LABOUR IS running Redbridge Council. They have an overall majority on the Council – 43 out of 73 councillors. The opposition is led by the Redbridge Independents (nine seats), the Green Party and the Conservative Party (five seats each) and ...

WHAT is going on at the Be Well Centres in Tower Hamlets? Management of the leisure centres came in-house in 2024, and the service has certainly improved. But Unite says their members’ jobs are not being well at all. Unite, ...

IT WAS football, not knives last month as Year 8 and Year 9 pupils from secondary schools in Barking & Dagenham got stock in to a football tournament organised by the Community Safety Partnership. The event marked Knife Crime Awareness ...

NEWHAM COUNCIL has announced the 130 community projects that will be funded as part of its “People Powered Places” (PPP) initiative. PPP sees residents decide how planning gain money will be spent – but is that a good idea? When ...

IT’S THE Hackney Local Area Activation Fund (LAAF), and businesses are invited to bid for a share now. The Fund has been put together as part of the Government’s UK Shared Prosperity Fund, which aims to bring life back to ...

MAYOR LUTFUR RAHMAN has marked Volunteers’ Week by thanking everyone who does voluntary work in Tower Hamlets. “Our volunteers show what is possible when people come together with a shared purpose,” he said. “I want to thank each and every ...

THE MURDER of a teenager in Hackney Wick last week saw Hackney’s Green Mayor, Zoë Garbett, and Deputy Mayor Cllr Dylan Law express their condolences to the family and commitment to community safety. The statement reads: “We are extremely shocked and ...

THIS IS how things used to be in East London: a huge majority for Labour Councillors, with a small opposition – a Labour Leader and a Labour Cabinet. It’s a team full of hope. Will that be enough? There is ...

Akbar Hussain More than a thousand Muslims gathered at Isleworth Deen Centre’s “Eid in the Park” celebration in Redlees Park, West London on 27th May. Families joined together at the event which was organised by Isleworth Deen Centre (IDC). The ...

WITH A promise to “put power back in the hands of the people”, Mayor Forhad Hussain kicked off his time as Mayor of Newham following his election on 7th May. He also pledged to focus on cleaner streets, community safety ...