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Who’s big enough to step into Biggs’s boots?

John Biggs, Member of the Greater London Assembly (GLA) for the City & East constituency, will be stepping down in May 2016. He has been a GLA member since 2000, and will have spent the last year of his GLA ...

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Cllr Khatun & John Biggs praise Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s work – but no name check

Tower Hamlets Council has scooped a prestigious award for its work in preventing counterfeiting. The Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG) Awards are presented for outstanding achievement by individuals, companies or organisations involved in combating counterfeiting and piracy worldwide. ACG represents the ...

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Mayor Lutfur Rahman built highest number of affordable homes in country – official!

Figures released by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) show Tower Hamlets delivered the highest number of affordable homes in the country. Between 2010/11 and 2014/15 – essentially the period of Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration – Tower Hamlets ...

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Rushanara Ali claims lack of support had successful outcome

The idiosyncratic electoral processes of the Labour Party are once more on the march as the Party elects a new leadership team. And for a few days, there was a danger that Bethnal Green & Bow MP Rushanara Ali may ...

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Stepney Green heads for the polls!

Slightly overshadowed by the mayoral election, the voters of Stepney ward will vote in a by-election on 11th June too. There are seven candidates. Stepney was the first area in the country to elect a Respect councillor. The said Cllr ...

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Vote out the Coalition!

Every General Election is important, and tomorrow the nation has the chance to remove from office a Coalition Government which has protected its own at the expense of the many. What are we to put in its place? There’s not ...

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