TOWER HAMLETS’ Trading Standards Officers’ faces lit up as they surveyed their latest haul of illicit tobacco – seized from retailers across the borough after a six week long crackdown. Officers went around the borough and made test purchases from ...

LONDON COUNCILS appear to have escaped the worst effects of the Carillion collapse, according to research by the BBC. The BBC has revealed a list of London Councils which have told them that they have no work being carried out ...

CLUTTON STREET residents will soon be rid of an illegal extension in their neighbour’s back garden, as Tower Hamlets Council has won a court case against a wayward landlord. Mohammed Suruk Miah built an extension to his property in Clutton ...

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump’s statement on Jerusalem has been slammed as “reckless and illegal” by the Independent Group of Tower Hamlets Councillors. The opposition group acknowledged that the new US policy will not be welcomed in Tower Hamlets, with its ...

A REPORT produced by a senior social worker at Tower Hamlets Council claims that allegations made by the Times about how a young girl was treated while she was in the Council’s care are without foundation. The allegations were made ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council has announced that it is preparing a Brownfield Land Register – and members of the public are invited to nominate sites to the new system of record keeping. It all began in April, when the Government instructed Local ...

COMMUNITIES ACROSS Tower Hamlets have been concerned for the last two years as the Council, under John Biggs, has cut the youth service and, most recently, put the future of young people’s sport in jeopardy. For his part, John Biggs claims that the ...

EAST END FAMILIES are celebrating the completion of the council’s flagship Watts Grove development in Mile End in what will be one of the first council housing developments to be built by Tower Hamlets in decades. The development, commissioned three ...

THE BANK HOLIDAY press reports about fostering in Tower Hamlets merit a proper investigation say councillors who are part of the People’s Alliance of Tower Hamlets (PATH) Group. The press allegations follow an Ofsted inspection earlier this year which found fault ...

THE STORY of the five year old child who was fined by Tower Hamlets Council for running a lemonade stall outside her home has gone around the world. The little girl set up her stall on the route taken by people going from the ...