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101-year-old local hero takes Covid vaccine

Tower Hamlets resident and local hero, 101-year-old Dabirul Islam Choudhury OBE has received his first dose of the Covid-19 vaccine and urged others to take it as well. Inspired by Captain Sir Tom Moore, Mr Choudhury raised over £400,000 for charity by walking 970 laps of his communal garden – this was while he fasting during Ramadan in April and …

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Video emerges of father and son hit by car in Whitechapel on Sunday

On Sunday 8th May 2016 at around midday the police and paramedic service were called to Whitechapel Road after reports of a collision involving a car and two pedestrians, a 40-year-old man and his four-year-old son. Please see the video of the incident below caught on local CCTV. WARNING FOOTAGE MAY DISTRESS SOME VIEWERS! A spokesperson for the police said …

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Mayor Biggs joins performance in remembrance of Altab Ali

Swadhinata Trust presented The Altab Ali Story at the Brady Arts Centre in Whitechapel on the 4th May, the anniversary of the death of Altab Ali who was murdered in a racist attack. The play tells the true and terrible story about that day nearly four decades ago and it subsequent impact. After the performance that commemorated the death of …

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Man jumps of tower block, you never guess what happen next!

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