If you are worried about crime and anti-social behaviour in your neighbourhood, make sure your voice is heard. The current Community Safety Partnership Plan (covering April 2013 – March 2017) is coming to an end and we are keen to update the plan with feedback from residents and stakeholders. All stakeholders have the chance to shape the council’s next Community ...

Local people taking part in a new programme to tackle Type 2 diabetes will be supported to make healthier lifestyle choices to reduce their risk of developing the disease. The east London area, which includes clinical commissioning groups and local authorities in Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Hackney and the City of London, is one of 27 areas across the ...

The British public have it wrong on immigrants and wrong on the EU. According to their research by Ipsos MORI, British people think far more EU citizens live in the UK than actually do, that we pay far more money to the EU budget than is the case, and that we significantly overestimate the amount of benefits paid to EU ...

More than 430,000 people applied to register to vote in the EU referendum during the extended deadline period. The two-day extension was granted after the government website for registering voters failed just before Tuesday’s original deadline. A prominent Leave campaigner has said he is considering launching a legal challenge to that decision. Leave.EU founder Arron Banks said there were grounds ...

Friday 10 June 2016 Germany’s finance minister, Wolfgang Schäuble, has slammed the door on Britain retaining access to the single market if it votes to the leave the European Union. In an interview in a Brexit-themed issue of German weekly Der Spiegel, the influential veteran politician ruled out the possibility of the UK following a Swiss or Norwegian model where ...

8 June, 2016 The World Bank in its report released on Tuesday, downgraded its 2016 global growth forecast to 2.4% from the 2.9% pace projected in January. It claimed that the world economy is facing sluggish growth, stubbornly low commodity prices, weak global trade, and diminishing capital flows.   As per the report, India’s robust economic expansion is expected to ...

8 June, 2016 Saudi Arabia has unveiled the first concrete targets in its ambitious effort to move its crude-dependent economy away from oil. In a press conference in the early hours of Tuesday in Jeddah, officials revealed sweeping plans to create some 450,000 non-government jobs by 2020, boost non-oil revenues and cut the cost of public wages. The National Transformation ...

8 June, 2016 Islamabad:  Pakistan has failed to take concrete action to keep a lid on banned terrorist outfits like Hafiz Saeed-led Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammad which continuously resurface under new names challenging the government’s authority, a media report said today. Under the Anti-Terrorism Act of 1997, it is the job of the Interior Ministry to determine whether any group is ...

8 June, 2016 Hillary Clinton was looking ahead today to a general election showdown against Donald Trump, hours after making history by clinching the Democratic Party nomination. “Thanks to you, we’ve reached a milestone,” a beaming Clinton told ecstatic supporters in New York, “the first time in our nation’s history that a woman will be a major party’s nominee.” The ...

8 June, 2016 Millions of Muslims across China began observing Ramadan on Monday, which lasts from June 6 to July 6 this year. During the Islamic holy month of fasting and spiritual reflection, Muslims are not allowed to eat or drink between sunrise and dusk. It is widely observed by ethnic minorities in China, including the Hui, Uygur, Kazakh, Uzbek, ...