The Government has cut millions from Tower Hamlets’ income, but the Council has fortunately won a small grant which will restore a tiny drop of the missing funding. The Department for Communities and Local Government (DCLG) set aside £3.5 million ...
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There’s 99 bus shelters in Tower Hamlets…
John “two jobs” Biggs has taken time out of his busy schedule juggling with two full-time jobs to steer through a new contract for advertising in some of the borough’s bus shelters. Beijing may have nine million bicycles, but Tower ...
Read More »Council remembers those who lost their lives in the Holocaust
Tower Hamlets Council will be marking Holocaust Memorial Day on 27th January with a number of events so that residents can remember the six million people who lost their lives during the Holocaust years and the millions of others who ...
Read More »Biggs slaps “austerity tax” on Tower Hamlets voters
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 ...
Read More »Free fun for Tower Hamlets youngsters
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 ...
Read More »Council celebrates UN Disability Day with push on sport
Tower Hamlets Council works hard to promote sport to all its residents and to ensure there are plenty of place to take part in a wide variety of sport throughout the borough. It takes an inclusive approach: so one strand ...
Read More »An open letter to Tower Hamlets MPs
This is a letter which Cllr Oli Rahman sent to the two Tower Hamlets MPs on behalf of Tower Hamlets Independent Group of Councillors just before the parliamentary vote on whether to bomb Syria. Dear Ms Ali and Mr Fitzpatrick ...
Read More »Has Tower Hamlets Labour backed wrong horse for London mayor?
With the election of the next London Mayor less than six months away, it’s not surprising to see Labour councillors keen to back a candidate in this important political race. It is very strange, though, to find Labour Councillors bigging ...
Read More »Council staff and Play on Sports raise money for Syrian refugees
Emdad Rahman Tower Hamlets Council staff and Play On Sports have organised a 5-a-side indoor football tournament to raise money and awareness for Syrian refugee children. Tournament organiser Akbal Ahmed said: “After seeing that photo of little Aylan Kurdi washed ashore – and having ...
Read More »Council acts against dangerous teddies
In another success for Tower Hamlets Council’s Trading Standards department, tourists have been protected from dangerous teddy bears which were on sale near the Tower of London. The department took action last year, having been tipped off by colleagues in ...
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