John Biggs is to reveal his Cabinet at tonight’s reconvened AGM of Tower Hamlets Council – but BD News 24 is reporting who the Cabinet will be. Expected Cabinet John Biggs has already announced that instead of having just one ...
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Whitechapel traffic chaos set to last all summer
Traffic chaos raged through the Whitechapel area last week – and the bad news is that it is set to go on till September. The traffic situation was already bad due to the Transport for London (TfL) roadworks that stretch ...
Read More »Cllr Peter Golds caught up in email scam
Cllr Peter Golds has become one of the latest victims of the “I am stranded and need money” email scam. The scam involves hackers taking over the victim’s email account and sending out an email to everyone in their address ...
Read More »Urgent: act now to help save Limehouse GP Practice
The Coalition Government made changes to the way in which GP surgeries are funded. As a result, Tower Hamlets was threatened with the loss of five surgeries – at a time when GPs are busier than ever. News has just ...
Read More »Biggs welcomes Michelle Obama – but doesn’t notice Bangladeshi press exclusion
As Michelle Obama, First Lady of the USA, and her two daughters visited Mulberry School today, John Biggs made one of his first press statements as the Mayor of Tower Hamlets. John Biggs gushed: “It’s fantastic that the First Lady ...
Read More »John Biggs and the missing Labour votes
The predominant emotion in the Labour Party campaign when they woke up on Friday morning (or maybe even Friday afternoon) was probably not elation so much as relief. Although John Biggs won the Tower Hamlets mayoral election, he lost a large ...
Read More »Waiting for a four-bedroomed home? All you need is £1.2 million…
Eco World Ballymore has launched the second phase of “London City Island”. They are going to build two blocks of flats which will contain 417 new homes of various sizes (one to four bedrooms, and “suites”, which appears to be ...
Read More »Labour: this was no walk in the park
The last weekend of the mayoral election campaign in Tower Hamlets saw questions being raised about how the Labour Party came to use a public park for a “campaign event”. Either the Party had hired Altab Ali Park (which would ...
Read More »Mayoral Manifestos Part 2: If I can smash the glass ceiling, so can you!
Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the mayoral campaign explaining that standing for election as Mayor of Tower Hamlets is a big step for her – but it could be a step forward for women across ...
Read More »Mayoral Manifestos Part 1: Biggs pledges to hold more public meetings
While Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the campaign concentrating on how to create more jobs for unemployed women, Labour candidate John Biggs (a Member of the London Assembly) is working hard on getting a second job ...
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