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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 ...

  In recognition of his significant contribution to building the Bangladeshi community in Britain and his notable role in social service and journalism on the international stage, Mohammad Mizanur Rahman (Mizan) is being awarded the Expatriate Honour Award 2025. The award will be presented on 27 December at Kazi Nazrul Auditorium in an event organised by the Sylhet District Administration. ...

Reform’s new London mayoral candidate has been accused of “talking down” the UK’s capital, after she said that people “pity” Londoners. Laila Cunningham, a former senior crown prosecutor and a Reform Westminster city councillor, used a central London press conference to paint a picture of the capital as a crime-ridden metropolis, billing herself as “a new sheriff in town” who ...