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Sex Education: Why need to watch this show immediately
16Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Life Style

Sex Education: Why need to watch this show immediately

    Sex Education introduces us to Otis, a socially-awkward and sexually-repressed 16-year-old who lives with his mum, Jean, a sex and relationships therapist. Despite his own lack of experience, Otis winds up inadvertently following in his mum’s footsteps for his schoolmates, after helping someone through a rather mortifying sexual problem with a bit of advice he picked up from his mum. Already a hit with viewers and critics alike, the show has sparked a lot of conversation online, and if you’re yet to tune in, this is why it’s already proved so popular... 1. The aesthetic The first thing we have to say about ‘Sex Education’ is that it looks great. The entire show has a total’ 80s vibe to it (it took us a full 20 minutes into the first episode to realise that it is...
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A budget to build a cleaner, safer and fairer Tower Hamlets
16Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

A budget to build a cleaner, safer and fairer Tower Hamlets

Multi-million funding package for community safety, housing, education, children's services and the environment. Overall a council tax increase in line with inflation and income generation to protect frontline services as supported by a majority of residents following feedback from over 2,000 residents and businesses. Council tax rates expected to remain seventh lowest in London. Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs and his Cabinet have approved the borough's draft three year budget, which is designed to invest in a cleaner, safer and fairer Tower Hamlets and continue to protect residents from the negative impacts of ongoing austerity and government cuts. The budget proposals, subject to further scrutiny from councillors ahead of being formally adopted at next month's special b...
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EU opens door to more talks if May compromises
16Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

EU opens door to more talks if May compromises

    The European Union’s chief Brexit negotiator has opened the door to re-opening talks about the EU and UK’s future relationship if Theresa May ditches some of her negotiating red lines. Speaking the morning after MPs rejected the prime minister’s deal, Michel Barnier said that the European Council unanimously agreed and had always said that if the UK chooses to shift its red lines in the future, and if it makes that choice to be more ambitious and to go beyond a simple free trade agreement, then the EU will be immediately ready to go hand in hand with that development and give a favourable response. Ms May has said she wants to end freedom of movement, leave the single market, customs union, and jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice limiting the scope of her ...
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Funding available for community football
16Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, London

Funding available for community football

16 grants of £500 Mayor's Cup grants on offer. Applications for grants close 18 January. Tower Hamlets residents and community groups have until 18 January to apply for 16 grants of up to £500 to support projects that improve involvement in sport as part of the next round of grants for the Mayor's Cup. The grants pot is raised from the previous year's popular annual football tournament hosted by the Mayor of Tower Hamlets. Applications for the Mayor's Cup grants opened this week. The council is committed to promoting sports and the Mayor's Cup encourages more people to take up football. Shortlisting will take place between 21 and 25 January 2019. The final selection will end with successful applicants being informed during the week ending 1 February 2019. Applicants should...
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Angela Merkel denies giving any assurances to Theresa May
15Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Europe, Featured

Angela Merkel denies giving any assurances to Theresa May

    Angela Merkel has given no extra assurances on Brexit to help Theresa May win a second vote her spokesman has insisted. Reports suggested the German chancellor promised extra concessions once the current deal is rejected by Parliament. Sources told the Sun these could include persuading the Irish Taoiseach Leo Varakkar to agree an end date to the hated Irish backstop. But today a spokesman for the German chancellor rigorously denied any such promises had been made. "The German Chancellor has given no assurances beyond those that were discussed by the European Council in December and what is set out in the letter from (European Commission President)Jean-Claude Juncker and (European Council President) Donald Tusk," said the spokesman. The categorical denial will be...
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Quick vote reaction promised
15Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

Quick vote reaction promised

    MPs will today vote on Theresa May's Brexit deal after she has spent weeks trying to sell it to Parliament despite a fierce backlash. Parliament will decide whether or not to back the Prime Minister's EU exit plans in a vote on Tuesday night. Voting is due to begin at 7pm and could continue for around two hours as Speaker John Bercow has called four amendments before the final meaningful vote on the deal. It follows weeks of fighting in Westminster over Brexit with MPs on all sides of the House of Commons expressing their opposition to Mrs May's deal.
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No Brexit likelier than no deal
14Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, United Kingdom

No Brexit likelier than no deal

    Parliament is more likely to block Britain's exit from the European Union than allow it to crash out without a deal, Theresa May is set to warn as she launches a last-ditch plea to MPs to back her Brexit deal. The Prime Minister will use a speech on the eve of the critical Commons vote on her exit plan to urge MPs to consider the "consequences" of their actions on the faith of British people in democracy. She is expected to reiterate her warning that "catastrophic harm" will be inflicted to trust in politicians if they fail to implement the result of the referendum. With less than 36 hours to go until the long-awaited vote, Mrs May will say, based on last week's Westminster drama, that she now believes MPs blocking Brexit is a more likely outcome than leaving witho...
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Nasa warns of near miss asteroid passing Earth
14Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Technology

Nasa warns of near miss asteroid passing Earth

     A giant asteroid is due to whizz past the Earth in the early hours of this morning as Nasa warns another rock could destroy the planet next century. The asteroid will make an Earth Close Approach" today, passing around two million miles away from our planet that is about eight times the distance to the Moon away. It may seem a lot, but in space terms that is deemed near all the more alarming given its whopping size, as big as 460 feet in diameter, which is considered 'potentially hazardous'. Dubbed Asteroid AG3, it measures around twice the wingspan of a Boeing 747 aeroplane, reports the Express. A NASA report on asteroid dangers reads: Larger Near-Earth Objects greater than 140 meters have the potential to inflict severe damage to entire regions or continents. ...
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Fears for safety of Nissan jobs in UK after sales and profits tumble
13Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Extras, Featured

Fears for safety of Nissan jobs in UK after sales and profits tumble

    Japanese firm Nissan has become the latest car manufacturing giant to publish gloomy sales figures amid concerns about its future in Britain. Turnover at Nissan’s UK business, which is headquartered in Sunderland, fell by £93million last year to £6.3billion while its profits plunged 6.6 per cent to £133million. The automotive behemoth, which employs nearly 8,000 people in the UK, also revealed its car production fell 6.2 per cent to 487,000 vehicles in the year to March 2018. In an interview with The Mail on Sunday last month, Ford’s European boss Steven Armstrong said: If the industry can’t continue to operate competitively, we would have to think about where we continue and how we continue to invest. The firm said it was facing numerous problems, including weake...
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Russia warns UK over foreign military base plans
13Jan By Sumon AdminNo Comments
Featured, Russia

Russia warns UK over foreign military base plans

    Moscow on Friday condemned British plans for military bases in South East Asia and the Caribbean, and warned of retaliation if Russian interests or those of its allies were threatened. Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson told The Telegraph in an interview before the New Year that the UK would ramp up its military presence abroad after Brexit and open two new bases. Whitehall is reportedly considering building the bases in Singapore or Brunei in the South China Sea and in Montserrat or Guyana in the Caribbean. On Friday, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told journalists that Mr Williamson's remarks were destabilising and would lead to the further militarisation of British politics. Meanwhile, Moscow has waged a military campaign to save Bashar As...
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