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 ...
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Ohid calls on Biggs to take a stand against Trump
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 ...
Read More »Biggs makes small concession on rubbish
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 ...
Read More »Biggs happy with public doing their own cleaning
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 ...
Read More »Acid retailers beat Bungle Biggs to action
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 ...
Read More »Red Robin and his helper hand out Xmas grub
LOOK WHO’S helping hand out Christmas dinner to Newham’s older residents! Dinner hands for the day were controversial Mayor Sir Robin Wales and his deputy – Cllr Ken Clark. Wales was re-selected last year as Labour’s candidate to fight the Newham ...
Read More »Rushanara & Jim join in on #WalkTheMet
OVER FIFTY London MPs and Assembly Members (AMs) joined local police officers out on the beat in their constituencies before Christmas. The outings were part of the #WalkTheMet initiative which seeks to make politicians more aware of what police officers ...
Read More »Rabina slams Bungle-Biggs on housing plans
CLLR RABINA KHAN has outlined her objections to John Biggs’s plan to cram thousands of residential units into the already highly developed south of Tower Hamlets. Cllr Khan’s comments were made in a submission to the Council’s consultation on the ...
Read More »Cllr Rabina Khan says Bungle-Biggs forgot Brexit!
“STAGGERING INCOMPETENCE” is how Cllr Rabina Khan has described John Biggs’s Draft Tower Hamlets Local Plan. “Brexit,” Cllr Khan told London Bangla. “Brexit. He’s forgotten about Brexit. Can you believe it? It’s not exactly a secret, Brexit, is it?” The Tower ...
Read More »Boundary commission carves up the East End
BOUNDARY COMMISSION has published revised proposals for new parliamentary constituencies in the UK. There will now be a further period of public consultation before a final recommendation is made to Parliament to adopt these boundaries with effect from the next ...
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