Politics

Cllr Anthony Ramsay (left) with Emdad Rahman. Emdad Rahman interviews Cllr Anthony Ramsay, Mayor of Barking. Councillor Anthony Keith Ramsay was born in the Royal Free Hospital, London in 1955. He was brought up in Hertfordshire and Essex, attending the ...

The future of the redevelopment at “Blackwall Reach” was thrown into doubt this week as [read more or click on "Read issue online"]

To see Sir Robin Wales practise the “care in the constituency” module of his media training course, click the link below and watch the video.  It’s always nice to see a man who’s not afraid to show his masculine side. ...

Labour and Conservative councillors have continued to play silly games over the appointment of a new Chief Executive. The scheduled

Five Tower Hamlets councillors have been threatened with explusion from the Labour Party – and have hit back by asking whether the Labour Party is institutionally racist.

Stalwart peace campaigner Len Aldis visited Hanoi, Vietnam, in early May to speak at a Medical University on Agent Orange and the consequences for Vietnam.  While he was there he was able to contact the Vietnam Women’s Union (VWU).  Shortly ...

The TUC has warned that the Beecroft proposals would create “more than three million second-class citizens at work”. This is the number of people working in small companies with fewer than 10 staff who will be turned into second-class citizens ...

Missiles and an absent Ministry were the cause of residents' agitation at a public meeting held in Bow Methodist Church

In a move which would have had Tony Blair’s spin doctors proud, Tower Hamlets Labour Group threw East London News out

We understand that the confidential part of the Council agenda on 16th May ended in uproar, with the police being called in