Following the success of the Mayor’s Cup Tournament in 2014, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, is inviting teams to apply to take part in the prestigious competition, now in its fifth year. The 11-a-side tournament will take place ...
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Ever thought about fostering?
Tower Hamlets Council is appealing for people to come forward and find out about becoming a foster parent. The council currently has 115 fostering households on its books, but it is always looking for more recruits. In particular it needs ...
Read More »What are your priorities?
Tower Hamlets residents have just one more week to give the council and its partners their views on the borough’s priorities for the next five years. The Tower Hamlets Community Plan sets out the way in which the borough’s public, ...
Read More »Students see Shakespeare
Over 270 students from five schools in Tower Hamlets have free tickets to Shakespeare’s Globe on Bankside to see a thrilling production of Othello set in the First World War, specially created for 11 to 18 year olds. For many, ...
Read More »Godspell tour opens at Hackney Empire
Tickets are on sale now for Godspell In Concert, the legendary rock musical from Stephen Schwartz. This well loved musical will be returning to the UK’s stages this year in a tour which opens at the Hackney Empire at Easter ...
Read More »What a good Day!
Emdad Rahman reports: A packed York Hall saw unbeaten Camden boxer Ben Day lift his very first professional belt. Day is trained by the veteran Alec Wilkey and his unstoppable body shot early in the bout left the fight strategies ...
Read More »Wallies don trainers to promote reading among London’s children
There’s still time to sign up for the National Literacy Trust’s Where’s Wally?-themed fun run taking place on Sunday, 22nd March. Places are still available for runners, book-lovers and families to dress up like a Wally and walk, jog or ...
Read More »Hope & Knowledge gear up for moon ride
Emdad Rahman Hope & knowledge, in association with the Ummah Welfare Trust, are taking part in a night ride to raise money and awareness for the Rohingya people of Burma. The team hopes to complete the moon ride from Cambridge ...
Read More »It’s not “over” yet!
Tower Hamlets Cricket Development Officer Jahid Ahmed took his U13 District team to Lords Cricket Ground on Sunday, to mix it with the elite of London Cricket – and they came within a whisker of pulling off a major upset. ...
Read More »People call for action on Barts deficit
The Barts NHS Trust has revealed that it has amassed a stonking deficit – and local pro-NHS campaigners are blaming the costly PFI deal which financed the new Royal London Hospital. The Trust seems to be resorting to desperate measures ...
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