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  £13.7m investment includes opening 19 youth centres in two years More than 5,000 sessions delivered in 2025 including careers advice, outdoor adventure learning and multisport sessions Tower Hamlets has London’s youngest population – average age is 30 On Tuesday (13 Jan), the council launched a new Youth Strategy for 2025-2027 – a landmark new plan to deliver one of the most ambitious youth offers in the country It ...

  Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   Dabirul Islam Choudhury OBE (1919–2026), lovingly known across the diaspora as Dabir Chacha, passed away peacefully at the age of 106 on 13 January at the Royal London Hospital. His Janaza was held today, 14 January, at the historical Brick Lane Mosque, attended by all sections of the Bengali diaspora community. Following the Janaza, his ...

London’s Mayor, Sadiq Khan, has launched a new £2.2 million programme designed to help low-income families across London access millions in financial support, as it was revealed £4 billion in benefits go unclaimed, writes Frankie Hills… Named the Family Financial Resilience Partnership, the service will provide free, independent advice to families with children on a multitude of issues, including benefits, ...

A tourist tax on overnight visitors to London could raise more than £350million per year for the capital – but central boroughs are keen to retain their fare share of the revenue. Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan last year finally received the powers to levy a tax on overnight visitors to the capital after years of lobbying ministers. New ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : 106 year-old Dabirul Islam Choudhury passed away leaving behind a legacy of faith, resilience, and service. During the height of the COVID pandemic, he inspired the world by walking daily throughout Ramaḍān while fasting, raising over £420,000 for charity. His quiet determination showed that age is never a barrier to doing good and that sincere intentions can ...

Three teenagers and a Bangladeshi taxi driver have lost their lives in a horrific road accident in Bolton, Greater Manchester, UK, in the early hours of the morning. The incident has cast a shadow of grief over the entire area. A red Seat Leon car collided head-on with a Citroen C4 Picasso taxi on Wigan Road, Bolton, at around 12.50am ...

Hop across the river to Canary Wharf to see the tenth edition of Canary Wharf’s FREE Winter Lights festival, running from Tuesday 20 January to Saturday 31 January. The Winter Lights festival showcases 16 exceptional light artworks from artists and studios around the world. Canary Wharf will be transformed into an open-air exhibition and is free for the public to ...

The Mayor of London has vowed to ‘turn the tide’ on rising levels of homelessness in the capital as figures show rough sleeping has increased by 63 per cent since he took office. Sir Sadiq Khan said he was determined to prevent people being forced to sleep on the streets “at source” with a strategy that focuses on prevention and ...

A protester has climbed on to the balcony of the Iranian embassy in west London as hundreds gathered outside the building, waving flags and shouting anti-government slogans. The Metropolitan Police said two arrests had been made at the protest and that officers were also seeking another individual for trespass. Anti-government protests erupted in Iran on 28 December, with two human ...

LONDON, Jan 8 : Human Rights Watch (HRW) warned Thursday that the UK has “severely restricted the right to protest” in recent years and was expanding “repressive measures” against peaceful demonstrators. A report titled “‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK,” comes a few weeks after Swedish activist Greta Thunberg was arrested and then released ...