A TALL CRANE has collapsed in Gale Street, London E3 – just north of the Limehouse Cut, near Watts Grove. The London Fire Brigade has reported that the crane was 20 metres tall.  It was on a building site in ...

Cllr Nazir Ahmed FRSA – barrister, writer, analyst and public representative – calls on the Home Office to lift the “No Recourse to Public Funds” restriction. No Recourse to Public Funds (NRPF) is a standard condition applied to those staying in ...

JOHN BIGGS is to sack the entire Council workforce on Monday, 6th July in order to impose new terms and conditions at work upon them. Biggs was elected on a Labour Party manifesto – and trade unions are now wondering ...

MYSTERY SURROUNDS Executive Mayor John Biggs’s failure to provide an Equality Impact Assessment (EIA) of the new pay package and terms and conditions changes known as “Tower Rewards” to unions or the press. The concern now is that Labour Councillors, ...

Cllr Nazir Ahmed FRSA – barrister, writer and analyst – explains the extra protection due to tenants during the Covid-19 pandemic. The long established legal requirement that landlords must give a minimum of two months’ Notice period when serving a ...

SEVENTEEN Tower Hamlets residents were arrested as the police held a day of action in the borough at the end of last month. The arrests were all on suspicion of various drug offences, with three men arrests on suspicion of ...

#BlackLivesMatter This month we shall be recording responses made to the killing of George Floyd on 25th May. Too many black people have died at the hands of state racism, institutional racism – and individual racism stoked by the first ...

FACE COVERING measures on public transport and hospitals are only the first step says the British Medical Association (BMA). Doctors have long been campaigning for more masks – and more public information about wearing them – to help slow down ...

MANORFIELD PRIMARY SCHOOL will be trialling a new method of optimising space so that children who return to school can learn and socialise while maintaining social distance. The plan comes from architects Curl la Tourelle Head, which has suggested that ...

SUPPORTING the “Black Lives Matter” movement is not just a case of saying you support it, or going on a march to show you do, or signing a petition to say that police officers should stop killing black people in ...