Emdad Rahman Hundreds of residents turned out for the Ocean & Limehouse Field Community Fun Day which took place on Saturday 5th September at Shandy Park, Stepney. The Fun Day was arranged as a way of engaging all members of ...

Support builds for Abdal Ullah as Labour members warm to “a safe pair of hands” Labour Party members across East London will begin voting on Monday to choose a Labour candidate for the Greater London Assembly elections next May. And ...

Independent researchers interviewed residents early this year – and found that residents were very happy with the services under Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration. No council services saw a decline in ratings compared to last year’s survey, indicating that Mayor Lutfur ...

John Biggs has admitted Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s boroughwide 20mph speed limit “will improve road safety for everyone” and his Cabinet Member for the Environment has dubbed the measure “important”. The new limit was introduced after Mayor Lutfur Rahman and his ...

The Poplar & Limehouse Constituency Labour Party met last Tuesday to choose one candidate – from a long list of 18 – to put on the Labour Party’s ballot paper, from which members will chose who will be the Labour ...

David Cameron summed up his approach to “extremism” in one paragraph of the lengthy statement he made this week: “For all our successes as multi-racial, multi-faith democracy, we have to confront a tragic truth that there are people born and ...

Things are looking up for Swan Housing Association. The controversial social landlord suffered a setback in late 2012 when it was found that some of their employees had committed fraud by falsifying documents in order to claim a government grant ...

A man who assaulted a Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officer (THEO) has been sentenced by magistrates.  Andrew Laurence Botyville was sentenced to prison for 26 weeks, suspended for 18 months, subject to conditions. He was sentenced following an incident that took ...

Biggs makes first pledge to keep a key Lutfur Rahman policy. John “Two Jobs” Biggs found his luck was in last Monday when he opened the Healthy Schools and Healthy Early Years Celebration Event – held, like John Biggs’s Tower ...

Figures released by the Department of Communities and Local Government (DCLG) show Tower Hamlets delivered the highest number of affordable homes in the country. Between 2010/11 and 2014/15 – essentially the period of Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration – Tower Hamlets ...