The last weekend of the mayoral election campaign in Tower Hamlets saw questions being raised about how the Labour Party came to use a public park for a “campaign event”. Either the Party had hired Altab Ali Park (which would ...
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Show off your blooms!
Move over Chelsea Flower Show – East Enders have the chance to show off their horticultural skills in the Council’s annual gardening competition. The Tower Hamlets in Bloom competition rewards those who help to make the borough bright and beautiful. ...
Read More »Mayoral Manifestos Part 2: If I can smash the glass ceiling, so can you!
Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the mayoral campaign explaining that standing for election as Mayor of Tower Hamlets is a big step for her – but it could be a step forward for women across ...
Read More »Mayoral Manifestos Part 1: Biggs pledges to hold more public meetings
While Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the campaign concentrating on how to create more jobs for unemployed women, Labour candidate John Biggs (a Member of the London Assembly) is working hard on getting a second job ...
Read More »Trouble comes in threes for Labour’s Biggs
They say that trouble comes in threes – and the last weekend of the campaign to be mayor of Tower Hamlets saw Labour red-faced over three incidents as they made their third attempt to take the Town Hall’s top post. ...
Read More »More homes built – but not in London!
The first quarter of 2015 saw 40,000 new homes being registered in the UK, according to figures collected by the NHBC. Unfortunately, only 5,622 of these were in London and, across the whole of the UK, only 9,735 were public ...
Read More »(Almost) live from the count Part 3
[Adverts] An interesting night. Jim Fitzpatrick looked forward to fighting the mayoral campaign with John Biggs. Rushanara Ali welcomed the election of Naz Shah in Bradford West (though that does not appear to have been formally declared) and Rupa ...
Read More »Nurseries: great expectations to be met next week
New arrangements for applying for places in community and school-linked nurseries have been operating this year in Tower Hamlets. Parents have had a common application form, with one closing date – and the Council expects to send out letters to ...
Read More »Is this the man who can halt the Labour shoo-in?
Are we on the brink of another Labour upset? Three weeks ago it seemed self-evident that the borough’s sitting Labour MPs would walk through to victory at the General Election. That was before the election court verdict in the case ...
Read More »Rushanara stands on her record: is it up to scratch?
There were smirks from the Tory benches at the last meeting of the Council as Labour Group Leader Cllr Rachael Saunders referred to Rushnara Ali as the local “MP”, who was working for her “constituents”. It had to be pointed ...
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