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CHRISTMAS IS coming – and another two weeks off school for kids large and small. But if your littles are enchanted with lego, why not enter their Christmas competition? The prize is a party for ten legoists at the nearest ...

YIKES! Do you remember the warnings in recent years about not taking too many antibiotics (especially for conditions they cannot cure)? The predicted consequences are here – and London is coming off worst. Antibiotics were a miracle drug. They killed ...

WHAT’S THE biggest moan on the Isle of Dogs? Strictly speaking, we don’t know – we haven’t done a proper survey. But we do know that lots of people are concerned, worried and annoyed by the “boy racer” phenomenon. Young ...

We spoke to Deputy Mayor Cllr Maium Talukdar, Cabinet Member for Education, Youth and Lifelong Learning and councillor for Canary Wharf ward about the women’s takeover of the Tiller Road Be Well Centre. “Lutfur Rahman promised,” said Cllr Talukdar, “and ...

THESE QMW students look happy enough, tinkering about with bits of kit and computers – but they are taking part in projects that could help locals in Tower Hamlets as well as giving a lifeline to populations around the world. ...

CRICKET IS one of the most popular sports in the UK – and Tower Hamlets is the London Borough where that popularity is growing the fastest. It’s welcome news, then, that the Council is creating a natural turf pitch in ...

THE WORLD seems to be full of random refugees. They fled persecution, they suffered a natural disaster, they were attacked in a confict not of their making… There’s many reasons why people have found themselves labelled as “refugee”. There is, ...

THE 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP) is taking place in oil-rich Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, under the slogan “In Solidarity for a Green World”. There’s an even larger climate change project happening on the other side of the world ...

CONVICTED! That’s what has happened to five individuals and two companies who had been letting out flats – using a number of illegal and unfair practices. And it happened after a tireless investigation by Tower Hamlets Council trading standards officers. ...

AFTER YEARS OF campaigning, it looks like politicians are finally acknowledging the need for more housing in the UK – particularly social housing. And after similar years of grassroots campaigning, politicians are also recognising how important – and underfunded – ...