JOHN BIGGS, mayor of Tower Hamlets, wants to see more of the borough’s residents recycling their rubbish – and he has made a small concession to make it slightly easier for them to do so. Residents who need to put ...

IF YOUR NEW YEAR’S resolutions included stopping using tobacco – by smoking or by chewing – Tower Hamlets Council is offering the support which could be crucial to helping you to quit for good. With Tower Hamlets having one of ...

JOHN BIGGS, Labour Mayor of Tower Hamlets, set the public to work cleaning up the Borough before Christmas and branded the exercise “a great success”. Most councils pay staff to do cleaning, while some contract out the service. However, not ...

THE RISE IN house prices in 2017 was the slowest for five years claims the Halifax, the UK’s largest mortgage lender – echoing a similar finding announced by the Nationwide just days ago. The news prompts further concern about the ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council will resume normal rubbish collections from Monday, 8th January – after collecting over 2,000 tonnes of commercial and household waste from the adjusted collection timetable which operated over the seasonal break. There will also be a free ...

DAYS AFTER Independent Group councillor Ohid Ahmed called for Tower Hamlets mayor to set up a voluntary register of retailers to log sales of corrosive liquids, a group of national retailers have come to a voluntary agreement to curb sales ...

LOOK WHO’S helping hand out Christmas dinner to Newham’s older residents! Dinner hands for the day were controversial Mayor Sir Robin Wales and his deputy – Cllr Ken Clark. Wales was re-selected last year as Labour’s candidate to fight the Newham ...

WHAT HAPPENS if Brexit sees tens of thousands of financial sector jobs disappear from East London? That was the question rippling through East London, as politicians wondered if the Colman’s closure would be repeated in the capital. Yesterday Colman’s, manufacturers ...

ISLE OF DOGS Independent Group Councillor Maium Miah has spoken out in support of the Council taking action to curb acid attacks. The Canary Wharf ward councillor was speaking out after two attacks in his own ward. Cllr Maium Miah said, “There ...

INDEPENDENT GROUP Councillor Ohid Ahmed has called on Tower Hamlets Council to create a “Tower Hamlets Acid Register”, to be used on a voluntary basis by local retailers who sell corrosive substances. Cllr Ahmed says that a voluntary register would ...