Labour’s John Biggs has balanced his budget – by getting local residents to dig into their pockets to make up the shortfall. Gone is Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s cast iron pledge protect the most vulnerable in our community – replaced with ...

Welcoming an award won by a park opened by Mayor Lutfur Rahman, Labour’s John Biggs said: “We are delighted that the Landscape Institute has awarded Derbyshire Pocket Park first prize in the ‘Design for a Small Scale Development’ category.” Not ...

Around 2,500 people in Tower Hamlets have a Freedom Pass which expires on 31st March, and Tower Hamlets Council has reminded them of the procedure for renewing the Pass. •First, pass-holders will receive a letter early this month explaining what ...

A 29 year old man drove a red Peugeot 307 at a mosque in Valence, France, on New Year’s day: no one yet knows why. Initially it seemed like a terror attack. The French army has been on guard outside ...

“I was stupid [and] there’s no fool like an old fool,” said Simon Danczuk, MP for Rochdale after apologising unreservedly for his “inappropriate” behaviour” in sending sexually inappropriate text messages to a 17 year old woman. Within minutes rather than ...

Oliver Letwin MP is the Minister for Government Policy in the Cabinet Office. Government papers, which are routinely released after 30 years, show what he (and fellow civil servant Hartley Booth) wrote about the riots on Tottenham’s Broadwater Farm estate ...

As we head towards the end of the holidays, make the most of the mild spell to make sure your junior citizens get out and about instead of sitting indoors moping about. All young people in the borough aged 8-19 ...

Thanks to Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s initiative to introduce a “Mayor’s Cup” football competition, grants to community football groups are now available. And just before Xmas John “two jobs” Biggs found time in his busy schedule holding down two full-time jobs ...

Sadly, although we are enjoying a mild period over the holidays, it is likely that winter will arrive in earnest in the New Year. Tower Hamlets Council has issued some advice to help us cope – especially the more vulnerable ...

Cllr Ayas Miah, Cabinet Member for Environment, took the opportunity to set out the Tower Hamlets Administration’s policy on food safety this month, saying: “The council take breaches of food safety very seriously.” The opportunity arose because the Council announced ...