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    Lutfur Rahman, the Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, and the great granddaughter of Mary Driscoll officially opened 19 new homes in Bow, named in her honour. Mary Driscoll was a Matchgirl and the youngest member of the Strike Committee, which negotiated with the directors of the Bryant & May match factory in Bow. The women and teenage girls ...

    YOUNG climate change activists have the chance to unleash their creativity to create solutions for real world challenges, thanks to a partnership between Tower Hamlets Council and the LEGO® Group. The Idea Store service, run by Tower Hamlets Council, was chosen as the only UK library to take part in the Build the Change project created by the LEGO ...

  FAMILIES are being urged to claim their free places for children at holiday clubs across the borough this summer. In partnership with local organisations and funded by the Department for Education, Holiday Activities and Food (HAF) clubs will be offered across Tower Hamlets this summer to provide children aged 4-16 with fun opportunities for play and socialising alongside nutritious ...

A Treasury minister is being investigated by Parliament’s standards watchdog over a failure to register rental income on a London property. Tulip Siddiq, Economic Secretary to the Treasury and Labour MP for Hampstead and Highgate, north London, is under investigation for the late registration of interests, according to the Parliamentary Standards Commissioner’s website. A Labour Party spokesperson said: “Tulip will ...

An “evil man” who strangled his wife for having an online affair and dumped her body in a river has been sentenced to life in prison. Aminan Rahman, 46, from east London, attacked 24-year-old Suma Begum during a video call with her boyfriend last April, the Old Bailey previously heard. The court was told how Rahman put her into a ...

    Ansar Ahmed Ullah:     In response to the call of the UK Awami League, a rally of thousands of people was held in front of the Parliament in London today, 29 July, to protest the violence, arson and destruction that occurred in Bangladesh around the ongoing quota movement. Responding to the call of the United Kingdom Awami ...

A man has been stabbed to death and two teenagers injured following a fight in an east London park. Police had been called to Plashet Park, East Ham, at about 19:30 BST on Saturday over reports of an altercation. A man, believed to be 20, was found fatally injured and died at the scene. Two teenage boys were also discovered ...

Thousands of supporters of the far-right activist Tommy Robinson have filled Trafalgar Square in central London after a march. He claimed the event was the “biggest patriotic rally” the UK had ever seen. A counter-protest by Stand Up To Racism and former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s Peace & Justice Project also took place in London. The Metropolitan Police said a ...

    The families and relatives of the deceased who are staying in Sylhet have demanded an exemplary trial for the killing of Daily Jalalabad investigative reporter and Daily Naya Digant’s Sylhet correspondent / ATM Tura who were shot by the police in Sylhet. In a press conference in London on Friday, the family complained that the police are not ...

  Poplar and Limehouse MP says scrapping the two-child benefit limit “could lift hundreds of thousands of children out of poverty and send out a positive message of hope.” Commenting on the King’s Speech debate in Parliament, Apsana Begum, MP for Poplar and Limehouse, said: “People in Poplar and Limehouse voted for change, and they are looking to Parliament – ...