Newham News

Newham Mayor’s poverty warning
Newham Mayor Sir Robin Wales has issued a warning about the Government’s plans to redefine poverty.

Grime artist performs at Newham College
Students at Newham College got their new common room off to a grimey start when they invited a local superstar MC to attend the ribbon cutting ceremony.

Newham communities get to focus on health services
Newham residents have for the first time formed part of a panel to help review the borough’s health service commissioning strategy plan for next year.

Newham hospital hosts public diversity event
Residents, patients, staff and visitors are invited to come along to a celebration event, as part of Diversity Week, next Wednesday at Newham General Hospital.

Newham patients can surf the web in hospital
Patients and visitors to Newham General Hospital can now surf the web during their visit, following the go live of WIFI throughout the hospital.

Baseball Hall to begin drug education program
The Baseball Hall of Fame is starting a drug education program for students and young adults — in the same year Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and Sammy Sosa will appear on ballot for the first time after careers tainted by steroid accusations.

Olympic official defends Spain after Contador ban
The head of Spain's Olympic committee stepped up to defend Spanish sport Wednesday in the wake of two-time Tour de France champion cyclist Alberto Contador's two-year ban for doping.

Potential Olympic ski champs set for Sochi test
Potential candidates for Olympic downhill gold in 2014 will put their technical and gliding skills to the test when they tackle the men's course for the first time in competition Wednesday.

More evidence big football players face heart risks
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Pro football players may generally enjoy a longer-than-average lifespan -- but the biggest players may be more likely than others to die of heart disease, a U.S. study suggests. The study, reported in the American Journal of Cardiology, followed more than 3,400 NFL players who were active between 1959 and 1988. It found that 334 had died by 2007 -- only about half the ...

Women's Softball May Return to 2020 Olympics: A Female's Reaction
In 2005, the International Olympic Committee made the shocking decision to remove both baseball and women's softball from the Olympics. The decision to remove softball, a sport typically played by women, left female softball players across the world shocked, devastated and...