20.10 Let’s start a new page. The Council has just voted to take a petition from “Save our Nurseries” – an extra one. Why they feel they should take a second petition on nurseries, given that they previously cut the ...
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Full Council tonight: a clash of the titans or a squabble of the squids?
8.00 This is unexpected. The third, and last, petition is being presented by two residents who are deploring what they describe as a party politically motivated attack on Mayor Rahman which is dragging the borough’s name through the mud. They ...
Read More »More drugs seized in Tower Hamlets dealer a day operations
Tower Hamlets Council continues to strive to arrest a “dealer a day”, with officers carrying out further stings in Stepney and Isle of Dogs this month. The recent raids have led to the seizure of heroin, cocaine and cannabis with ...
Read More »Council takes action to improve Kobi Nazrul Primary School
Tower Hamlets Council has applied to the Government for permission to replace the governors at Kobi Nazrul Primary School with immediate effect as part of an effort to improve educational performance, governance and leadership. Last year’s SATs results at the ...
Read More »Police and council taking action over criminal activity around Devons Road
Tower Hamlets Council and Police have issued community reassurance messages to local residents in response to an increase in criminal activity around Devons Road, E3. The latest incident occurred on Monday, 9th June at about 8.30pm, when police were called ...
Read More »Council and community combat violence against women and girls
Tower Hamlets Council is establishing a team of community champions who will be able to challenge sexual and other forms of abuse experienced by women and girls in the workplace and the community. The initiative is modeled on the community ...
Read More »Council cracks down on benefit fraud
Marianne McDonough of Musbury Street, E1, was convicted at Snaresbrook Crown Court on 13th May for failing to declare that she had been working for almost five years while claiming benefits. Ms McDonough was sentenced to 20 weeks imprisonment, which ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets’ part-time “Quiet Man” turns DOWN the volume
“The quiet man is here to stay, and he’s turning up the volume,” said Iain Duncan Smith – kick-starting the steady slide down towards losing the election for Tory Party Leader. For his look-a-like John Biggs, Labour’s candidate for Mayor, ...
Read More »Why we must all put Tower Hamlets First
Well, here we are; three and a half years later, and it doesn’t seem like five minutes since 300 people stood on a frosty Old Ford Road at gone 2am one Friday morning in October 2010 and cheered their heads ...
Read More »Opposition parties’ timing drains Council coffers (a bit)
The BBC’s Panorama programme is in the news again. The allegations aired during the programme were not new: the “documentary” referred to Council grants made several months ago. Viewers saw former Labour Leader Cllr Josh Peck say that he was “pretty ...
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