It was third time lucky for tiddlers and toddlers who went to the street party at Around Poplar Children Centre last week. This was the third party, organised by Tower Hamlets Council and the Children’s Centres Parents Forum – the ...

Lutfur Rahman, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, officially opened the new “pocket park” in Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green during a community event on Friday, 15th August. The environmentally-friendly park has transformed a local eyesore into an asset everyone can enjoy. Residents ...

The Proud Archivist – a gallery, bar, restaurant, café and events space situated on the Regent’s Canal near Haggerston Overground station – has vowed to liven up your bank holiday with some exciting events. On Saturday, 23rd August, the Riviera ...

City Hall is marking the First World War centenary with a new photographic exhibition that offers a powerful reminder of the human cost of war and the impact it had on the lives of Londoners. An estimated 124,000 died in ...

The Council meeting on Wednesday, 30th July was the first proper meeting since the May elections (the meeting on 11th June was concerned only with AGM business). There were a number of new councillors present at their first proper meeting ...

Emdad Rahman Scintilla Cricket Club was unstoppable as Walthamstow Cricket Club were hammered at their home ground. The five wicket demolition job took place at the Peter May Sports Centre, Walthamstow. Scintilla CC captain, Faris Almas-Lee Rosmanizam, was unlucky with ...

There is some tension between London’s Tory mayor Boris Johnson and the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA), which has oversight of how the London Fire Brigade is run. Boris collects the money that funds the fire service: as ...

If a firefighter comes to help you in an emergency, you want that firefighter to be fit enough to do the job. In Tower Hamlets especially, firefighters often have to cope with running up stairs to reach a mechanism to ...

There’s a host of events at the Globe Theatre this summer to keep the whole family entertained. For too many of us, the term “Shakespeare” conjures up memories of dusty text books with lines of verse which, though it seemed ...

Anaesthetists at Barts Health are involved in a national drive to ensure the very best standards of trauma care are available at trauma centres across the NHS. The Major Trauma Centre at The Royal London Hospital has an international reputation for ...