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The UK’s foremost master planner, architect Sir Terry Farrell, says we should build low-cost rising bridges east of Tower Bridge to ease traffic and create new floating neighbourhoods for London’s exploding population. There are 34 bridges across the Thames in Greater London. Just one lies east of Tower Bridge, 20 miles downriver in Dartford — the Queen Elizabeth II Bridge, ...

David Cameron has been accused of “lazy and misguided” policy-making after he said a poor grasp of English left Muslim women in the UK “more susceptible” to the lure of extremism. Baroness Sayeeda Warsi – a former Conservative chairman – said he was guilty of “stereotyping communities”. The PM said he wanted to help women learn English to improve integration. ...

Prime minister, who only started using term Daesh for terrorist group last month, chides Radio 4 presenter David Cameron has criticised the BBC again for using the term “Islamic State”, saying Muslim people would be holding their heads in despair. The prime minister made the comments when he was asked about Islamic State by presenter Sarah Montague during an interview ...

Three men from Manchester caught up in a potential terror investigation inCanada have claimed Vancouver police racially profiled them because they had beards. CCTV pictures of the trio in a Vancouver shopping mall were leaked to Canadian media last week after they were seen taking “suspicious” photographs. Vancouver police on Thursday appealed for information about the “suspicious incident”, which they ...

A corridor of snow has swept across parts of the UK, with many people in south-east England seeing their first fall of the winter. The band of snow moved through western Scotland, north-west England, the Midlands, and south-east England. Parts of rural Scotland dropped to -10C (14F) for a second night. The weather has caused flight delays at Manchester and ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: Civil justice is unaffordable for most people, more people are being forced to represent themselves, and judges – whose pensions have been cut – feel underappreciated, according to the lord chief justice. In his annual report to parliament, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd welcomed the government’s commitment to spending £780m on modernisation and new technology but delivered a ...

Bangla Mirror Desk: TV One will broadcast programmes both in Bengali and in English language to cater for the continuously evolving Bangladeshi community in the UK & Europe. The programmes will be a mixture of educational, entertainment, religious and specifically tailored children’s and adults interactive programmes. The channel is committed to provide access to the very best in infotainment content, ...

Labour Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs and his Cabinet have put forward their proposals for the Council’s budget for the financial year 2016/17. Against a background of Government cuts to funding for local Councils, pressures on services from growing demand and a legacy of issues that had not been tackled by the previous administration the proposals form a coherent ...

Sunamganj District Welfare Association recently organised its 2015 award giving to successful achievers of GCSE and A level in a colourful and vibrant mood.  30 successful students from different schools were given award by MP, Mayor, Councillors and community leaders.  The event took place in Royal Regency Banqueting Hall in Newham on 13th December. Thousands of expats from Sunamganj took ...

Plans to demolish and rebuild some of England’s worst council estates are to be unveiled by the prime minister. David Cameron told the BBC’s Andrew Marr Show that demolishing the estates “where people can feel trapped in poverty” could result in “better houses and more houses” being built. The initiative will be headed by Lord Heseltine, who oversaw regeneration in ...