A BURDETT ROAD shop owner has been fined £10,000 for possessing illegal cigarettes – and was ordered to pay Tower Hamlets Council’s legal costs too, estimated at around £3,000. The fine came after the Council prosecuted Oho LT, the company ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has urged residents to use the New Year to make a fresh start and give up smoking and curb their drinking of alcohol. Labour’s John Biggs promoted the stance by warning residents to pull their socks up ...

THE RICH MIX team are wishing their supporters a happy new year. The cultural centre is remembered in Tower Hamlets for winning generous public subsidy and in particular for the controversial £850,00 loan it received from the Council some years ...

Following the devastating news that Year 9 pupil Nasar Ahmed had passed away, Bow School has announced that it is “undertaking a thorough review” of events leading up to his death. Headteacher Cath Smith (pictured above, outside the school) has ...

Emdad Rahman An international aid charity has opened the doors to its new office in London’s East End. There was a small celebration as the Human Relief Foundation launched a new site in Whitechapel from where the charity’s southern-based aid efforts ...

Labour Cllr Khales Uddin Ahmed has been suspended from the Labour Party. ELN understands that this follows allegations made by a number of his Labour Councillor colleagues. Cllr Khales has been serving as the Speaker of the Council, where Labour ...

Emdad Rahman Regents Lake Banqueting Hall was the venue as Brit College celebrated ten years of delivering Higher Education as an independent provider. Brit College was established in 2006 and since 2013 it has delivered a single Higher Education programme ...

Labour’s John Biggs has been mayor of Tower Hamlets for just over a year now – and he rushed out this morning to congratulate Tower Hamlets “A”-level students who were finding out the results of their hard work over the ...

Evidence is growing that the rebel Labour MPs who tried to oust Jeremy Corbyn as Leader of the Labour Party are out of touch with their party members and the country. Constituency Labour Parties (CLPs) are showing strong support for ...

For once, Bangladeshi Labour councillors were rising from the benches, one after another, to speak in a Council debate. As they did so, they may have wondered why their non-Bangladeshi colleagues were sitting on their hands. This happened at the ...