Health

A NEW and serious reminder to people who have a peanut allergy comes from the Food Standards Agency (FSA): keep avoiding food which list mustard as an ingredient. It was way back on 20th September when the FSA first warned ...

JUST WHEN you think you’ve got a new hospital well on track, along comes a new Government which shunts it into the sidings. It doesn’t matter how much consultation you’ve had or why you need it: the Minister wants to ...

By Carol Saunders for Tower Hamlets Keep Our NHS Public TOWER HAMLETS Keep Our NHS, together with GPs from the borough’s Local Medical Committee, jointly hosted a really successful public meeting at the Bernie Cameron Community Centre in Bow on ...

YIKES! Do you remember the warnings in recent years about not taking too many antibiotics (especially for conditions they cannot cure)? The predicted consequences are here – and London is coming off worst. Antibiotics were a miracle drug. They killed ...

We spoke to Deputy Mayor Cllr Maium Talukdar, Cabinet Member for Education, Youth and Lifelong Learning and councillor for Canary Wharf ward about the women’s takeover of the Tiller Road Be Well Centre. “Lutfur Rahman promised,” said Cllr Talukdar, “and ...

AFTER YEARS OF campaigning, it looks like politicians are finally acknowledging the need for more housing in the UK – particularly social housing. And after similar years of grassroots campaigning, politicians are also recognising how important – and underfunded – ...

Boris had his parties at no. 10; Cameron his parties back at university; and Starmer had a bottle of beer in an MP’s office. But now there’s a new scandal brewing: and it’s to do with your personal health information. ...

THE LABOUR GOVERNMENT has done a good thing by promising to enact one of the previous Tory Government’s plans. Now there’s a sentence you don’t hear often. The cause of all this joy is that the Government has announeced that ...

CHECK YOUR cupboards! A food company FGS Ingredients Ltd, which produces spices has found out that some of the mustard it supplies to other food manufacturers has been contaminated by peanuts.  Those manufactuerers have used the contaminated mustard to make ...

IT WAS NO quiet lunch for two on Thursday as Mayor Lutfur Rahman and Deputy Mayor Cllr Maium Talukdar went to Swanlea School to celebrate the launch of free school meals for secondary school pupils. “Thrilled to launch free school ...