JOHN BIGGS, veteran politician and Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has stopped short of endorsing Apsana Begum – chosen by Tower Hamlets Labour Party members to be Labour’s candidate at the next General Election. Members had been patient with some ...
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Poplar & Limehouse Labour selects new candidate
THE LABOUR PARTY members of Poplar & Limehouse Constituency Labour Party (CLP) have spoken. They came, they queued, they listened, they queued some more – and then they voted. There were over 500 of them, and they chose Apsana Begum ...
Read More »Will Bangladeshis unite behind one candidate?
IT IS almost a “tale of two Johns” as Labour Party members in Poplar & Limehouse constituency head for their hustings meeting this afternoon. The members will be choosing who will be the Labour Party candidate at the next General ...
Read More »When sport is fun, not competition
A CITY-WIDE initiative in Birmingham is helping to revive the notion that sport, even competitive sport, can be about co-operation, not confrontation. It is linking together young people in 20 of the city’s schools. Birmingham Connect is run by the ...
Read More »Two mayors bridge the gap
TWO EAST LONDON mayors – John Biggs from Tower Hamlets and Rokhsana Fiaz from Newham – have met up to mark the opening of a new pedestrian bridge which links their two boroughs. The bridge cost £593,000 – that’s thought ...
Read More »Meals on Wheels cut: mystery deepens
WHY HAS Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs ordered the closure of the Council Meals on Wheels Service, which provides meals to vulnerable adults? Service users and community activists have been raising concerns about what will happen when the service ...
Read More »New players join the Lions
THE LONDON LIONS have added 6’2” crack defender Jules Dang-Akodo to their team – and import from City Royals, where he spent last season. Jules has a recent history of playing at international level – which has taken him to ...
Read More »Sam Tarry wins Ilford South re-run
LABOUR PARTY members in the Ilford South constituency have chosen Sam Tarry to be their candidate at the next General Election. The selection is subject to endorsement by Labour’s National Executive Committee (NEC), which is thought to be a formality. ...
Read More »Biggs cuts Meals on Wheels for vulnerable adults
SUPPORT FOR vulnerable adults in Tower Hamlets is again being reduced as Executive Mayor John Biggs wields the axe on Meals on Wheels. It is understood that the service will end just before the end of the financial year, in ...
Read More »Sounds on Sunday: 50 of 50/17
WHAT WERE WE listening to 50 years ago? Here’s a short series on the hits of 1969 – two years after the Summer of Love, the year that humans landed on our moon, the last year of the 1960s. It ...
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