Politics

HUNDREDS OF families in Tower Hamlets will welcome the news that the Council has submitted five planning applications to build new homes – another step forward in the “Mayor’s Accelerated Housing Programme”. Mayor Lutfur Rahman is pleased with this achievement. ...

WHAT? ANOTHER ONE? The famous words of “Brenda from Bristol” spring to mind as news comes of yet another government plan to build more homes to tackle the housing crisis. The latest plan has a target of building 70,000 social ...

GREAT EXAM results were welcomed by Mayor Lutfur Rahman last week, as GCSE achievements came out just after SATs results for Key Stage 2 school pupils. Mayor Lutfur Rahman congratulated all those young people who sat GCSES, saying, “I know ...

An inspirational station was agreed at the International Anti-War Conference in June: “From this International Anti-War Conference we raise our united voices: against war and genocide, and the growing nuclear threat, and for peace.” With so much military action around ...

An inspirational station was agreed at the International Anti-War Conference in June: “From this International Anti-War Conference we raise our united voices: against war and genocide, and the growing nuclear threat, and for peace.” With so much military action around ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council has claimed the credit for a cut in air pollution since 2019. This comes at the same time as academic research has shown that London ULEZ has led to a huge improvement in children’s lung capacity. Tower ...

THERE’S NO hanging around in Tower Hamlets when it comes to delivering more social homes. The most recent step forward was a huge meeting of housing companies designed to move forward plans to build new homes. But is something missing? ...

COUNCIL TAX bills are up – as are so many household bills. Mayor Lutfur Rahman has stepped in to offer the poorest households assistance with paying them, as part of his work to help residents with the cost of living. ...

AS EXPECTED – not least by him – Nigel Farage, Leader of Reform UK, has won the Clacton by-election. The by-election was called because the previous MP for Clacton, Nigel Farage, resigned and then stood again. It was less a ...

COMMUNITIES in Tower Hamlets have apparently been expressing concern about increasing levels of online hate – and attacks on Tower Hamlets by people who don’t live here but are keen to create division and tension in the borough. In response, ...