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Emdad Rahman Barking FC have dedicated their home fixture against Norwich United to raise money for Barking & Dagenham Mayor Abdul Aziz’s chosen charities: DABD UK and the British Heart Foundation. Barking Football Club was established in 1880. The team ...

IS IT TIME FOR the UK to follow the example of the authorities in Brussels and open emergency shelters for the homeless during periods of extreme cold? The press has recently been warning of the coming spell of extreme cold ...

THE EAST LONDON Mosque Trust is developing a strategic plan to guide its activity over the next five years – and its inviting the Mosque community to put forward suggestions. What do you think about the current services? What do you ...

Emdad Rahman Kind hearted runners enjoyed a well deserved evening out at a social event to support a local theatre. A popular fundraising quiz evening arranged by Timi Veerasamy was a big success, with £874 being raised by inter running ...

NEW RESOURCES to help parents work out what to do if their child is ill have been launched in Tower Hamlets. Is this a way to reassure worried parents or part of a larger move to restrict access to NHS ...

REFUGEES who are surviving precariously in refugee areas in Bangladesh are facing further difficulties with the coming of the monsoon season – and many may have to flee yet again. Many of the latest refugees are surviving in makeshift camps ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE is working with the Islam Channel to debate the issue of organ donation – because the UK Government is considering introducing legislation to change the way that donation is allowed in the UK. At present, individuals ...

POLICE ARE appealing to the public for help in finding Tiana Lyn, who is just 14 years old. Tiana, who is from Havering, has been missing since 11.30am on Friday, 16th February. Tiana is described as black and of slim ...

A LOUND “BANG” was heard on a Docklands Light Railway (DLR) train just after 11am this morning, 19th February. Worried commuters thought it sounded like a bomb had gone off and rushed to evacuate the train at Pontoon Dock station. ...

HUNDREDS OF members of the community visited the East London Mosque – London’s largest Mosque – and London Muslim Centre today, Sunday, 19th February. They came as part of the Visit My Mosque Day, a national initiative of the Muslim ...