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2:16 PM February 26, 2021
L-R: Mohammed Jahan, 22, was sentenced to four years while Saidul Islam, 24, was sentenced to 21 months at Maidstone Crown Court on Thursday, February 25.
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Four county lines drug dealers who sold heroin and crack cocaine have been jailed.
Mohammed Jahan of Glengall Grove, Cubitt Town, and Saidul Islam of Diss Street, Shoreditch, along with Vincent Griffin of Westgate-on-Sea and Andrew Evans of Brighton, were part of the Youngz and Smokey networks.
They supplied Class A drugs to towns in Kent between January and August last year, but were stopped after raids in east London, Chatham, Thanet and Brighton.
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MP Apsana Begum is fighting to stop library closures
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The battle to save East End public libraries from being closed down by Tower Hamlets Council is going to Parliament.
A motion is being tabled in the Commons on Wednesday, February 17, by Poplar and Limehouse MP Apsana Begum.
Youngsters campaign to stop Tower Hamlets Council making library cuts at Bethnal Green
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“Libraries face their greatest crisis since the Second World War,” she said in a statement to the
East London Advertiser. “People on low-income suffer the brunt with children from deprived backgrounds losing desperately-needed support outside the classroom.”
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5:00 PM December 18, 2020
Children at Cubitt Town Infants School on the Isle of Dogs have benefitted from a scheme which aims to ensure all schoolchildren have access to the necessary technology for learning.
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An Isle of Dogs primary school was the first to benefit from a partnership aimed at ensuring schoolchildren have access to the technology they need to learn.
Year 2 pupils at Cubitt Town Infants School received iPads as part of a collaboration between social enterprise TechInclusionUK and the Tower Hamlets Education Partnership (THE Partnership).
The emergence of remote learning - brought about by coronavirus - has heightened the risk of a technological gap. This reality is what prompted TechInclusionUK s founder, Rich Clensy, to go down this road: We spoke to teachers about their experience when schools were closed; many said they spent a lot of time printing off education packs.