Tower Hamlets’ employment rate is the highest it’s been for the borough since recording began in 2004. The figures, provided quarterly from the Annual Population Survey, show that 68.1% of the borough’s population are currently in employment – a 4.2% ...
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Mayor praises the proportion of students who go to university
The future is bright for students from Tower Hamlets after Government figures showed an impressive proportion of the borough’s sixth-form leavers go on to university. The Department for Education released figures on 27th January showing the destination of Key Stage ...
Read More »Zero Tolerance on FGM Day!
Community groups in East London are taking a stance against female genital mutilation (FGM). The Ocean Somali Community Association and Tower Hamlets Council are co-hosting a conference to mark International Zero Tolerance on Female Genital Mutilation Day on Friday, 6th ...
Read More »It’s “time to talk” about mental health
Tower Hamlets Council will be encouraging everyone to take “time to talk” on 5th February to get more people talking about mental health than ever before. This is part of a campaign, led by national charity Time to Change, which ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers working against gangs
Nineteen gang members have been given injunctions for a variety of offences thanks to evidence provided by Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (THEOs) around Wyllen Close, E1. Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (THEOs) are a uniformed council service formed in September 2009, ...
Read More »The man who surfed the Turf
Emdad Rahman reviews Jimmy Adamson: The man who said “no” to England Sir Bobby Charlton described Jimmy Adamson as a “tall, slim, elegant player who to my astonishment never played for England.” Adamson is Burnley’s greatest ever player. He was ...
Read More »Young Mayor election inspires record turnout
Deng Yan San has been elected as Tower Hamlets’ next Young Mayor. She won 2,663 of the votes cast in the record turnout of 71.95%. A total of 10,775 votes were cast for the 14 candidates in the polling stations ...
Read More »Residents decide on health and wellbeing in community
More than 60 residents from the Old Bethnal Green estate came together last month at the Minerva community centre to voice ideas on how to improve health and wellbeing in the area. The meeting was part of the Old Bethnal ...
Read More »Three down… but umpteen more to go
Day one: and three victims are off the hook. We cannot stress enough that all political parties which stood candidates in last May’s mayoral and councillor elections signed an election protocol before nominations closed. Under its terms, they agreed to ...
Read More »The court case Labour wouldn’t openly back…
It started today – but already all charges against one of the Defendants have been dropped. After last May’s mayoral election, four individual Tower Hamlets electors petitioned the election court, claiming that Lutfur Rahman could not have won the election ...
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