Taking place at the Park Plaza Westminster on the 13th October, the glitzy red-carpet Asian Restaurant & Takeaway Awards (ARTA) will reward excellence, craft, creativity and great taste by bringing the UK’s most prestigious Asian restaurants and chefs together under one roof. With over 2400 applications, ARTA will commend the very best of Asian cuisine and the masters behind the ...

  Students have been getting creative to spruce up the walls at the Tower Hamlets Reuse and Recycling Centre (RRC) with murals promoting environmentally-friendly activities. Cory Riverside Energy has been working in partnership with Tower Hamlets Council on a recycling project with students from George Green’s School, culminating in three murals promoting environmentally friendly activities. John Biggs, Mayor of Tower ...

  One year birthday celebrations took place yesterday (Thurs 3 Oct) at the Tower Hamlets Homes operated, Financial Health Centre (FHC) in Stepney. The centre brings together a number of community organisations to assist residents with issues impacting on their financial wellbeing. There are over ten delivery partners, including the likes of Account3, Citizen Advice Bureau, Go-Train, LBTH and Limehouse ...

Students from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) were put through their paces with a three day Workpath pilot programme starting on 30 September designed to prepare them for the world of work. The programme saw students brushing up on their interview techniques and discussing ways to approach job applications. John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, said: “Tower Hamlets is home ...

Three families who challenged the government over its approach to special needs and disability (Send) funding have lost their case at the High Court. They said there was a crisis in funding that would “blight” children’s lives. Mr Justice Lewis dismissed their claim for a judicial review, ruling there had been no unlawful discrimination. The education department had not acted ...

The European Union’s full devastating point-by-point rejection of Boris Johnson’s Brexit proposals for the Irish border has been revealed in documents obtained by the Guardian. Leaked documents lay bare the scale of the multiple faults highlighted to David Frost, the prime minister’s chief negotiator, during the recent talks. The disclosure follows the prime minister’s claim on Monday that he had ...

Boris Johnson will send a letter to the EU asking for a Brexit delay if no deal is agreed by 19 October, according to government papers submitted to a Scottish court. The document was revealed as campaigners sought a ruling forcing the PM to comply with the law. Their QC said the submission contradicted statements by the prime minister last ...

  Tower Hamlets has the lowest late HIV diagnosis rate in the country, according to the latest figures published by Public Health England. The council is once again supporting this year’s Do It London campaign, a London-wide initiative that aims to encourage people to get tested regularly and raise awareness of HIV prevention, including using condoms. Since the campaign began ...

Fatema Miah: Food is essential fundemental aspect for survival and the same food is the medicine for body to maintain healthy immune system.  Food necessity, from 2014 to 2016 (from the United Nations and the Food and Agriculture Organisation) indicate that around 795 million people (around 1 in 9 of the world’s 7.3 billion people) are chronically undernourished without access ...

Along the water, at night and throughout the parks – our volunteers went beyond the call of duty for Big Clean Up 8. The litter-picking campaign, which ran for three weeks in September, saw a range of events in locations including Regent’s Canal, the surroundings of the Royal London Hospital and Mile End Park. 118 bags of general rubbish and ...