“HE’S NO George Lansbury, is he?” was the response from one mum on finding out that John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is going to close the remaining three Council day care nurseries in Tower Hamlets. “Is this how he’s ...
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An Eid Message from Jeremy Corbyn
Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn has issued the following message to mark Eid. Assalamu’alaikum, I would like to wish Eid Mubarak to Muslims in the UK and all around the world celebrating Eid-al Fitr. Eid is a wonderful time for ...
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THE East London Mosque has issued the following statement. “The Coordination Committee of Major Islamic Centres and Mosques of London has agreed that Eid al-Fitr will be tomorrow Inshallah, Friday the 15th of June 2018. “We pray for the acceptance of ...
Read More »Reports of child abduction in Bethnal Green
STORY UPDATE: fortunately the reports of an abduction were based on a misunderstanding Story update UNCONFIRMED reports are coming in of a young child being abducted as she left school in the Cambridge Heath Road area this afternoon, 13th June. ...
Read More »Here we go! Tower Hamlets starts to count
TOWER HAMLETS IS counting. The candidates, their supporters, the press (seven of us so far), Council staff, venue staff and the police are spread out in a cavern in the Excel Centre in Newham. And the ballot boxes are in. ...
Read More »Home Secretary Amber Rudd resigns
HOME SECRETARY Amber Rudd has resigned – after Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party called on her to go. Rudd had denied knowing that the Home Office set targets for how many people should be deported – a strategy which may have led ...
Read More »Two injured by car outside Birmingham mosque
A CAR drove into two men outside the Shah Jalal mosque on Ettington Road in the Aston area of Birmingham at approximately 2.15pm today, 27th April in an incident which was all too reminiscent of the attack on Finsbury Park ...
Read More »High Court rules coroner discriminatory to Muslims and Jews
THE HIGH COURT has ruled that the policy operated by Mary Hassell, Senior Coroner for Inner North London, is discriminatory. She had ruled that she would hear inquests in the order that deaths were reported to her irrespective of the ...
Read More »Fatal stabbing in Forest Gate
AN EAST LONDON teenager died last night after being stabbed in Forest Gate, Newham. He is thought to have been just 18 years old. This morning, police cordons were still up around the scene. The emergency services received a call ...
Read More »Trump takes a step towards World War 3
THE US HAS bombed Syria. UK and French forces have joined in. The three claimed that this was a punishment of the Syrian Government for allegedly using chemical weapons in an attack on its own population in Douma. The three ...
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