IT’S NOT just pensioners who need help with fuel costs and other bills. Tower Hamlets relies on local small businesses to provide local jobs and to sell us the goods and services we need. And climbing costs are not helping ...

SAFETY FOR residents and visitors; respect for our heritage; police resources; and road safety were the key concerns of councillors who rejected, for the second time, a planning application to build a new Chinese embassy at Tower Hill. The issue ...

JUST HOW hard should we be on dogs – and their owners – in Tower Hamlets? Over the summer, Tower Hamlets Council has been consulting the public on a new dog-control policy: and dog owners are… barking mad about it. ...

ONLY KIDDING! The last full Tower Hamlets council meeting of 2024, held on 20th November, took place under a blanket of calm respect. But it was only superficial: under the blanket seethed the usual passions over who should be governing ...

Government inspectors spent several months in Tower Hamlets Council this year, inspecting the Council’s observance of its “Best Value” obligations. Their report was released on Tuesday, 12th November. Below we print the Council’s response to the report. A link to ...

Emdad Rahman Sabia Kamali, Councillor, Cabinet Member, London Borough of Newham, and founding CEO of the Sisters’ Forum, a BAME women’s collective in East London has been recognised for her tireless efforts in helping hundreds of women escape domestic violence ...

HOW MANY times have you walked past youngsters on the street and seen them sharing round those small, silver cannisters of nitrous oxide? Or gone out in the morning and tutted over a pile of empty cannisters left in the ...

COUNCILS IN England and Wales have made public their concerns over government delays in the process of housing and taking care of Ukrainian refugees who have fled the war in their country. The concerns were raised by the Local Government ...

HOW MANY Tower Hamlets Council staff does it take to change a light bulb? Our guess is that no one knows (the search facility on the Council website returned 2,369 results to this question, but they didn’t seem to have ...

Muhi Mikdad A TOWER HAMLETS Councillor hopes that a recent operation on an injured leg will see him return to being fully match fit. Councillor Shah Shuhel Ameen represents Whitechapel ward in Tower Hamlets. He took part in an exhibition ...