Tower Hamlets Council celebrated grass root volunteers at the CanDo Celebration and Awards ceremony on 25th June at the Mile End Ecology Pavilion. The project provides start up support to individuals with ideas on how to help residents shape attitudes ...

The Government has made a further £1 million available to help charitable and community organisations help people to cut their fuel bills. That’s about a penny and a half per UK resident: it’s unlikely to have a major impact. The ...

On Sunday 370 runners put on their trainers and came down to Victoria Park for the first Subway  Helping Hearts Family 5K event  in the capital. Local professional boxer Aarron “The Marksmen” Morgan was on hand to start the  race ...

Residents are invited to come along and enjoy a season of summer evening markets in Tower Hamlets this July. The summer market sessions will take place in Whitechapel and at Watney market on Friday and Saturday evenings between 7pm and ...

We all know the old joke about doctors having poor handwriting: but it’s come to something when confused communication spreads across the whole NHS – and then jumps the species barrier from handwritten to computer generated copy, as is the ...

With Ramadan fast approaching, the Barts Health Diabetes Care Centre is holding a series of advice sessions to encourage safe fasting across Tower Hamlets. The main risk for anyone who fasts is hypoglycaemia (or “hypo” for short), which is when ...

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 ...

Tower Hamlets Council is reminding residents that the drug khat will become illegal from 24th June, under new legislation introduced by the Government. Khat will become a controlled Class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, which means ...

Downton Abbey star Jim Carter will take part in a charity cycling ride in Madagascar this autumn in support of Richard House Children’s Hospice, of which he is a patron. The route will take cyclists through the heart of Madagascar, ...

Local artists are excited to see new artwork filling the white space on the walls of the new dental hospital. Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren has produced Constructing a New World to display at the site. The work was commissioned by ...