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It’s Tower Hamlets first, as the borough’s Health and Wellbeing Board is the first such Board to support the “Halve It” coalition. The move has been warmly welcomed by health campaigners and lesbian and gay activists alike as a move ...

Just as control of development in a large part of our borough was taken away by Margaret Thatcher in the 1980s, so too David Cameron has given huge chunks of planning powers to an unelected and unaccountable body. Even the ...

Mike Marqusee, an author who combined a passion for sport with an equally strong devotion to equality, died on 13th January in St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney. Born in the USA, Mike came to the UK to go to university ...

G4S provides security systems for major Israeli prisons and detention centres, which hold Palestinian political prisoners from occupied Palestinian territory inside Israel. Human rights organisations have documented systematic torture and ill treatment of Palestinian prisoners, including child prisoners, detained within ...

So it’s out with 2014: a year which Madge the Queen chose to describe as a year of “reconciliation” in her Christmas speech to the nation. Perhaps there’s been a bit of reconciling in Sandringham this year – but there’s ...

As the year draws to a close, yet another one of our young citizens has had his life ended before his time by hatred turning into mindless violence – and we are left asking how it is that we have ...

The British Curry Awards reached their milestone tenth birthday on 1st December with a star-studded awards ceremony at the Battersea Evolution. The event was packed with over 1,700 representatives of the curry sector of the catering industry and its celebrity ...

Mayor Lutfur Rahman gave his report to the Council (the Council voted, after he was elected, that he should have five minutes to report to each Council meeting).  Mayor Rahman went briefly through the “Pickles process”, pointing out that the ...

21.16  Kathy McTasney said there had been many rumours and fingers being pointed: which organisations receive mainstream funding, and is it just Bengladeshi and Somali groups?  Cllr Chowdhury said that funding was given out in response to need.  Most funding ...

20.10  Let’s start a new page.  The Council has just voted to take a petition from “Save our Nurseries” – an extra one.  Why they feel they should take a second petition on nurseries, given that they previously cut the ...