All keen gardeners have the chance to show off their horticultural skills by entering the 2014 Tower Hamlets in Bloom competition. From balconies, community gardens and allotments to patios, businesses and schools… the competition is open to anyone who makes ...

With the day of the elections getting very close (it’s just next Thursday, 22nd May), East London residents are being urged to get ready to use their right to vote – and to be sure they complete the ballot papers ...

Postal votes started to come into Tower Hamlets Town Hall this week as voting gets underway for the elections taking place on Thursday, 22nd May. Stringent security checks are being carried out, with every postal voting statement scanned to ensure ...

All candidates at a packed election hustings meeting held on Monday in the Royal Docks area of Newham expressed opposition to any further expansion of London City Airport.  The meeting, organized by HACAN East (the body which represents residents under ...

ELN has long argued that the mayoral election in Tower Hamlets should be decided by policy differences: let’s look at how the two candidates shape up on housing policy. Rahman makes it clear his priority is supply. That’s a sensible ...

Well, here we are; three and a half years later, and it doesn’t seem like five minutes since 300 people stood on a frosty Old Ford Road at gone 2am one Friday morning in October 2010 and cheered their heads ...

Friday’s our day off in East London News: and what better way to spend it, given that it is the last Friday of the election campaign, than touring the Borough’s mosques to get the last minute vibes? Imagine our surprise, ...

One of the reasons why the number of people employed in the UK has gone up is that as it’s so hard to get a decent full-time job, people are having to do two or three part-time jobs to make ...

In the first full financial year since this Coalition Government took office (2011/12), the NHS cut £5.8 billion from its spending. Some of these “efficiency savings” were made by finding cheaper prices for things the NHS had to buy, but ...

Metropolitan Police Service crime figures up to the end of March 2014 show that incidents classed as “Islamophobic crime” have nearly tripled, from 17 to 50 individual incidents. The increase coincides with the period of time in which Labour and ...