Community

Emdad Rahman Barking & Dagenham Muslims celebrated their Eid day with communal morning prayers at Barking  Park. The prayer was conducted by Imam Imran, who told the congregation, “Although this is a day of great happiness and enjoyment let us not ...

Emdad Rahman “Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how expensive it is to be poor.” James Baldwin. It was rainy, dark and bleak. The town centre was bustling though. My team Scintilla Cricket Club had taken on the soup ...

The collapse of the pedestrian bridge over the M20 – caused by a wayward truck last week – has led to traffic delays and problems for Londoners trying to travel out to Kent and on to the Channel Tunnel or ...

Emdad Rahman A local businessperson has led by example and generously donated a cash boost to support a local children’s hospice which offers vital services to severely ill children. Local Conservative Party member Kam Ali visited the Haven House Children’s ...

Emdad Rahman Players, personalities and community leaders will take to the football pitch as Beanibazar Sporting Club (BSCUK) gets ready to play a charity exhibition game to raise funds for Beanibazar Cancer Hospital (BBCH). The teams will be comprised of the ...

Emdad Rahman This week we had a special guest as Tom Parmenter from Sky News joined us at the soup kitchen at Stratford City. Apparently Owen Smith thinks he could eradicate homelessness within five years if he was to come ...

Selina Jahan came to the UK some seven years ago, from the Bagbari district of Sylhet, Bangladesh. She came with her husband, Shahin Ahmed, and their children. Initially the family joined her father in Tower Hamlets, but they then decided ...

We’ve all heard that race hate crimes have increased since the “Brexit” vote in the referendum – and now the British Transport Police have confirmed the trend. The Transport Police recorded 119 incidents which included allegations of racist abuse on ...

On 1st August, a Rotherham mosque received a bomb threat.  Less than three weeks later a man has been arrested and is being questioned. The bomb threat arrived by post in a letter – not so much a letter as ...

The East London Mosque is well known to Tower Hamlets residents as a large, busy Mosque and Islamic Centre. But did you know that two schools are housed in the London Muslim Centre and the newly completed Maryam Centre in ...