If you want to vote in the elections for London Mayor on 5th May, you must be on the electoral register – and 18th April is your deadline for joining the register if you are not already on it. If ...

When the Cabinet system was first introduced, a council’s “overview and scrutiny” committee was intended to scrutinise, closely, the work of the executive – providing some sort of reassurance to the wider Council. Councillors were given “call in” powers, by ...

Tower Hamlets Mayor, John “two jobs” Biggs, is making sure that Mayor Lutfur’s vision for a new Town Hall in Whitechapel is coming together. As the Mulberry Place Town Hall was being demolished, so its owners could redevelop the site, ...

Roman Road market is open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays – and the Council has just announced that fresh food stalls will be joining the market on Saturdays. Roman Road is a traditional East London street market and most traders ...

Questions were being asked on Sunday as John “two jobs” Biggs displayed a very relaxed attitude to the second Britain First demonstration outside the East London Mosque in a fortnight. It was around 1.15pm on Sunday that just over a ...

Emdad Rahman Newark Youth London has celebrated another great year by delivering a successful awards event at Mulberry School, East London. Newark Youth London was formed in 1984 by a group of young people aged between 9-12 years. The group ...

In the old days, when you had a festival or a fun-day, your Council told you when and where it was and what was going on and you went their and did it. Now, under Boris Johnson’s free-market London, you ...

There was traditional East End rebellion in the air on Saturday, as over 100 residents of Old Ford Housing Association gathered at St Paul’s Church in St Stephen’s Road to ask what had gone wrong with their housing association. As ...

Emdad Rahman A 700-strong audience was thoroughly entertained at a cultural gala organised by the Community Languages Service of Tower Hamlets and which paid tribute to community languages and the variety of cultures across Tower Hamlets. Under the able leadership of Mr Showkat Khan, Service Manager of the Community ...

Labour’s John Biggs promised that he would be accountable to his electors and he’s making a start by coming out from the Town Hall to meet the public at sessions he has called the “Mayoral Assembly”. The Assembly is timed ...