Tower Hamlets Council is expanding the reach of the services available at the Parents Advice Centre. For the past 20 years, the Centre has been offering expert advice, information and support to parents of children with special educational needs and/or ...

As the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow proved to be a blistering success with England’s haul of medals pushing past 100, be inspired to get fit and push yourself to the limit with a new outdoor gym in Tower Hamlets. ...

We were all surprised earlier this year when Labour’s John Biggs declared his intention to carry on as a GLA Councillor for City and East London (the City, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham) while also serving as Mayor of ...

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 ...

Operation Valour is a project commemorating the police officers from K Division (what is now Newham, Tower Hamlets, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham boroughs) who enlisted in the armed forces during the First World War and were subsequently killed in ...

Over 600 people turned up to a musical fiesta of local talent at Victoria Park for the third Our Big Gig held in Tower Hamlets at the end of July. The annual community music celebration takes place across the UK ...

The Riverside Muslim Association, Barking organised a community Iftar to celebrate the month of Ramadan.   Residents and guests from various backgrounds came together to break bred and eat at sunset.   Barking Councillor Cameron Geddes said: “I was so ...

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 ...

A retrospective exhibition of artist Dan Jones’s work spanning more than 40 years has opened at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives. The exhibition features over 50 of Dan’s paintings and posters reflecting East End life and history, with ...

In the 1980s, the then Tory Government set up the London Docklands Development Corporation, which made deals (usually discounts on their taxes) with various companies to move to the Isle of Dogs. They told us that wealth would trickle down ...