With the day of the elections getting very close (it’s just next Thursday, 22nd May), East London residents are being urged to get ready to use their right to vote – and to be sure they complete the ballot papers ...

Postal votes started to come into Tower Hamlets Town Hall this week as voting gets underway for the elections taking place on Thursday, 22nd May. Stringent security checks are being carried out, with every postal voting statement scanned to ensure ...

All candidates at a packed election hustings meeting held on Monday in the Royal Docks area of Newham expressed opposition to any further expansion of London City Airport.  The meeting, organized by HACAN East (the body which represents residents under ...

Harry Palmer looks at Lutfur Rahman’s policy record. There are many reasons to wish Lutfur Rahman success in this coming election. But there is greater national significance beyond just its effects in Tower Hamlets. It was 20 years ago this ...

ELN has long argued that the mayoral election in Tower Hamlets should be decided by policy differences: let’s look at how the two candidates shape up on housing policy. Rahman makes it clear his priority is supply. That’s a sensible ...

Well, here we are; three and a half years later, and it doesn’t seem like five minutes since 300 people stood on a frosty Old Ford Road at gone 2am one Friday morning in October 2010 and cheered their heads ...

Friday’s our day off in East London News: and what better way to spend it, given that it is the last Friday of the election campaign, than touring the Borough’s mosques to get the last minute vibes? Imagine our surprise, ...

ISSUE 01/25 ————— The new issue of EastLondonNews is now ready. You can browse the latest copy online. Use the link below to direct you to the website and simply click the front page of the paper to view full ...

One of the reasons why the number of people employed in the UK has gone up is that as it’s so hard to get a decent full-time job, people are having to do two or three part-time jobs to make ...

Faisana: Fashion Weekend wows UK audiences with the crème of Indian and Pakistani design talent Preview by Hasina Momtaz Last Friday evening I was lucky enough to be invited to the celebrity red carpet launch of Faisana: Fashion Weekend and ...