It’s been a summer of awards for the Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park. It began in July, when the Friends of the Cemetery Park were joint winners of the Ethical Wildlife award at the Observer’s Ethical Awards evening. Within weeks, the ...

Tower Hamlets marked the first ever annual Memorial Day to remember victims of honour based violence last week with a number of installation events outside the borough’s Idea Stores. The council’s Domestic Violence and Hate Crime organised the Day to ...

It has been revealed that Tower Hamlets Council officers have been working to improve the environment in and around the banks and financial institutions on the private Canary Wharf site. The Canary Wharf Group (CWG) which manages the private site ...

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Tower Hamlets Council has issued a warning to retailers and consumers regarding unlabelled containers of palm oil. The Council’s Food Safety Team believes containers of the palm oil contain an illegal dye, Sudan IV. Sudan IV is considered to be ...

Mayor Lutfur Rahman has always said that his Administration in Tower Hamlets is an anti-austerity Administration. And Deputy Mayor Cllr Oliur Rahman is helping Mayor Rahman show this is not just a paper policy – by leading a delegation of ...

Following a positive public consultation, Tower Hamlets Council will be applying a 20mph speed limit to all of the borough’s roads – excluding red routes – from Monday, 13th April. The consultation was carried out last October, and 80% of ...

It’s the budget-making meeting of the Council: we’re hoping to bring you an almost live update. We have started with a petition, though – it’s a petition on the budget. The petitioner has asked Mayor Rahman and Tower Hamlets First ...

Tower Hamlets’ employment rate is the highest it’s been for the borough since recording began in 2004. The figures, provided quarterly from the Annual Population Survey, show that 68.1% of the borough’s population are currently in employment – a 4.2% ...

Nineteen gang members have been given injunctions for a variety of offences thanks to evidence provided by Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (THEOs) around Wyllen Close, E1. Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (THEOs) are a uniformed council service formed in September 2009, ...