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Labour will not be voting against the government’s welfare bill and the limiting of child tax credits to two children, Harriet Harman has confirmed. The interim Labour leader said the party could not tell the public they were wrong after two general election defeats in a row. She said Labour will oppose the cuts in tax credits for those in ...

A “fearless” 101-year-old has set a world record by abseiling more than 300 feet down a tower. Doris Long said she felt no fear as she broke her own previous world record for the oldest abseiler by descending down the Spinnaker Tower in Portsmouth. The pensioner, nicknamed Daring Doris, took up the challenge to raise money for the Rowans Hospice ...

By A Shahid Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborn unveiled the Summer Budget 2015 setting out his plans for the UK economy.  It is a first all – Conservative budget for nearly two decades. Mr Osborn said his party was fulfilling key pre election pledges to reduce welfare bill by a further £12bn. The standout policy was him embracing a ...

Bangla  Mirror Desk Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) senior vice-chairman Tarique Rahman last week attended an Iftar Mahfil in his honour arranged by the UK Unit of the BNP.  The iftar event was principally to meet and greet Bangla journalists from a number of print and electronic media in the UK. The party’s UK unit hosted the Iftar Party at Bric ...

Ex. Councillor of Tower Hamlets Rofique Ahmed’s second daughter Nelema Begum has become a Doctor from King’s College London. On July the 3rd of 2015, Nelema Begum graduated with her MBBS degree from Guy’s, King’s and St Thomas’ Medical School. Nelema aspires for a career within Surgery and Dermatology specialising in skin cancer. She has spent time at the St. ...

Bangla Mirror desk As London unites to mark the tenth anniversary of the 7/7 bombings, staff at The Royal London Hospital will hold a memorial service at the A&E entrance of the old hospital, to remember those who died and honour the courage of all those affected. At The Royal London, home to world-leading trauma services and London’s Air Ambulance ...

Tower Hamlets Council has been today (July 8) declared the legal owner of the Henry Moore sculpture “Draped Seated Woman” at the High Court. The council has been involved in a lengthy ownership debate with Bromley Council (as successor to the London Residuary Body) who claimed rights to the sculpture in 2012. Responding to the news, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : A British Bangladeshi family of 12 has disappeared amid fears they have travelled to Syria. The group from Luton, which reportedly includes a baby and two grandparents, failed to return home from a holiday in Bangladesh. Police said they are investigating and that “there is a suggestion that the family may have gone to Syria”. Bedfordshire ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Sadiq Khan revealed that his campaign to be Labour’s candidate for Mayor of London has the support of 14 London MPs and over 150 councillors. Among the MPs is former Public Accounts Select Committee chair Margaret Hodge, Shadow Justice Minister Andy Slaughter and Rushanara Ali, whom Khan had nominated for deputy leader before she withdrew from ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : An expatriate philanthropist named Jilu Miah has come forward to arrange the supply of electricity in three villages of Nabiganj under Habiganj district in Bangladesh. Those three villages are Gumgumia, Halimpur and Korgaon. Members of the 475 families of these villages are very happy to get the long-awaited connection of electricity supply line.Local school, madrasas and ...