YOU COULDN’T see the trees for the Wood at the November meeting of Tower Hamlets Council. The trees are surrounded by wonky paving stones: and Isle of Dogs resident Andrew Wood was petitioning the Council about them. However, Mr Wood’s ...

AFTER 42 happy years in a warehouse on a roundabout in Poplar, Billingsgate Fish Market may be living out its last days. The market is owned by the City of London, and it seems that the Men in Suits are ...

We spoke to Deputy Mayor Cllr Maium Talukdar, Cabinet Member for Education, Youth and Lifelong Learning and councillor for Canary Wharf ward about the women’s takeover of the Tiller Road Be Well Centre. “Lutfur Rahman promised,” said Cllr Talukdar, “and ...

CRICKET IS one of the most popular sports in the UK – and Tower Hamlets is the London Borough where that popularity is growing the fastest. It’s welcome news, then, that the Council is creating a natural turf pitch in ...

CONVICTED! That’s what has happened to five individuals and two companies who had been letting out flats – using a number of illegal and unfair practices. And it happened after a tireless investigation by Tower Hamlets Council trading standards officers. ...

AN EXPERIENCED Labour Party Councillor who resigned from the Party four months ago in concern over the direction the Party was taking has now joined the Aspire Party in Tower Hamlets Council. Cllr Sabina Akhtar, who represents Stepney Green Ward, ...

Emdad Rahman Lifelong bodybuilding sensation and East Londoner Taj Ahmed has fulfilled a lifelong ambition to make his mark in the physical world of bodybuilding. The remarkable fifty year old Tower Hamlets resident stormed to victory in the British Physique ...

England cricketer Moeen Ali is the ambassador and “Seeds of Change” is the slogan for this year’s Islamophobia Awareness Month, which runs through the month of November. The month began back in 2012, at an event in the London Muslim ...

Cllr Gulam Choudhury, Cabinet member for Health, Wellbeing and Social Care, has congratulated the Create Community Hub as it celebrates its 40th anniversary. Create was born as the Coborn Opportunities Project on 14th October 1984. The London Dockland Development Corporation ...

IT WAS not so much the knights of the round table as the suited and booted politicians of the round table as London Mayor Sadiq Khan sat politicians, experts and campaigners down on 29th October to discuss an Action Plan ...