Muhi Mikdad TOWER BRIDGE, that iconic symbol of East London, turned red and green last Thursday, 16th December. The bridge was lit up in the colours of the Bangladeshi flag to mark the 50th anniversary of “Victory Day” in the ...
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The Met: safe in the hands of the high-ups?
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE have today announced the latest step they are taking in their plan to rebuild public trust in the capital’s law enforcement body – which was shattered after the murder of Sarah Everard in March this year. It ...
Read More »Watch Live: Boris on Omicron Covid in UK
BREAKING NEWS: Watch Prime Minister Boris Johnson hold press conference as two cases of new Covid variant Omicron found in Brentwood (Essex) and Nottingham. https://fb.watch/9y7PdC49Qp/ ●Read more stories about the Coronavirus/COVID-19: Coronavirus COVID-19
Read More »Labour complacent as Aspire raise knife crime emergency
Aspire Councillor Kabir Ahmed (Weavers Ward) stood by his decision to take a motion on the knife crime emergency in Tower Hamlets to the Council meeting on Wednesday, 17th November. The motion was based on a petition drafted by Maium ...
Read More »Mayor and Councillors lead Brick Lane clean up!
Md Hamza Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs joined volunteers from the Borough, the Street Cleansing team and Brick Lane Mosque to take part in a community clean up. The Big Clean Up in Brick Lane was an organised lunch activity ...
Read More »RunThrough Lea Valley Velo Park Series
JOIN RUNTHROUGH AT THE LEE VALLEY VELOPARK ON SATURDAY 27TH NOVEMBER 2021 AND RUN A MILE, 5K, 10K, 10 MILE OR HALF MARATHON! The Lee Valley VeloPark’s one mile floodlit road circuit is the perfect course to test yourself over ...
Read More »Why do they always forget the residents?
TONIGHT, The Tuesday Show asks why residents seem to be treated as an inconvenience by any authority trying to redevelop East London or to provide public services. ELN editor Jenny Fisher is joined by two community activists from Lansbury ward ...
Read More »Weapons of Mass Destruction found in East London!
THEY ARE HERE. Hunkered down in the Excel Centre are a shedload of arms dealers – with their models and plans and their displays. Headed towards them is a gaggle of potential mass murderers, wallets at the ready, arming themselves… ...
Read More »Biggs nods to voters’ views as election looms
IT TOOK a by-election loss to persuade Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs to change his mind on one of his key policies. He has only changed it in that it is “paused”, rather than going “full steam ahead” – ...
Read More »Is this a reshuffle or is the house of cards collapsing?
TWO WEEKS AFTER losing the Weavers by-election, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs has announced that he is changing his policy on “liveable streets” and having a Cabinet reshuffle. In very similar press releases, both Tower Hamlets Labour Party and ...
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