A MAN HAS BEEN sent to jail for three and a half years and given a 15 year restraining order after pleading guilty to assaulting a woman and causing grievous bodily harm and three counts of assault on emergency workers. ...

Cllr Nazir Ahmed FRSA – barrister, writer and analyst – explains the extra protection due to tenants during the Covid-19 pandemic. The long established legal requirement that landlords must give a minimum of two months’ Notice period when serving a ...

A new partnership between the National Literacy Trust, the Mayor’s Fund for London and HarperCollins will give 9,000 brand new children’s books to London families who are being supported by the Mayor’s Fund for London’s Kitchen Social food programme. The ...

FACE COVERING measures on public transport and hospitals are only the first step says the British Medical Association (BMA). Doctors have long been campaigning for more masks – and more public information about wearing them – to help slow down ...

MANORFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL will be trialling a new method of optimising space so that children who return to school can learn and socialise while maintaining social distance. The plan comes from architects Curl la Tourelle Head, which has suggested that ...

SUPPORTING the “Black Lives Matter” movement is not just a case of saying you support it, or going on a march to show you do, or signing a petition to say that police officers should stop killing black people in ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has defended its practice of asking residents to sign into its website before completing online surveys – claiming the practice is more convenient and “robust”. A few days ago we reported that Tower Hamlets Council was asking ...

WHILE scientists and politicians weigh up the reasons why Black and Ethnic Minority communities are suffering disproportionately high infection and death rates from Coronavirus, the healthworkers’ campaign Medact has revealed that some black and/or migrant patients are being questioned over ...

AS THE Prime Minister and his Cabinet announce apparently random easings of the Lockdown in England, usually leaving the public in ever greater confusion, London’s doctors have expressed their concern about whether they could cope with a second wave of ...

Emdad Rahman blog #MASJIDALNOOR on the Gascoigne Estate has a dedicated team of volunteers who are focussing on serving the estate and surrounding localities in the borough of Barking & Dagenham. The majority of the team are from the local ...