Advice and info from the BHF An estimated seven million people are living with cardiovascular disease in the UK. The British Heart Foundation has information about heart conditions, healthy eating and exercise. Bin the January blues The London Comedy Film Festival runs at venues across London this week from January 22-25. http://locofilmfestival.com News News in brief Have a giggle at comedy film fest RESIDENTS are invited to chase away the winter blues by attending a comedy film festival event on Sunday, January 25. Poplar Film is hosting the Local Comedy Film Festival (LOCO) in association with the British Film Institute. It will feature five specially commissioned shorts, six short films from LOCO’s selected shortlist followed by a discussion, and screening of the film East is East. The screening, for adults only, is taking place at Spotlight Youth Centre, 30 Hay Currie Street, Poplar. Doors open at 2.30pm for a 3.30pm start. Tickets cost £5-£9, with discounts available for concessions and local residents. Visit www.poplarfilm presents.com Irish tea dance A COMMUNITY organisation, which is aiming to build connections with Irish residents in Tower Hamlets, will host an Irish tea dance on Friday, January 23. The dance, from 1-3.30pm at St Matthias Community Centre, 113 Poplar High Street, will feature live music, tea and a raffle. All are welcome. For further information call 7987 0257 or visit www.neigh boursinpoplar.com ‘Our world crumbled; our perfect little girl was ill’ Sophia Button, whose mum Rebekah is raising money for research into infant heart disease scans, the prodding and poking.” She added: “This is still an ongoing battle. We have avoided surgery so far, but no one can understand the devastation a parent can feel on finding out there is something wrong with your little one unless you go through it yourself.” The dedicated mum is urging residents to support her appeal to help fund research, nurses and respite facilities. The quiz night with a raffle will be held at The Artful Dodger pub in Royal Mint Street, If you love someone say it with East End Life in association with... Free Valentine’s Message! East End Life in association with Regents Lake Banqueting Venue, are offering you the chance to place a FREE Valentine’s message of not more than 20 words. It will appear in our Valentine’s Special, published on Monday 9th February 2015. Send your Valentine’s message by post to: Valentine’s Messages, East End Life, Town Hall, Mulberry Place, 5 Clove Crescent, London E14 2BG or Fax: 020 7364 4384, Tel: 020 7364 4682 or email: terri.gornall@towerhamlets.gov.uk Messages received after 1pm on Friday 30th January 2015 will not appear. Bow Wharf 221 Grove Road London E3 5SN www.regentslake.co.uk info@regentslake.co.uk Tel: 020 7998 9455 Regents Lake Banqueting Venue Proud to sponsor your V alentines messages! Tower Hill on Friday, February 6 at 7.30pm. Local companies have donated prizes and proceeds will go to the BHF. Visit www.facebook.com/ events/1538119833141632 or go to www.justgiving.com/ rebekah-button to donate. 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Rebekah Button, 26, is also training for two separate 5k runs, one in aid of the British Heart Foundation (BHF) and one for Great Ormond Street Hospital, which her daughter Sophia, now 18 months, attends for consultant appointments. “Sophia was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease (CHD) at just six weeks old. There are many forms of CHD and unfortunately Sophia’s type (pulmonary stenosis) can’t be traced until the child is born and begins to develop,” said Rebekah, who lives in Jamaica Street. “Upon finding out, our world felt as though it was crumbling around us. Our perfect little girl was ill and there was nothing we could do to change that. Then began the arduous hospital appointments, the Cash for end of life care ST Joseph’s Hospice near Bethnal Green is one of seven UK organisations to receive a share of £800,000 from the government’s Social Action End of Life Fund to tackle loneliness and isolation. The £130,000 funding will enable the hospice to run its Compassionate Neighbours, East London project, using volunteers to develop social networks in the Bengali community in Tower Hamlets and other communities in Hackney and Newham. Michael Kerin, hospice chief executive, said the funding would support people to remain as independent as possible when facing the end of their lives. “The scheme will also help to make hospice care better known among communities in these areas who don’t traditionally access our services,” he said. To find out more about volunteering for the scheme, call 8525 6000 or visit www.stjh.org.uk Pioneering DNA study BARTS Health NHS Trust is among six London hospital trusts which are launching a pioneering study using patient’s DNA to create personalised treatment for people with cancer and rare diseases. Patients at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, and across the trust, will be offered the opportunity to provide blood samples for genetic analysis. Scientists hope that looking at the data on such a large scale will reveal common conditions and symptoms that could be associated with particular human DNA, and could help explain why some patients may respond to treatment, while others may not. It is believed that the ethnic diversity of patients in east London – where the trust’s six hospitals are based – will prove particularly useful in the project’s findings. Professor Finbarr Cotter, clinical director for pathology at Barts Health, said: “This is a great opportunity to revolutionise the care of our patients. “From this project, we will start to unravel the real basis of cancer and rare diseases, and begin to use advanced DNA analysis to improve the diagnosis and treatment options for patients.” 19 – 25 JANUARY 2015 N E W S F R O M TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL AND YOUR COMMUNITY 3
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