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Roman Road will host its inaugural cultural extravaganza next week – the highest-profile activity to be supported by a new Tower Hamlets Council initiative which puts power in the hands of residents. The Roman Road Festival will showcase heritage, entertainment ...

England captain Steven Gerrard may boast a £3.9m mansion but it’s a far cry from the modest home he grew up in on a tough council estate in Liverpool. Gerrards Lane in Merseyside and Gerrard Street in London may both ...

The Coalition Government is trying to run down social housing in favour of using public money to subsidise private renting deals – keeping house prices high enough to avoid another immediate recession. They have put all sorts of restrictions on ...

Murad Qureshi, a Labour member of the Greater London Assembly, visited Palestine in early June. He saw first hand how the Israeli Government treats Palestinian people. It is little wonder that many commentators are now calling the Israeli regime the ...

Young people who are not in education, employment or training can benefit from some expert advice this week on Thursday (26th June) as businesses and organisations come together for the “MyFuture” careers event. Why the event has been branded “MyFuture” ...

Dear ELN, Here at the London Assembly we are doing some work to find out more about how Londoners access their GP. As a London-wide Assembly Member I am particularly interested to hear the views of the Bangladeshi community across ...

As the weather heats up, so too does festival season in Tower Hamlets – and this year promises to be a scorcher with the Boishakhi Mela in Victoria Park on Sunday, 22nd June. The Boishakhi Mela is the largest Bengali ...

BBC London radio personality Eddie Nestor hit the streets of Tower Hamlets today (Tuesday, 17th June) with Mayor Lutfur Rahman on a whistle stop tour to see the real Tower Hamlets. Eddie visited the council’s flagship regeneration schemes including Poplar ...

With Ramadan fast approaching, the Barts Health Diabetes Care Centre is holding a series of advice sessions to encourage safe fasting across Tower Hamlets. The main risk for anyone who fasts is hypoglycaemia (or “hypo” for short), which is when ...

Just before Christmas 2012, 6,661 Comet staff were sacked when the administrator Deloitte announced the closure of the company, including all 195 stores, offices and distribution centres. Shopworkers union Usdaw took out a case at the Leeds Employment Tribunal on ...