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A 22-year-old nursery worker has been sentenced to eight years in jail after being convicted of the “sadistic” abuse of 21 babies, including pinching and pushing children and kicking one little boy in the face. Roksana Lecka, from Hounslow in west London, admitted to seven counts of cruelty to a person under the age of 16 and was convicted of ...

A 700-year-old church tower has been suspended 45 feet above ground as part of a major City of London building project. The tower of All Hallows Staining Church was balanced on stilts above a 60,000 square foot excavation site at 50 Fenchurch Street in what developers called a “never seen before feat of engineering”. A “bottoming out” ceremony on Tuesday ...

Sir Sadiq Khan has said Donald Trump has shown he is “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic” after the president made comments about him to the United Nations. Speaking to the UN General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, Trump said London had “a terrible, terrible mayor, and it’s been changed, it’s been so changed”. He added: “Now they want to ...

A person has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a man in his forties was arrested in West Sussex “as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace”. There have been hundreds of flight delays after Collins Aerospace ...

City Thameslink in London has been named the worst of Britain’s busiest railway stations for cancellations in the year to August. About one in 13 of almost 150,000 scheduled stops there were cancelled during that time, according to Office of Rail and Road (ORR) figures analysed by BBC. Those cancellations were among about three million cancelled stops in Britain of ...

  By Muhammed Shahed Rahman:   Tower Hamlets Town Hall’s Open Day was held with a large number of residents and distinguished guests in attendance. Saturday (September 20) marks the council’s 60th anniversary and the official opening of the new town hall coincide with the event. The Town Hall was crowded with visitors from 10 am to 5 pm. The ...

Air travellers are facing another day of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow, after a cyber-attack knocked out a check-in and baggage system. There were hundreds of delays on Saturday after the software used by several airlines failed, with affected airports boarding passengers using pen and paper. Brussels Airport said a cyber-attack on Friday night meant passengers were being ...

US President Donald Trump has said he “didn’t want” London Mayor Sir Sadiq Khan at the state banquet hosted by the King at Windsor Castle. Speaking to reporters on Air Force One heading back the US, Trump described Sir Sadiq as “among the worst mayors in the world”, saying he had wanted to attend the event, but “I asked that ...

The mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan has for the first time described the situation in Gaza as a “genocide” against the Palestinian population. The Labour mayor’s remarks follow a United Nations commission of inquiry which found Israel had committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. Israel’s foreign ministry said it categorically rejected UN the report, denouncing it as “distorted and ...

By Ansar Ahmed Ullah:   The Bangladesh Hindu Association UK (BHA UK) celebrated its Silver Jubilee with a vibrant ceremony on Saturday, August 30, at the Ravidassia Community Centre in Manor Park, East London, marking 25 years since its founding. Members and delegates travelled from across the country, including Birmingham, Bradford, Loughborough, Portsmouth, Hull, Sheffield, Leeds, and Coventry, to attend ...