TOWER HAMLETS Council has launched its new Suicide Prevention Strategy 2018-21. The Strategy was launched on 1st February – national Time To Talk day, when people are encouraged to talk about mental health. The suicide rate in Tower Hamlets is ...

Emdad Rahman THE THINGS WE take for granted someone else is paying for.  We had a new team at Stratford City with my mate Mosh and nieces Mariah and Zahra and Nadia all clubbing together to support homeless friends. Nadia ...

Emdad Rahman QUEEN MARY University of London invites residents to take part in a free Community Leadership Training Programme where they will learn how to work with others to achieve change in their area. The programme is for people who ...

Emdad Rahman SCINTILLA CRICKET CLUB is proud to announce, ahead of the 2017 season, that East End Logistics will be one of the Club’s new sponsors.  Managing Director Rob Dewan Syed will also be taking up a new role as ...

Emdad Rahman A community group of friends have got together and agreed to spend a significant amount of time doing something charitable and positive. The peer group came up with the idea of holding a weekend charity car wash with 100% ...

First, the bad news: East London residents have a very high incidence of heart disease. Now, the somewhat better news: these same residents have access to some of the very best cardiac care in the world. And that better news ...

Her Royal Highness Princess Alexandra has met “unsung heroes” from the Alzheimer’s Society – some of the staff who work tirelessly behind-the-scenes to improve life for people with dementia. The Princess, who has been Alzheimer’s Society’s Royal Patron since 1990, ...

It’s smiles all round down at the East London Genes & Health study, the world’s largest community based genetics study. The project is celebrating its first milestone – 4,000 local participants have now taken part! The research project has also ...

Emdad Rahman Convoy to Calais is a grassroots project which was initially intended to just be a group of friends fundraising and distributing clothes. However, after witnessing the malicious scapegoating of refugees and realising how this sort of attitude is increasingly ...

Do you have uncontrolled high blood pressure? Is your doctor at the end of his or her tether, trying to find new ways to get those readings down? Barts hospital may be able to help: read on. Nearly one third ...