TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has been found out refusing to host a charity event organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC) – on the grounds that it might be construed as anti-semitic. An article in The Guardian today has revealed that ...

THERE ARE seven outdoor gyms in Tower Hamlets – and they are waiting for residents to dash out between the April showers and have a quick work-out on your own, with friends, or during one of the coaching sessions available. ...

SUNDAY IS THE LAST DAY for members of the public to complete the Council’s online public consultation on nursery closures. Campaigners are calling on everyone who lives, studies or works in Tower Hamlets to take part – and reject the ...

EAST LONDON GARDENERS will be taking a petition to the Town Hall on 19th September asking the Council to ban the use of Roundup in public areas within Tower Hamlets. The announcement was made in the September issue of The Voice, ...

IT WAS A CASE OF “Mum’s the word!” at Tower Hamlets Cabinet on Thursday, 25th July as pro-nursery campaigners were banned from addressing the Mayor and Cabinet. Campaigners had wanted to speak to the Mayor about his controversial proposal to ...

COUNCILLORS have asked Executive Mayor John Biggs to think again over his plans to close the borough’s last three remaining Local Authority Day Nurseries. The move came at a special meeting of the Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee (OSC), held ...

A £50 SHOPPING VOUCHER is being offered as a prize to encourage parents and carers in Tower Hamlets to complete a Council’s survey. The online survey is open to all parents or carers of depending children or young people and ...

JOHN BIGGS has shocked voters across Tower Hamlets – as one of his first acts after the election was to hand pay rises to councillors taking the top positions in his Administration. John Biggs was declared Mayor after second preference ...

A TOWER HAMLETS candidate was attacked and seriously injured yesterday, 6th April, while out campaigning ahead of the Council elections on 3rd May. Abdullah Al Mamun is a candidate for the ASPIRE party, standing in St Katharine’s & Wapping ward. ...

SEVENTEEN ARRESTS have been made since 1st January in a joint operation – “Operation Continuum” between Tower Hamlets Council and Tower Hamlets police. There is no explanation of what “Operation Continuum” is. In the second anti-drug operation held under Operation ...