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Tower Hamlets launches recruitment campaign for more foster carers

Tower Hamlets Council has today (Monday, March 2) launched a high-profile campaign to find more foster carers for children. For the next two weeks the council will be advertising across eight boroughs in East London. The adverts focus on the fun side of raising foster children. They feature images of Tower Hamlets foster carers in fancy dress with the tagline, ‘Filling Children’s Lives With Love and ...

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Labour picks Sumon as local candidate

Peter Hawkey (left) congratulating Sumon Hoque (right) on becoming the Scottish Labour candidate for Banff and Buchan in the General Election. Friday 13 February 2015 The Banff and Buchan Labour Party has selected Sumon Hoque as its candidate for this May’s General Election during a meeting in Banff recently. A graduate from University of Aberdeen, Sumon has been working in the world of business ...

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Beckton Community Neighbourhood observes International Mother Language Da

Beckton Community Neighbourhood organised an event to observe International Mother Language Day, on Saturday 21st February 2015 at 12.00 pm outside Beckton Globe. The event featured cultural performances from the different communities in the area along with a variety of stalls selling an array of products. Members of different communities took part to observe this colourful event. These communities included ...

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The Labour Party celebrates its diversity

This week, Labour party politicians, Shadow Cabinet Members, Members of Parliament, Councillors, candidates and supporters came together for a celebration in the heart of the London. The event is organised annually to celebrate the incredible diversity of the Labour Party. The Labour Party’s candidates for the General Election are the most diverse of any of the main parties put together; ...

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Greater London Nabiganj Welfare Association UK organises meeting

Greater London Nabiganj Welfare Association UK has been working to strengthen the brotherhood of UK residing people Nabiganj. The organisation has been playing an important role for the development of the area too. The speakers told this in an emergency meeting held on 18 February in a restaurant in East London. Chairperson of the organisation, Alhaj Nehar Miah Chowdhury presided ...

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UK BNP hands over memorandum to David Cameron

UK BNP has handed over a memorandum demanding the withdrawal of restrictions on food entering to confined former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia, re-establish democracy in Bangladesh, safeguard human rights and to hold free and fair election under caretaker government immediately. UK BNP President Shaesta Chowdhury Kuddus, General Secretary Koysor M Ahmed, Senior Vice-President Abdul Hamid Chowdhury and Publicity and Publications ...

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DUDA takes initiative to establish women’s college and maternity hospital in Digholbak

Digholbak Union Development Association UK (DUDA) has taken an initiative to establish women’s college and maternity hospital in Digholbak Union of Nabiganj Union. The newly appointed Advisor of the organisation and prominent industrialists Alhaj Motiur Rahman Chowdhury told this in a meeting held on 24 February in a restaurant in Brick Lane to felicitate him. He has requested the organisation ...

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Birthday celebration of Dr. Amanullah Ashru

The birthday celebration of London living poet Amanullah Ashru was observed on 6th Februray in a colourful atmosphere. A huge number of followers and friends of the poet took part in the celebration and shared their joy together with the poet and his family members. Poet Dr Amanullah Ashru was born in Rarri family of Noyanogor Gram in Gojaria Upozilla ...

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UK Bangladesh High Commissioner presented credentials to the Queen

  Ansar Ahmed Ullah :: Bangladesh’s High Commissioner to the UK Md Abdul Hannan presented his credentials to Her Majesty the Queen Elizabeth II at the Buckingham Palace on 11 February 2015 in a simple but regal ceremony. High Commissioner Md Abdul Hannan, joined the London Mission as High Commissioner on 30 September 2014. Acting Vice Marshal of the Diplomatic ...

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UK security services ‘failed’ over Syria girls

The family of a Glasgow woman who may have encouraged three London girls to join Islamic State say officials “failed” to stop them leaving the UK. Aqsa Mahmood, 20, who went to Syria to be a “jihadi bride” in 2013, reportedly had online contact with one of the girls who flew to Turkey last week. It is feared that Kadiza ...

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