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By A Shahid Sheikh Dabir Miah is an unassuming pleasant individual who has led an uneventful and ordinary, life in Tower Hamlets for the past forty plus years. However, it was not always like that. 37 years ago, this week he found himself in the cusp of racist murder, turbulent events and a struggle for rights that would go on ...

The Queen has dropped out of the Sunday Times Rich List’s top 300 for the first time. Despite seeing her wealth increase by £10 million over the past year, the Royal has slipped from the paper’s list of the 300 richest people in Britain, published today, due to a dramatic rise in the number of billionaires. The paper reported the ...

Private landlords would not be able to increase annual rents by more than inflation for three years under Labour plans to give tenants more security. Ed Miliband said he would act immediately as prime minister to curb “massive” rent hikes. Conservative London mayor Boris Johnson described rent controls as a “disastrous policy”. Mr Miliband also ruled out any post-election “deals” ...

The London Labour Party has announced that John Biggs has been selected as Labour’s candidate for the re-run mayoral election in Tower Hamlets on 11 June. John Biggs said: “I am delighted to have been confirmed as Labour’s candidate. “Tower Hamlets must now move on from the divisive politics of Lutfur Rahman and his disgraced regime of corruption and mismanagement. ...

Some 35,000 athletes will begin their gruelling 26.2 mile journey at 10.10am on Sunday when the London Marathon mass event gets underway. Charity runners will begin the course at three different start points in Greenwich Park and Blackheath, south London, before the routes converge just before the three-mile mark. The first six miles take place in Greenwich before the route ...

A powerful earthquake struck Nepal and sent tremors through northern India on Saturday, killing more than 1,100 people, touching off a deadly avalanche on Mount Everest and toppling a 19th-century tower in the capital Kathmandu. There were reports of devastation in outlying, isolated mountainous areas after the midday quake of magnitude 7.9, Nepal’s worst in 81 years, centered 50 miles ...

The first black or Asian prime minister will be a Conservative, David Cameron has said, in a speech on opportunities for ethnic minority Britons. The prime minister told in audience in south London he looked forward to the day, as he outlined plans to increase the number of ethnic minority Tory MPs. Mr Cameron also pledged to boost minority ethnic ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah : Citizens Unite, a campaigning group, held a meeting recently to address the issue of young people especially young women from Tower Hamlets who have recently gone to join ISIS in Syria/Iraq. The meeting was held on Wednesday 8th April in Tarling East Community Centre and was presided by Farhana Zaman, Chairperson of the organisation. The well ...

The main parties are running their campaign tirelessly for the 7th May election and political parties are mainly concentrating their campaign on Housing, Education, Health and employment.  In the run up of Conservative Party campaign in Barking, a series of meetings were held for its candidate Mina Rahman.  These campaign meetings were held in Barking Station, Barking Market, Long Bridge ...