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ONE OF TOWER HAMLETS’ two Labour MPs – Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for Poplar & Limehouse – has confirmed that he may once again vote with the Conservative Government rather than support his own party. Fitzpatrick was speaking on Radio 4’s ...

EAST LONDONERS have been condemning the terrorist who massacred Muslims in New Zealand and expressing their condolences to the relatives and friends of the dead and to the injured. Local Muslims, and non-Muslims, gathered at Friday prayers in the East ...

APSANA BEGUM (Tower Hamlets) and Cllr Bob Littlewood (Redbridge) have been elected to represent the “City & the East” part of London on the Labour Party’s London Regional Board. The two were elected by Labour Party delegates to the London ...

EAST LONDON NEWS wishes all our readers a Happy New Year. We apologise for our “radio silence” over the last few days – technical issues beyond our control have kept us off air. We hope to return in full force in the ...

A LONG JOURNEY starts with a single step – and that single step may have been taken in Greatorex Street in Tower Hamlets on Sunday night, 7th October when a number of community activists came together to discuss how to ...

THE CITY STAY HOTEL in Bow is the focus of attention this morning – as claims surface that Ruslan Boshirov and Alexander Petrov partied the night away in the hotel before making their way to Salisbury. What the pair did ...

REPORTS ARE emerging that Cllr Rabina Khan has announced that she has disbanded the People’s Alliance of Tower Hamlets (PATH) party of which she was the Leader and has joined the Liberal Democrats. To date, Cllr Khan has issued no ...

BARTS HEALTH NHS TRUST has defended itself for carrying out ID checks on patients – pointing out that it is only carrying out government policy and trying to claim back money from patients who are not entitled to free treatment. ...

DISTURBING PRACTICES are going on within the NHS facilities run by Barts Health Trust, according to local campaigners in the Tower Hamlets branch of Keep Our NHS Public (KONP). Campaigners report that hospitals in the Barts Health Trust are asking ...

Emdad Rahman UNDERDOGS NOBIGANJ FC have been crowned the Greater Sylhet Upazila Cup Champions for 2018 – after defying all odds to lift Britain’s number one football trophy. Nobiganj beat four time finalists Osmaninagar in a dramatic penalty shootout to ...