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John Biggs has admitted Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s boroughwide 20mph speed limit “will improve road safety for everyone” and his Cabinet Member for the Environment has dubbed the measure “important”. The new limit was introduced after Mayor Lutfur Rahman and his ...

Emdad Rahman The Mayor of Bexley and Lady Teresa Sumption have officially opened Emmaus Greenwich’s new shop in Welling, with speeches and a ribbon cutting ceremony. The shop is staffed by formerly homeless people, known as companions, and will create ...

First, the good news: East London charity The Spitalfields Crypt Trust has received a donation of furniture from housing association L&Q. The Trust, which celebrates its 50th birthday this year, provides a variety of services for over 150 recovering and ...

Mayor Lutfur Rahman made a point of standing up for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents. He was the first Mayor of Tower Hamlets to mention LGBT residents in his inauguration speech, and his Administration backed a number of ...

The AJ Bell London Triathlon will take place over the weekend of 8-9th August: and, like the London marathon, it will affect East London roads from Rotherhithe to Becton at various points over the weekend. Some roads will be totally ...

Emdad Rahman The Lower Regents Coalition (LRC), a group of volunteers based in Tower Hamlets, has reached the finals of the Canal & River Trust’s Living Waterways Awards, which recognises the most inspiring waterway-based projects across the UK. The LRC has been nominated for its Greening the Regents project, ...

The Tower Hamlets Arts and Music Education Service (THAMES) delivered a fantastic programme of summer events this year. The free music events have not only impressed audiences in Tower Hamlets but the wider East End too. Shoreditch Church hosted the ...

Tower Hamlets marked the first ever annual Memorial Day to remember victims of honour based violence last week with a number of installation events outside the borough’s Idea Stores. The council’s Domestic Violence and Hate Crime organised the Day to ...

Things are looking up for Swan Housing Association. The controversial social landlord suffered a setback in late 2012 when it was found that some of their employees had committed fraud by falsifying documents in order to claim a government grant ...

•There are mixed feelings in hearing that the Big Lottery Fund* has announced that it will be making awards to over 60 projects in London through its Awards For All and Reaching Communities programmes. On the one hand, this is ...