ALL EYES ARE turning to Executive Mayor John Biggs as it is revealed that children in four constituencies in the UK are more likely than not to grow up in poverty – and two of the four are in Tower ...

IT WAS A day out at the recycling plant for Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs and his Cabinet Member for Strategic Development and Waste, Cllr Rachel Blake, last Thursday. The two Labour politicians headed down to the Bywaters Recovery facility ...

IT WAS GOOD NEWS for hockey players in Tower Hamlets last week as a new all-weather, floodlit hockey pitch was opened in Mile End Park. It was formally opened by Helen Richardson-Walsh, Olympic gold medal winner, and John Biggs, mayor ...

IT WAS FOUR HOURS OF talking, vision and passion – and no discussion of how to keep basic services going under the Tory Government’s austerity regime. That was the “partnership summit” last week. The event brought the public, private and ...

CAMPAIGNERS TRYING to stop London Mayor Sadiq Khan vandalising Fish Island by permitting a new road bridge to be built and a wharf to be demolished are having a publicity day on Tuesday, 16th January. Activists from the Save the ...

IT WAS LUTFUR RAHMAN who promoted the Mayor’s Cup – an annual competition for football teams in Tower Hamlets. John Biggs has been carrying on the tournament. Each year the tournament has raised money which is spent on football teams ...

DECLARE TOWER HAMLETS a Trump Free Zone! That’s what Cllr Ohid Ahmed is calling on John Biggs to do. He has tabled a motion for the Council meeting next week, asking the whole Council to join him in asking John ...

JOHN BIGGS, mayor of Tower Hamlets, wants to see more of the borough’s residents recycling their rubbish – and he has made a small concession to make it slightly easier for them to do so. Residents who need to put ...

JOHN BIGGS, Labour Mayor of Tower Hamlets, set the public to work cleaning up the Borough before Christmas and branded the exercise “a great success”. Most councils pay staff to do cleaning, while some contract out the service. However, not ...

DAYS AFTER Independent Group councillor Ohid Ahmed called for Tower Hamlets mayor to set up a voluntary register of retailers to log sales of corrosive liquids, a group of national retailers have come to a voluntary agreement to curb sales ...