Today (Wednesday 26 May), as part of a commitment to deliver 2,000 new council homes, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets unveiled Altab Ali House in Wapping. Altab Ali was the young Bengali man whose brutal murder in Whitechapel in 1978 mobilised the Bangladeshi and wider community to take a stand against racial intolerance. Over 40 years later, on the ...

By Akbar Hussain: We are utterly shocked, traumatized and devastated to witness the heinous scenes in the ‘world’s largest prison’ – Gaza, Palestine, held captive by the Israeli army. The occupied land, which has now become a tiny enclave, has been surrounded by the Israeli forces. For almost two weeks, sound grenades have been fired, wounding many civilians and innocent ...

By Shofi Ahmed:   Gestures of gratitude to Allah SWT for being alive, surviving the devastating Covid-19 pandemic, dominated a friendly Eid union gathering with the Speaker of the Tower Hamlets Council, Cllr Mohammed Ahbab Hossain recently in Lime Grill Restaurant, Limehouse east London. The group also gave a floral reception to friend Councillor Mr Hussain who was recently elected ...

    Delivery of laptops to Blue Gate Fields Infants’ School marks 110,000 digital devices distributed to students nationwide since COVID-19 started The London Borough of Tower Hamlets, in partnership with LGfL, are both seeking to accelerate access to online learning and tackle digital disadvantage A delivery of laptops gifted to students in Tower Hamlets marked the landmark moment of ...

  By Shofi Ahmed: Not into Bangladeshi politics, steer clear of it. It seems many of us British Bangladeshis have adopted this norm. There are good reasons for it. No one needs to know rocket science to figure out what these are. We know that. However as Bangladesh is our motherland it’s often an eyesore political landscape sometimes deserves our ...

  On Wednesday 28 April the Mayor of Tower Hamlets and Cabinet approved the introduction of a borough-wide Public Spaces Protection Order (PSPO) to deal with the use of nitrous oxide linked to antisocial behaviour. A PSPO is an order that prevents certain behaviours or actions being carried out in a specified area. Tower Hamlets already has two PSPOs in ...

A new strategy has launched on Wednesday 19 May) to reduce violence, vulnerability, and exploitation (VVE) affecting children and young people in Tower Hamlets. This follows new statistics which reveal a promising starting point for the new strategy: Knife crime injury has fallen 25 per cent (120 to 90) in three years Serious youth violence has fallen 7.7 per cent ...

  Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, as Head of the Commonwealth, has today recognised Korvi Rakshand, representing Bangladesh, as the 181st Commonwealth Point of Light in honour of his exceptional voluntary service helping young people take part in volunteering. Korvi, aged 35, launched ‘Volunteer for Bangladesh’, the country’s largest volunteer platform with over 35,000 young people taking part in voluntary ...

  Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs joined Rich Mix CEO Judith Kilvington, staff and customers for the long-awaited re-opening of their cinema. After a year like no other for the arts and cultural industries, everyone at Rich Mix was incredibly excited to welcome their audiences back and to share in culture and creativity once again. To celebrate the return ...

As the country starts to return to some normality following more than a year of uncertainty, and the significant impact on people’s lives from Covid-19, many of us are still suffering from the effects of poor mental health. Newham Council has collaborated with Good Thinking and other partners to create the Five Ways to Wellbeing and Islam. These five steps ...