yardley part of Birmingham told the BBC. She was reacting to a decision by the City Council to ban protests ...
Read More »Telling it like it is
Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 3 You don’t have to be a millionaire, a big shot, a celebrity to bring about change. If that were the case, then why do many people carry out unpaid service – stating that a simple ...
Read More »Homeward bound – and a last act of giving
Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 4 I was supposed to chill before leaving today but, being the great leader that he is, I was invited by Human Relief Foundation big Chief Kassim Tokan to visit the Bourj El Barajne, one of ...
Read More »Man injured in hit and run after prayers
A MAN HAS BEEN left with serious injuries after being struck by a car as he came out of the Masjid At-Taqwa Mosque in Humberstone Road Leicester in the early hours of the morning. The man, who is in his ...
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