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 ...

Emdad Rahman SPORTING GREEN have won the Under 12s Tower Hamlets summer league after an eagerly contested title decider. In doing so, the Wapping team has completed the winter and summer league double – an outstanding achievement for the new ...

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 ...

SUPPORTERS OF the Tower Hamlets Youth Sports Foundation (THYSF) will be lobbying the Council tonight to protest against a lack of funding for this organisation – and its extensive programme of sport enjoyed by young people across the borough. The ...

TOWER HAMLETS PATH Councillors have launched a petition calling on Labour’s Executive Mayor, John Biggs, to undertake a number of measures to improve fire safety in the Borough. Already the petition is gathering support at a rate of knot, with ...

TOWER HAMLETS Independent Group of Councillors has marked the Queen’s Speech by sending an Open Letter to the two Labour MPs in Tower Hamlets – Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar & Limehouse) and Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green & Bow), The Letter deals ...