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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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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Trouble comes in threes for Labour’s Biggs

They say that trouble comes in threes – and the last weekend of the campaign to be mayor of Tower Hamlets saw Labour red-faced over three incidents as they made their third attempt to take the Town Hall’s top post. ...

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Ten hopefuls line up in race for Mayor

Twenty-four hours after nominations closed, Tower Hamlets Council has announced the list of candidate in the coming election for mayor of Tower Hamlets. The leading two contenders are Cllr Rabina Khan and John Biggs AM. Cllr Khan has been Cabinet ...

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