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    The Duchess of Cambridge has given birth to a girl, Kensington Palace has announced. The daughter for Prince William and Kate arrived at 8.34am on Saturday. She is the fourth in line to the throne and the Queen’s fifth great-grandchild. She will be the first to take the title of princess for 25 years and will also be the highest ranking female in line to the throne. A girl has not been born this high up the line of succession for nearly 65 years, since Princess Anne was born. The duchess was admitted to the private Lindo Wing of St Mary’s hospital, west London, two and a half hours earlier in the early stages of labour. The newborn was delivered far quicker then her first child – Prince George took more than 10 hours to be born. The birth was overseen by a medical team le...

    After removed ex Mayor Lutfur Rahman, The Borough of Tower hamlets declared a new mayoral election going to be held on 11 Jun 2015. The resident of Borough will be nominated a new elected Mayor for next rest of term. The Tower hamlets first political team has introduced a new Mayor candidate Cllr Rabina Khan who is nominated and will be replaced to ex Mayor Lutfur Rahman. As Mr. Rahman has gather a programme at Mile end road Banquting hall in East London for update and announced to vote Cllr Khan as Mayor of Tower Hamlets on 11 June. Rabina Khan is an independent Politician, Writer and Campaigner. She has a wealth of experience campaigning on issues of equality and diversity, both through activism and creativity. Her particular focus has been on challenging perceptions ...

Former Tower Hamlets mayor, who was banned from office over vote-rigging, buying votes and religious intimidation, gets backing from UK’s biggest union. Lutfur Rahman, the former Tower Hamlets mayor, is understood to be considering whether to pursue a judicial review of the decision to remove him from office. Photograph: Graeme Robertson The leader of Britain’s biggest trade union has expressed his support for the former mayor of Tower Hamlets, east London, who was removed from office after being found guilty of electoral fraud. Len McCluskey, the general secretary of Unite, Labour’s biggest donor, gave his backing on Thursday to Lutfur Rahman, who was dismissed after a court ruling last week. The intervention, at a rally for the ousted mayor, will cause some discomfort for Labour, who...

Supporters of Lutfur Rahman, kicked out of office in London borough, reject claims of wrongdoing and blame bias and inaccuracies in court judgment Britain’s first directly elected Muslim mayor, forced to step down after a judge found him guilty of corrupt and illegal practices. is to challenge the decision through the courts. In a statement on his website today, Lutfur Rahman said that the election court ruling which kicked him out of office as Tower Hamlets mayor was marred by bias, slurs and inaccuracies. Any legal challenge by Rahman will not stop a rerun of the borough’s election, due to be held on 11 June. He will be banned from taking part, but his party, Tower Hamlets First, is expected to put up a candidate. The statement reads: “Lutfur Rahman will be appealing the judgment mad...

    A palace aide explains that when the hotly anticipated baby is finally born at St. Mary's Hospital in London, first a press release will be sent out to members of the media covering the story, then an electronic message will be going out via the Twitter handle @KensingtonRoyal "a couple of minutes later." Tradition won't be completely bucked, however, as the print version of the announcement will still eventually be posted on the easel in front of the Palace—just in time for onlookers to take selfies with. So when is this royal birth happening, you ask? The Telegraph reports that Kate's due date was Thursday, April 23 making her already four days overdue, and if Royal Baby #2 waits any longer, the Duchess of Cambridge just may be induced. A source whose children were also...

    A superbug has closed a ward at the hospital where Prince William and Kate’s second baby is due to be born. A surgical unit at St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, has been shut down after eight patients were infected with potentially deadly CPE (carbapenemase producing enterobacteriaceae). The Duchess of Cambridge is nearing her due date and is expected to return to the hospital’s exclusive Lindo Wing to give birth to the fourth in line to the throne. But the 20-bed Zachary Cope ward, specialising in vascular surgery, has been out of action since April 15, the Sunday People can reveal. A source said: “There is a massive deep-clean operation going on. There’s no suggestion it could spread to other units but it couldn’t be worse timing.” Three affected patients developed s...

John Rees from the Stop the War Coalition, argues that the dismissal of Tower Hamlet’s first-elected Muslim Mayor Lutfur Rahman yesterday was outrageous. The Tower Hamlets electoral fraud trial was a political event from the beginning. Indeed, everything you need to know about the decision of High Court Judge Richard Mawrey to declare void the election of Britain’s first Muslim Mayor is contained in his summary judgement. In it he said that Muslims in Tower Hamlets are “not a real minority” because, apparently, there are so many of them in the borough. Like the rest of his remarks it will fuel every racist stereotype that has ever been uttered about Tower Hamlets, and it will legitimise the long and disgraceful war by Tories, Lib-Dems and the local Labour Party to stop the rise of Bangl...