THE MILE END Community Alcohol Partnership (CAP) has won a national award for its work tackling underage drinking. The award was presented to Vincent Fajilagmago, a Tower Hamlets Council Licensing Officer, by Derek Lewis, Chair of the national CAPs, at ...

HACKNEY EMPIRE has refused to allow a Music Wales Theatre (MWT) production of The Golden Dragon to be performed at the East London venue as it features Caucasian singers playing the part of Asian characters. The opera was due to ...

COURT OF APPEAL has ruled that the Al-Hijrah school in Birmingham was guilty of sex discrimination when it exercised a policy of segregating boy and girl pupils. The Court ruled that the policy left girls “unprepared for life in modern ...

Rabina Khan addresses BNP/Paribas Diversity Week TOWER HAMLETS Councillor Rabina Khan was chosen to give a major speech at the BNP/Paribas Diversity Week – which this year has extended to nearly two weeks and four countries. The annual Diversity Week ...

THE INTERNATIONAL Director of CAGE, Muhammad Rabbani, has been convicted of “wilfully obstructing or seeking to frustrate an examination or search under paragraph 18(1)(c) of Schedule 7 of the Terrorism Act 2000”. He was charged with this offence following an ...

THREE HOUSES in the Coldharbour Conservation Area were demolished last June – and Tower Hamlets Council has now ordered the owners to rebuild them as they were knocked down without permission. Tower Hamlets Council has been investigating the demolition since ...

TOWER HAMLETS Councillors have begun to react to the shocking news that the Government is sending in “Intervention Advisors” to supervise the Council’s work to improve its Children’s Services. Opposition People’s Alliance leader Cllr Rabina Khan has pointed out that ...

COMMUNITIES ACROSS Tower Hamlets have been concerned for the last two years as the Council, under John Biggs, has cut the youth service and, most recently, put the future of young people’s sport in jeopardy. For his part, John Biggs claims that the ...

EAST END FAMILIES are celebrating the completion of the council’s flagship Watts Grove development in Mile End in what will be one of the first council housing developments to be built by Tower Hamlets in decades. The development, commissioned three ...

YOU’RE elected as the mayor of Tower Hamlets, and there’s someone in the High Court telling you what to do, and MPs are threatening to hold an inquiry into how you’re running things. There was a time when John Biggs ...