DAYS AFTER Independent Group councillor Ohid Ahmed called for Tower Hamlets mayor to set up a voluntary register of retailers to log sales of corrosive liquids, a group of national retailers have come to a voluntary agreement to curb sales ...
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Sadiq offers schools more knife wands
LONDON MAYOR Sadiq Khan has responded to the New Year stabbings across London by reminding schools that he has offered to supply them with “knife wands” – metal detectors which help schools check that pupils are not bringing knives onto ...
Read More »Labour slams Tories after car sales slump
BREXIT – and the Government’s mishandling of negotiations – is laying the basis for a long term decline in the British economy. This is the view of Rebecca Long-Bailey MP, Shadow Business Secretary in Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. Her comments ...
Read More »Will Brexit turn East London into a ghost town?
WHAT HAPPENS if Brexit sees tens of thousands of financial sector jobs disappear from East London? That was the question rippling through East London, as politicians wondered if the Colman’s closure would be repeated in the capital. Yesterday Colman’s, manufacturers ...
Read More »Labour slates Tory NHS fail
TORY GOVERNMENT should be “deeply ashamed” of the latest figures which show that record numbers of patients have been left waiting in ambulances, unable to gain admission to hospital A&E departments this winter – according to Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party. ...
Read More »Island Inde Maium Miah backs anti-acid action
ISLE OF DOGS Independent Group Councillor Maium Miah has spoken out in support of the Council taking action to curb acid attacks. The Canary Wharf ward councillor was speaking out after two attacks in his own ward. Cllr Maium Miah said, “There ...
Read More »Ohid Ahmed calls for action on acid attacks
INDEPENDENT GROUP Councillor Ohid Ahmed has called on Tower Hamlets Council to create a “Tower Hamlets Acid Register”, to be used on a voluntary basis by local retailers who sell corrosive substances. Cllr Ahmed says that a voluntary register would ...
Read More »Rail fare rises threaten government housing plans
YET ANOTHER massive hike in rail fares is threatening government plans to gentrify inner London and push low paid workers out to the cheaper suburbs. Fare rises averaging 3.4% came in with the New Year – the biggest increase in ...
Read More »UK faces rubbish quandary
CHINA HAS recently announced that it will no longer take plastic rubbish from the UK – exposing the UK’s recent practices and strategic planning on recycling as… pretty much a load of rubbish. Two startling pieces of information have been ...
Read More »Rushanara & Jim join in on #WalkTheMet
OVER FIFTY London MPs and Assembly Members (AMs) joined local police officers out on the beat in their constituencies before Christmas. The outings were part of the #WalkTheMet initiative which seeks to make politicians more aware of what police officers ...
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