THE GOVERNMENT has announced that competitive sport may resume in the UK from Monday, 1st June – but only after the governing bodies of the individual sports concerned have assessed the risk, and only as long as there are no ...

THE CLUBS in the English Premier Football League have voted unanimously to take another step forward in their plan to resume professional matches at the top level. The decision was taken after consultation with clubs, players, the Professional Football Association, ...

THE JUNE issue of The Voice – monthly magazine of the East London Garden Society (ELGS) – is out now, bringing greenies its usual mix of information about gardening theory and practice. The state of our planet is a hot ...

ISLAMIC RELIEF has thanked Muslims across the world for following Ramadan guidelines on social distances – and warned them to continue as Eid approaches. Even if the rate of increase in the number of infections is coming down, new people ...

A KNOCK AT the front door always makes you nervous during the Coronavirus Lockdown. Who on earth is coming round at a time like this? But it was worth opening the door on the Isle of Dogs on Wednesday, 20th ...

Emdad Rahman A TEAM OF volunteers on the renowned Gascoigne Estate in Barking has launched a new community foodbank to support local people. The Al Noor Cultural & Educational Trust Foodbank is based on the estate, which sits in one ...

WHAT DOES a market stall do during a Coronavirus Lockdown? That was the question FruitDesk – a family run business which has sold fruit from a stall in Leather Lane market, near Farringdon, for over 40 years – asked itself. ...

IT TOOK eight months for Perry Rickenberg, 23, of Ricardo Street, E14 to be sentenced – but pleading guilty to charges related to the supply of drugs has now seen him sentenced to four years and eight months in prison. ...

BURIAL SERVICES in East London are among those which are to receive some of the 2,000 items of Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) which the UK charity Muslim Hands is distributing to Muslim Burial Councils and Funeral Services across the country. ...

A GROUP OF FOUR London pub enthusiasts – Louisa, Rebecca, Danny and Josh – admit that they love and miss their pub. They are also worried that too many of the capital’s pubs are struggling to survive during the Lockdown. ...