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Heathrow Airport has announced changes to passenger drop‑offs at its terminals, making it more expensive and enforcing a time limit for the first time. From January, the west London airport will increase its terminal drop-off fee from £6 to £7 and will give travellers 10 minutes in the drop-off areas before issuing a Parking Charge Notice (PCN). Visitors to the ...

  30 November 2025: Redbridge Community Trust UK held its Executive Committee meeting on Sunday evening at a café in Ilford to review recent activities, evaluate community engagement, and plan forthcoming programmes. The meeting was presided over by President Mohammed Ohid Uddin and conducted by General Secretary Shaheen Chowdhury. Cllr. Ahbab Hussain Choudhury attended the meeting as an observer. Committee ...

  London, 29 November 2025: Thousands of people travelled to central London on Saturday to take part in a national march marking the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. Participants gathered at Hyde Park Corner at midday before marching through Piccadilly, Haymarket and Trafalgar Square, finishing with a rally in Whitehall. The demonstration was organised by a coalition of ...

Labour MP and former minister Tulip Siddiq has described her two year prison sentence in Bangladesh as “deeply unfair” after a court convicted her in her absence on corruption charges. She was found guilty of influencing her aunt, Bangladesh’s ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, to secure a plot of land for her family in the outskirts of the capital Dhaka, ...

  Matiar Chowdhury:   In an important development in Westminster, Labour MP John McDonnell has formally raised the situation in Balochistan in the House of Commons, focusing on the abductions of Baloch women, including Nasreena Baloch and Mahjabeen Baloch and the reported use of drones in internal security operations. McDonnell has submitted three written parliamentary questions and tabled an Early ...

  A British Bangladeshi mother, Hasina Momtaz, has been shortlisted for Entrepreneur of the Year 2025 at the Muslim Women Awards after transforming the grief of losing her son into a powerful message of hope, faith, and resilience for others through her faith-inspired jewellery brand. Hasina founded Soul Gems London in 2019 in memory of her son, Sami Ahmed, who was killed ...

London is weighing whether to implement a new tourist tax targeting overnight guests. Mayor Sadiq Khan is reportedly looking into charging overnight visitors a tax on stays at hotels and short-term rentals. “The mayor has been clear [about considering] a modest tourist levy, similar to other international cities,” a spokesperson for the mayor of London told the Local Democracy Reporting ...

A commemorative plaque honouring Ayub Ali Master, a pioneering figure in British Bengali history, has been unveiled on Christian Street, near the site where he and Shah Abdul Majid Qureshi ran the Indian Seamen’s Welfare League office in 1943. Ayub Ali Master played a vital role in supporting South Asian seamen and migrants in East London during the early 20th century. His work ...

Bethnal Green has welcomed a new Saturday Market this month, located outside the historic E. Pellicci Café on Bethnal Green Road. Running every Saturday until 20th December, from 10am–4pm, the market will feature six stalls showcasing local arts, crafts, and fashion, bringing vibrancy and opportunity to one of London’s most historic high streets. The market is a collaboration between the ...

    Muhammed Shahed Rahman:   Bangladeshi-American child Sarvia Hasan has achieved the Guinness World Record for being the youngest girl in the world to publish a story book. She has become a source of pride for Bangladesh and the Bangladeshi diaspora by achieving this extraordinary achievement in the “Youngest Person to Publish a Book (Female)” category. Sarvia’s story book ...