Cllr Ohid Ahmed won an unprecedented victory at the Council meeting on 17th January, when the ruling Labour Group of Councillors not only allowed him to move a motion – but actually supported it! While local historians thumb through the ...

NOMINATIONS FOR THE first Asian Restaurant and Takeaway Awards (ARTA) opened last week at the House of Lords, with various dignitaries, many of Asian heritage, present to show their support. The launch was hosted by former Tower Hamlets councillor – ...

HISTORY WAS MADE at the meeting of Tower Hamlets Council last night, 17th January. No one was sure if this was the very first opposition motion which Labour had agreed to debate at a Council meeting – but the debate ...

A RANGE OF dignitaries gathered at Parsloes Park on Monday to for a ground-breaking ceremony – literally. A spade was ceremonially plunged into the turf to start building works on a major new facility for the borough’s young people. The ...

INFLATION CAME DOWN to 3% in December, according to figures just released by the Office of National Statistics. It could be worse – but this is not enough to see Theresa May dancing a jig in her Downing Street office. ...

CAMPAIGNERS TRYING to stop London Mayor Sadiq Khan vandalising Fish Island by permitting a new road bridge to be built and a wharf to be demolished are having a publicity day on Tuesday, 16th January. Activists from the Save the ...

HACKNEY COUNCIL has begun the process of building 400 new homes to shave a sliver off its waiting list. The homes will be built in small batches over 14 sites which include underused land. First in the queue is Mandeville ...

NEWHAM COULD BE building over 1,000 extra affordable homes in the next four years, thanks to an agreement between Newham Mayor Sir Robin Wales and London Mayor Sadiq Khan. The Mayor of London owns a site in Stephenson Street, Canning Town ...

IT WAS LUTFUR RAHMAN who promoted the Mayor’s Cup – an annual competition for football teams in Tower Hamlets. John Biggs has been carrying on the tournament. Each year the tournament has raised money which is spent on football teams ...

DECLARE TOWER HAMLETS a Trump Free Zone! That’s what Cllr Ohid Ahmed is calling on John Biggs to do. He has tabled a motion for the Council meeting next week, asking the whole Council to join him in asking John ...