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ONE UNION HAS called off strike action due to take place this weekend – while another is still on course for a walkout. The two unions want London Underground (LU) to allow Night Tube drivers who work at weekends to ...

Emdad Rahman QUEEN MARY University of London invites residents to take part in a free Community Leadership Training Programme where they will learn how to work with others to achieve change in their area. The programme is for people who ...

Emdad Rahman THE BARKING Al Madina Centre has won recognition for its fantastic community work by winning the 2017 Spirit of 2012 Connecting Communities Award at this year’s Lycamobile British Ethnic Diversity Sports Awards (BEDSAs). The prestigious award came about ...

LONDONERS ARE looking forward to a break over the Easter weekend – and fortunately most of the public transport network will be available to take you round the capital. However, there are a few exceptions where services will be closed ...

Emdad Rahman MIAMI CAR WASH held a full weekend charity car wash to help raise money for two good causes. One beneficiary was the Muslim Charity’s Love Rohingya Campaign in support of the persecuted Rohingya people of Burma and the second ...

SALEH SAEED, head of the UK Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC), has welcomed the news that the DEC Appeal has reached £40 million. The Appeal Fund was established to deal with a famine in East Africa, caused by natural factors such ...

TAFSIA SHIKDAR is an ordinary school pupil at an ordinary school in Newham, nervous about her “A”-level exams that are coming up in the summer. From September, though, she will be doing something quite extraordinary – studying engineering at the ...

Emdad Rahman THE RENOWNED community activist Khoyrul Shaheed was recently honoured by Councillor Parvez Ahmed, the Mayor of the London Mayor of Brent. Shaheed joined other community leaders at the well attended civic reception to celebrate his outstanding achievements in community ...

The East London Mosque is seeking to appoint a Chief Executive Officer (CEO) to take charge of the newly created East London Mosque Trust. The Trust has been established to guide the Mosque – and its charity and community facilities ...

WORLD AUTISM Awareness Week runs from 27th March to 2nd April. Estimates suggest that some 1% of the population suffers from autism to some degree. It is thought that 2,300 adults live with autism in Tower Hamlets and the Council ...