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A CONTROVERSIAL documentary reportedly dropped by the BBC is to be screened at a major film festival.
Election East by Tower Hamlets film-makers Hazuan Hashim and Phil Maxwell focuses on the highly-charged 2005 General Election campaign in Bethnal Green and Bow.
The War in Iraq, slums in Victorian England, homosexuality, democracy and religion feature in the 50-minute film.
Former Tower Hamlets councillor Mr Maxwell claimed: "Election East was in a commissioning process with the BBC but was dropped for broadcast when we refused to cut coverage of the strong anti-war sentiment that pervaded the campaign, together with an interview with George Galloway.''
But now the production has been chosen for Arabic news network Aljazeera's International Documentary estival from April 23-26 in Doha, Qatar.
Election East follows the campaign of Respect's Mr Galloway, his supporters and opponents. Mr Galloway, who founded anti-war Respect, ousted Labour's Oona King as MP.
Mr Maxwell, 52, said: "The film tracks the anti-war movement and the political landscape of the East End, Galloway asserting his unshaken belief in Catholicism and Oona King describing George Bush as 'the most dangerous man on the planet'.
"Bethnal Green and Bow emerges as more than a microcosm of the UK political scene. Party workers show a resolve and determination fuelled by ideological differences not usually seen in the rest of the UK.''
Mr Maxwell works for Tower Hamlets Council, making educational films. He and partner Mr Hashim, 32, live off Brick Lane and have been working on film projects for 10 years. Mr Hashim specialises in editing and Mr Maxwell in camera work.
BBC producer Amanda Richardson said she and the two film-makers approached a senior executive in the Corporation with a brief compilation tape about Election East but the idea was not pursued.
*George Galloway's attempt to become a chart-topping pop star receives an adrenaline shot to the heart. Back in December, Pandora reported that the Respect MP was to appear in a video - a spoof arrest of Tony Blair - for a new version of Edwin Starr's hit "War", to raise funds for Stop the War.
The song bombed (ahem) on release, but thanks to mobile phone downloads at Saturday's anti-war marches in London and Glasgow, it sits at No 6 in the midweek charts, with 5,500 sales. That's 2,000 more than Justin Timberlake's latest single and almost half as many as Take That's "Shine", the frontrunner.
"We're shocked," says Capital Radio DJ Lucio. "If they can keep the momentum they'll stay inside the top 10 and perhaps go higher, maybe even No 1."
Says Galloway's spokesman: "Gary Barlow better work his arse off over the next few days because we will."
The 10,000 patients of the St Stephen’s Health Centre, Bow, are benefiting from a £600,000 extension bringing new services to the centre.
Tower Hamlets Primary Care Trust has provided the investment to allow the practice to have more consulting, teaching and office space and the practice has extended into the former library at Bow Community Hall.
Dr Soraya Boomla, from the practice, said: “St. Stephen’s has managed to maintain its crucial location in the heart of Bow, right on the Roman Road market, while offering more space for patient care.
“As more services move from hospital to nearer to where people live, thanks to the extension the practice can now expand the services it offers. These will include, for example, more clinics for people with long-term illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and respiratory illnesses.
“The practice is due to start anticoagulation services soon, which will reduce the need for patients on Warfarin, a drug that prevents blood clots, to make frequent hospital trips.
“Working closely with colleagues from the district nursing, health visiting and psychology services based at St Stephen’s will make sure patients get really good, integrated health care close to home,” she said.
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