Independent researchers interviewed residents early this year – and found that residents were very happy with the services under Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration. No council services saw a decline in ratings compared to last year’s survey, indicating that Mayor Lutfur ...
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Police raid in Whitechapel
Armed police have this afternoon (22nd July) raided premises in Whitechapel Road. The premises appeared to be in Court Street, a small cul de sac to the north of Whitechapel Road, near the Tube station. Passers by observed nine armed ...
Read More »Cllr Rabina Khan challenges John Biggs: now stand up for safeguarding!
Cllr Rabina Khan will take the lead at tonight’s meeting of Tower Hamlets Council (22nd July) – the first scheduled Council meeting since John Biggs squeaked to victory in the mayoral election – and call on John Biggs to run ...
Read More »Who’s big enough to step into Biggs’s boots?
John Biggs, Member of the Greater London Assembly (GLA) for the City & East constituency, will be stepping down in May 2016. He has been a GLA member since 2000, and will have spent the last year of his GLA ...
Read More »Double standards from Ofsted?
Ofsted – the government agency responsible for inspecting and maintaining standards in schools – has been caught out employing a paedophile. Ofsted Inspector Adam Higgins, 48, of Maypole Close, Saffron Walden in Essex was jailed for two years last week ...
Read More »Andy Erlam demands cash from Lutfur Rahman
The election court may be over – but the ramifications of the case continue. At the end of the case, Mr Mawrey ruled that Mayor Lutfur Rahman pay the legal costs of the four “ordinary voters” (present or past candidates ...
Read More »Practice makes perfect, but future in doubt
GPs from the Limehouse Practice in Gill Street hosted a special meeting with the Rt Hon. Alistair Burt MP, Minister of State for Community and Social Care, on Friday, 3rd July. The Minister was keeping a promise made by the ...
Read More »Ten years on… the Royal London Hospital remembers
Staff at the Royal Lon don Hospital gathered this week to remember those who suffered in the “7/7” bombing ten years ago. A memorial service was held at the place where the entrance to the A&E department had been on ...
Read More »Remembering Srebrenica: Westminster Abbey hosts solemn commemoration memorial
Emdad Rahman A Solemn Commemoration for the UK National Srebrenica Memorial Day has taken place at Westminster Abbey. The memorial service honoured the victims and survivors of Srebrenica. The killing was perpetrated by units of the Army of Republika Srpska ...
Read More »Tory Euro-MP displays disdain for French ferry-workers (and migrants)
In the olden days, Tory governments used to send gun-boats round the world to have a go at people in other countries who were not behaving as the Brits thought they should. These days, not able to afford the gun-boats ...
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