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TODAY WE continue with our occasional series The Thames today. The Thames forms the southern boundary of four East London boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Havering. In one way it is a barrier, sealing off one direction ...

OVER 200,000 anti-Covid vaccinations were undertaken across the UK over the Christmas break – with Redbridge Town Hall dishing out the highest number of vaccinations of any site in the country. In London, 54,307 vaccinations – including 3,478 first doses ...

TODAY WE continue with our occasional series The Thames today. The Thames forms the southern boundary of four East London boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Havering. In one way it is a barrier, sealing off one direction ...

IT’S THREE CHEERS for London’s NHS as it announces that a record number of anti-Covid vaccinations have been carried out in the last week. The service has delivered 650 booster/third dose vaccines in a week. The number of booster/third doses ...

EAST LONDON COUNCILS are busy with their annual task of planning when rubbish will be collected from residential areas over the holiday period – and they are already announcing arrangements to dispose of Christmas trees when the festivities are over. ...

Emdad Rahman Civil rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who worked with Dr Martin Luther King in the 1960s, has paid a visit to the East End, where he spent an afternoon with teachers, students and parents at the London ...

LONDON COUNCILS are ready to grit London’s roads if (when?) icy weather hits the capital. They are keeping tuned to the weather forecast, while all their vehicles are ready to hit – sorry, “grit” – the streets and pavements. All ...

THIS CHRISTMAS will be a little bit brighter for some residents in need on the Isle of Dogs. The Island Network was out in force over the weekend, delivery Christmas parcels to elderly and vulnerable residents. The hampers were sponsored ...

Muhammad Ismael THE #LITTLELITTERLEAGUE has launched a new neighbourhood litter pickers group in Leys, Dagenham East – and instantly achieved a new milestone during their very first activity.  The residents group debuted at Tyrell Gardens, Leys Children’s Centre, and collected 700 ...

Muhammad Talha BOOKBIKE LONDON Team Captain Emdad Rahman is celebrating after reaching the milestone of sharing 5,000 free books.  The humble project started with a book donated by his dad and a bike donated by an anonymous cyclist from the ...