ACTIVIST MEDICS are appealing for funds to help them continue work on the effects of climate change on human health. The campaigners are looking to raise £10,000 to continue their work after a disappointing COP26. Medact’s roots are in the ...
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Tower Bridge turns red and green for golden anniversary
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 ...
Read More »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 »Tower Hamlets speaker hosts charity dinner
Muhi Mikdad THE SPEAKER OF Tower Hamlets Council, Cllr Mohammad Ahbab Hossain, hosted the Speaker’s Ball 2021 in the East Winter Gardens in Canary Wharf on 7th December 2021. This was the first fundraising event held since the start of ...
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 »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 »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 ...
Read More »Nurse: Blair’s got out of his room again!
AMONG THE most sickening sights at the end of the western occupation of Afghanistan has been that of former Prime Minister Tony Blair – lecturing us on what the UK should do about foreign policy. Blair played his part in ...
Read More »Cllr Kabir Ahmed guests on The Tuesday Show tonight
TONIGHT residents and electors of Tower Hamlets can meet the new Aspire councillor – Kabir Ahmed, who was elected to represent Weavers Ward last Thursday, 12th August. Cllr Ahmed will be the studio guest on this week’s The Tuesday Show ...
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