A FIRE BROKE OUT late on Sunday night in a flat in a block on Cassilis Road – in the Canary Wharf Ward on the Isle of Dogs. Ward Councillor Maium Miah (Independent) was immediately on the scene. Cllr Miah immediately ...
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Osborne charged – terrorism and murder
DARREN OSBORNE has been charged with terrorism-related murder and attempted murder. The 47 year old, who is from Cardiff, drove a hired van into a crowd of Muslims who had just left prayers at Mosque early on Monday morning. The ...
Read More »PM: “more combustible cladding found”
MINISTER Theresa May has admitted in the House of Commons that tests on tower blocks since the Grenfell Tower fire have revealed that some of them have cladding which is “combustible”. The PM did not reveal details of which blocks ...
Read More »K&C Chief Exec resigns over Grenfell Tower
NICHOLAS HOLGATE, Chief Executive of Kensington & Chelsea Council, has resigned in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire. Holgate explained that the Government’s Communities and Local Government Secretary, the Rt Hon.Sajid Javid MP had told the Leader of Kensington ...
Read More »Queen’s speech: manifestly absurd
IMAGINE THE scenario. An unelected leader visits a country’s parliament – and sits in a chamber of unelected members of parliament and summons the elected representatives of the people to hear what the elected leader has sanctioned as the legislative ...
Read More »Inde Councillors call on MPs to act on fire safety
TOWER HAMLETS Independent Group of Councillors has marked the Queen’s Speech by sending an Open Letter to the two Labour MPs in Tower Hamlets – Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar & Limehouse) and Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green & Bow), The Letter deals ...
Read More »CAGE Director Rabbani pleads “not guilty”
IN NOVEMBER last year, CAGE International Director Muhammad Rabbani came back to the UK from a trip overseas. As he passed through Heathrow, police took various electronic device from him – and demanded that Rabbani hand over his passwords. Rabbani ...
Read More »Finsbury Park: it’s one dead, 8 in hospital
THE FINSBURY PARK attack is being investigated by the Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command – that indicates that the initial assessment is that this is a politically motivated and deliberate attack. The Prime Minister confirmed at approximately 5am that the ...
Read More »Muslims run over as they return from prayer
REPORTS ARE coming in that a small crowd of Muslim men in Finsbury Park have been run over by a van as they returned from Taraweh (prayers). Eyewitnesses suggest that seven brothers have been injured, three seriously – with other ...
Read More »Community united for historic anti-extremism rally
Emdad Rahman NOT IN OUR NAME! Not in our city! That was the collective slogan as a group of Muslims and non-Muslims from across London came together to participate in a silent rally in Whitechapel followed by a demonstration to ...
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