THE ROY CASTLE Lung Cancer Foundation is organising a Retro Running Series which will take place throughout 2020. The Series offers a chance to re-live your favourite decades, to do a bit of healthy running – and to help support ...

FOOTBALL ACTION across East London has ground to a halt after the various football governing bodies called off fixtures until 3rd April. The move came in response to the increasing concern over the Covid-19/Coronavirus pandemic. The ban has been agreed ...

Emdad Rahman Rofikul Islam has been made a Freeman of the City of London – the highest honour that the City of London can bestow on an individual. He is the youngest British Bangladeshi recipient of this honour. Rofikul is ...

HOUSEHOLD PETS can nod off in all sorts of strange places. The bed and mattress specialists Bed SOS ran a competition to find the cutest sleeping pets, judged on the basis of their owners’ photographs. The winner was Amy Briscoe ...

Emdad Rahman EASTEND HOMES AND its Holland Estate Estate Management Board (EMB) arranged and delivered a community event on the Holland estate to celebrate the Tower Hamlets Play Street event and to also mark the official opening of the recently ...

Muhammad Ismael AHEAD OF Sunday’s Inner London Football League Inner City World Cup, Team Bangladesh got together to launch the team kit and thank well wishers for their support. The community event was sponsored by FC Workhouse and Sayed J ...

EAST LONDON football coach and humanitarian volunteer Emdad Rahman has spent a week with Sufian Refugees in Lebanon. The self-styled “Wandering Londoner” joined the UK-based Human Relief Foundation team on a charity deployment and spent time at various locations around Beirut. ...

Emdad’s Lebanon Diary Day 2 We visited Arsal today. It is a Red conflict zone, but we had received special permission to enter the region and camps to meet the residents. After an information briefing from Badih, we travelled along ...

Emdad Rahman FOR THE FIRST EVENT of the 2019 season, Tough Mudder headed to North London for five kilometres of awesome obstacles and epic teamwork. Abdal and I decided to really go wild on Friday night by travelling over to ...

Emdad Rahman RAMDHANA IS A quaint and charming village which stands along the Pachla river in Bishwanath, Sylhet. The natural colour and vibrancy of the surrounding picturesque landscape permeate this humble Bangladeshi village. A common practice among the Ramdhana expatriate ...