A NEW INITIATIVE has been set up to encourage London residents to use their parks. Working with the slogan #GoParksLondon, the Campaign to Protect Rural England and the London Friends of Greenspaces Network have come together to popularise parks. The ...

HACKNEY’S MAYOR Philip Glanville took a step forward in tackling the borough’s 13,000-strong housing waiting list last week – as the Planning Committee approved plans to build new homes in Clapton. It’s a small development of just eleven homes, but ...

LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn led the way for Labour yesterday with a succinct tweet praising both England manager Gareth Southgate and the team’s players for their performance in the Football World Cup. The same excitement came from London Mayor Sadiq ...

THE EAST LONDON MOSQUE and London Muslim Centre were pleased to welcome Professor John Esposito when he visited the Mosque on 23rd June. Prof. Esposito is a founding director of the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Centre for Muslim-Christian Understanding, as ...

JOHN BIGGS HAS backed down in the face of a campaign by Unite the Union and agreed that young people working in Council leisure facilities run by GLL should receive he full London Living Wage (LLL) – but he hasn’t ...

THAMES WATER worked throughout the night to fix the burst water pipe in the Fairfield Road area of Bow. They were able to restore the water supply by early Saturday morning. Bow Road re-opened at around midday on Saturday, with ...

WORRIED MOTHERS are asking where the Council consultation on closure of the Local Authority Day Nurseries (LADN) is – not least because the Cabinet report proposed to begin formal closure in “late July 2018”. “We’ve had a week already,” said ...

THEY MAY HAVE come out in their  thousands to vote for him in two months ago – 44,865 of them, up from just 32,754 in 2015 – but Tower Hamlets voters were not coming out to Executive Mayor John Biggs’s Ask ...

JOHN BIGGS, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has moved to close the borough’s last remaining three day care nurseries. The move comes after Labour ran a campaign to keep the nurseries open when the former Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, proposed closing ...

LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn MP visited refugee camps in Jordan at the end of June to mark World Refugee Day – and from there he called on the UK and European governments to do more to help refugees. Corbyn implored ...