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Emdad Rahman: A group of diverse volunteers both young and old joined up for a 2 mile trot and a 5K run around East London as a get together to clean up the local community and have some fun at the same time. The event started at Victoria Park and finished at the Hackney Council Sustainability Day at Hackney Town ...

Emdad Rahman: Primary school friends Leo and Rafi are running all 53 Parkruns within the M25 for Together in Barnet because they want to make a difference in their community. The pair recently visited East London to take park in Barking Parkrun. Both Leo and Rafi will be 13 years old in 2019. As Jews, this is seen as the ...

Tower Hamlets comes joint first for Best Overall Borough in Sustain’s Beyond the Food Bank annual league table. Soil Foundation Gold Food for Life Award renewed, with 87% of school meals freshly prepared. Healthier school menus rolled out to 87 schools. Tower Hamlets Council’s catering services, which serves meals to approximately 30,000 students across 87 schools, has started serving new ...

Tower Hamlets Council has clamped down on anti-social behaviour at an estate in Whitechapel by banning “unauthorised people” from entering its communal areas. Residents at Berner Estate had complained to their landlord, Tower Hamlets Homes (THH), and local police that drug addicts were entering the block to use Class A drugs. Rough sleepers were behaving aggressively toward residents and caused ...

Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs has requested an urgent meeting with the developers who have purchased the management rights to 600 railways arches in Tower Hamlets from Network Rail. The Mayor has highlighted the concerns of businesses worried that following the sale they face potentially crippling rent rises to their arches based business premises. Over the summer, the Mayor heard ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah: We must unitedly oppose any candidates, known for sectarianism & hate crime, standing at the next general election said NAP President Pankaj Bhattacharya. He was speaking as the Chief Guest at a meeting in Dhaka’s CIRDAP (Centre on Integrated Rural Development for Asia & the Pacific) venue on 31 October organised by the UK based Secular Bangladesh ...

  Bangla Mirror Desk: The British Bangladeshis have made their own place in multicultural Britain with contributions in their respective fields and have been playing a major role in the growth of this country. The British Bangladeshi Who’s Who publication emphasises the success of the Bangladeshi community and showcases it to both the British and Bangladeshi community in the UK. ...

Emdad Rahman BISHWANATH UNITED picked up a Highly Commended Award at the London Asian Business Awards at the Millennium Gloucester Hotel, Kensington. The winners of the Community Award were the David Palfreman (Asian People’s Disability Alliance). Other nominees included London Tigers. Speaking after receiving the award, Nazir Ali, the media and marketing leader of Bishwanath United, commented, “We are a ...

By Abu Sahid: Faith leaders from Tower Hamlets say they are “deeply concerned” by the sharp rise in Islamophobia.  The London Muslim Centre said government needs to do more to stop this and support Muslim organisations in the community. A Home Office report published last week said hate crime has increased dramatically in the last year compared to figures from ...

London, October 25: Speakers at a seminar held in London on 25 October 2018 at the House of Lords titled “Parliamentary Democracy in Bangladesh: Challenging Radicalism & the Way Forward” called upon the European governments & policy makers to reassess their views of Jihadist groups and said Europe needs to understand that the rise of radicalisation and religiously-motivated violence is ...