“CURIOUS” is the theme of the annual heritage and creative expression festival that is the Season of Bangla Drama – and playwrights have responded to the challenge in a variety of ways. Let’s ask Mayor Lutfur Rahman to explain why ...

A MASS salmonella outbreak some weeks ago was fairly quickly attributed to “imported eggs”, which were later identified as eggs from Ukraine. These eggs were not usually on general sale, but they were being supplied to the catering industry. British ...

FIFTY YEARS AGO we were humming along to the hits of 1976. Some have magnificently stood the test of time; others have not. Join us on Memory Lane as we review them on their golden anniversaries. This week 50 years ...

CRIME RELATED to mobile phones was the target of a national police operation throughout September. In Tower Hamlets, police joined forces with Tower Hamlets Council’s “Regulatory Service” team to bring local results. As part of the partnership working, neighbourhood police ...

A MOPED driver died in a collision with a car on Thursday, 15th October. The collision occurred on the Lea Bridge Road, near Chatsworth Road, in Hackney, just after 7pm. Now the Metropolitan Police are asking for anyone who witnessed ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council has marked Challenge Poverty Week (12-18th October) by “shining a spotlight” on the wide range of support services it has in place to help residents with the cost of living. The Council has an ongoing commitment to ...

IT WAS just past 2pm on 13th October when the first of six calls came into the London Fire Brigade control centre, reporting a fire in a flat which was part of a terraced house in Westfield Gardens, Romford. Crews ...

THE 90TH anniversary of the battle of Cable Street was marked on 4th October. It was not just an occasion to be nostalgic – it also marked the subsequent history of immigration and growing Tower Hamlets into a harmonious borough. ...

FIREFIGHTERS came to the rescue of residents of a block of flats in Mile End last week when they acted quickly to put out a fire on the second floor of the six-storey block. Firefighters came from Poplar, Millwall, Shadwell ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council has put quite a lot of effort into promoting the events being held by various organisations around the Borough to mark Hate Crime Awareness Week. However, hate speech appears to have crept onto its Facebook page and ...