The news that Cllr Rabina Khan will stand in the mayoral election on 11th June, announced at last Thursday’s rally at the Waterlilly, will come as a delight to many voters in Tower Hamlets. As Cabinet Member for Housing (and, ...

London Labour Party officials have given losing mayoral candidate John Biggs a chance to make it “fourth time lucky” by announcing that he will be the Party’s candidate in the re-run election for Tower Hamlets Mayor, to be held on ...

Parents and guardians who have applied for their child to have a place in a Tower Hamlets primary school heard the results of their application last week. The good news is that a huge majority of children – 94.8% – ...

For over a week, all roads in Tower Hamlets have been designated as having a 20mph speed limit – except the red routes which run through the borough. However, putting up the new speed limit signs and marking up the ...

It was a strange Cabinet meeting on Wednesday (8th April) as politicians ploughed on with getting the necessary jobs done while waiting for the verdict of the election court – and, for that matter, the verdict of the electorate at ...

The London Borough of Tower Hamlets celebrated its 50th birthday on 1st April. Staff gathered in the Town Hall to mark the occasion. A cake was cut. Senior staff said appropriate things – including inviting residents to send in words ...

Tower Hamlet’s Council’s award winning Zero Emissions Network (ZEN) hosted a daytime pop-event on Wednesday in Brick Lane. The event involved a display of electric cars, cargo bikes and bike mechanics. The council has partnered with the London boroughs of ...

Pupils at Woolmore Primary School have been talking about the excitement of being in their wonderful new school building. The children moved in to their new surroundings, built directly next to the Victorian buildings of their former school, at the ...

Tower Hamlets parents and carers can get to grips with real nappies at a special “Nappuccino” event from 10am to 12 noon on Tuesday, 17th March at at Whitechapel Idea Store, 321 Whitechapel Road, E1 1BU. The council will be working with ...

Tower Hamlets residents have just one more week to give the council and its partners their views on the borough’s priorities for the next five years. The Tower Hamlets Community Plan sets out the way in which the borough’s public, ...