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Maruf Ahmed TWO DEMONSTRATIONS are being held this week in support of striking workers who clean British Airways offices – and receive the legal minimum in pay. British Airways have offices at Heathrow, and they employ OCS, a facilities services ...

REDBRIDGE LABOUR Councillor Sam Gould, who represented Hainult ward, has resigned from the Council – after admitting two counts of indecent exposure at a hearing at Barkingside Magistrates Court last week. Gould, from Hornchurch, had earlier been sacked from his ...

AFTER 25 years, pop band Five are back with a new tour – Keep On Movin’ 2025. And the group has just announced that they are adding more dates to the run. Five were formed in 1997. They sold 20 ...

A “PEOPLE’S BUDGET” has been passed by Tower Hamlets Council on Wednesday, 26th February, after nearly three hours of debate. This was the third budget proposed by Mayor Lutfur Rahman since he was elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, for the ...

Jamal Ahmed, widely recognised as the “King of Data Protection,” has been ranked #1 in the UK and #2 Worldwide for Privacy and IP Law by Favicon and has also been named among the Top 100 Most Influential People in ...

ALL COUNCILS are equal – but, under Starmer’s Labour Government, some are more equal than others. The cash-strapped Government that had to axe the Winter Fuel Allowance for pensioners has found funds for a selective cash bailout to some failing ...

IT WAS unprecedented. Tower Hamlets Councillors united, almost to a person, to stop the Council’s pension fund investing in companies involved in the arms trade. The Council and its employees both contribute a small sum to a pension fund each ...

AN EXECUTIVE MAYOR is accountable to the public who elected them, rather than to the Council. Nonetheless, the Mayor is alloted six minutes every meeting to address the Council. That’s about half an hour a year, or two hours each ...

AT LAST! Tower Hamlets Council’s Children’s Services has been awarded an “outstanding” rating, following an inspection by Ofsted at the end of last year. And Labour stalwarts tried to claim the credit. The Council meeting on 22nd January began with ...

THERE WAS a `businesslike start to the January meeting of Tower Hamlets Council on what was a cold winter’s night. Inside the Chamber, all was somber, with almost everyone dressed in dark colours. Only the Speaker introduced a splash of ...