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Bangka Mirror Desk:: Every election presents a choice. With around 100 days until the General Election in May, it’s clear that the choice in 2015 will define the East End for a generation. Times remain incredibly tough for people in East London. Families are £1600 a year worse off since 2010. Child poverty is spiralling. People’s pay has fallen 9% ...

The Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets has said that we all need solidarity of our human conscience in order to come out from the terrorist attack in Paris and the aftermath of it. He also said that, rather than creating divisions on the basis of religion or colour, we should see terrorists as terrorists. He said this in a meeting ...

Bangla Mirror Desk::A mother of Bangladeshi origin and her lesbian lover killed her daughter Ayesha Ali after developing a relationship centred on fictional characters, a court has heard. Kiki Muddar, 43, and Polly Chowdhury, 35, are accused of murdering eight- year-old Ayesha Ali at a block of flats in Chadwell Heath on 29 August 2013. At the Old Bailey, prosecutor ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:: Primark has organised a press conference on their ongoing work in Bangladesh and its response to Rana Plaza tragedy.  The press conference was held in Bombay Restaurant in West London on 19 January. The Press briefing was conducted by the Ethical Trading Director of Primark Katherine Stewart and chaired by Paul Lister, Director of Legal Services and ...

Bangla Mirror Desk:: A Bangladeshi is among 60 young people from across the commonwealth who have been selected for the first-ever and prestigious Queen’s Young Leaders Award. The British High Commission in Dhaka on Tuesday said Shamir Shehab would be recognised for his “exceptional leadership” in the community. The award, which will be presented in London by the Queen in June, ...

Bangla Mirror Desk : Eight British citizens of Bangladeshi origin are going to participate in the upcoming parliamentary election of the United Kingdom, which is due to take place on 7 May, just one day after the coalition government fulfils its term. They have been nominated from three major political parties of the country for the election to be held ...