IT IS several years since the NHS decided to modernise the Royal London Hospital – triggering a wholesale redevelopment of the surrounding part of Whitechapel. But will the development bring improvements to the area? The opportunity to improve Whitechapel wasn’t ...

THE SLAVE TRADE was running across the Atlantic – but in Tower Hamlets, between 1567 and 1802, Black people were finding refuge and telling their stories. Now a new exhibition tells their stories. Six local residents have dug into the ...

IT IS HARD to know who has come out of the Tulip Siddiq saga the worse: her, the MP for Hampstead & Highgate and former Economic Secretary to the Treasury; or him, Leader of the Labour Party and UK Prime ...

AFTER 42 happy years in a warehouse on a roundabout in Poplar, Billingsgate Fish Market may be living out its last days. The market is owned by the City of London, and it seems that the Men in Suits are ...

We spoke to Deputy Mayor Cllr Maium Talukdar, Cabinet Member for Education, Youth and Lifelong Learning and councillor for Canary Wharf ward about the women’s takeover of the Tiller Road Be Well Centre. “Lutfur Rahman promised,” said Cllr Talukdar, “and ...

CRICKET IS one of the most popular sports in the UK – and Tower Hamlets is the London Borough where that popularity is growing the fastest. It’s welcome news, then, that the Council is creating a natural turf pitch in ...

Emdad Rahman Lifelong bodybuilding sensation and East Londoner Taj Ahmed has fulfilled a lifelong ambition to make his mark in the physical world of bodybuilding. The remarkable fifty year old Tower Hamlets resident stormed to victory in the British Physique ...

England cricketer Moeen Ali is the ambassador and “Seeds of Change” is the slogan for this year’s Islamophobia Awareness Month, which runs through the month of November. The month began back in 2012, at an event in the London Muslim ...

MAYOR LUTFUR RAHMAN has invited primary school pupils who live or go to school in Tower Hamlets to design a festive Christmas card. The Mayor will choose some of the best designs to send out as Council cards this year. ...

LONDON BANGLA COMMENT: LABOUR COUNCILLORS are having a hard time of it lately – looking for new ground to occupy now that their party is in national government but is still giving local government a hard time. For many voters, ...