Rayhan Ahmed (22), from Jubilee Street in Stepney, the only son in his family, has drowned while on holiday with friends in the Alanya district of Turkey. The friends had taken a trip into the forest and were near the ...
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Why we must all put Tower Hamlets First
Well, here we are; three and a half years later, and it doesn’t seem like five minutes since 300 people stood on a frosty Old Ford Road at gone 2am one Friday morning in October 2010 and cheered their heads ...
Read More »Lutfur Rahman in shifty pro-Biggs escapade
Friday’s our day off in East London News: and what better way to spend it, given that it is the last Friday of the election campaign, than touring the Borough’s mosques to get the last minute vibes? Imagine our surprise, ...
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ISSUE 01/25 ————— The new issue of EastLondonNews is now ready. You can browse the latest copy online. Use the link below to direct you to the website and simply click the front page of the paper to view full ...
Read More »Biggs: gone fishing?
One of the reasons why the number of people employed in the UK has gone up is that as it’s so hard to get a decent full-time job, people are having to do two or three part-time jobs to make ...
Read More »The Prince of track runners
On 6th May 1954, Roger Bannister (now Sir Roger Bannister) ran the first four minute mile. In March 2012, Emdad Rahman interviewed Sir Roger. We reprint the interview today to pay tribute to Sir Roger’s achievement, sixty years ago. Emdad ...
Read More »Islamophobic crime soars under opposition parties’ relentless Lutfur-bashing
Metropolitan Police Service crime figures up to the end of March 2014 show that incidents classed as “Islamophobic crime” have nearly tripled, from 17 to 50 individual incidents. The increase coincides with the period of time in which Labour and ...
Read More »Opposition parties’ timing drains Council coffers (a bit)
The BBC’s Panorama programme is in the news again. The allegations aired during the programme were not new: the “documentary” referred to Council grants made several months ago. Viewers saw former Labour Leader Cllr Josh Peck say that he was “pretty ...
Read More »Labour denial answers no questions
On Wednesday evening last week, Tower Hamlets First put out a press release stating that Professor Michael Keith, former leader of the Council, had written a document in 1995 in which he claimed John Biggs had written material which was ...
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ISSUE 01/24 ————— The new issue of EastLondonNews is now ready. You can browse the latest copy online. Use the link below to direct you to the website and simply click the front page of the paper to view full ...
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