The Council meeting on Wednesday, 30th July was the first proper meeting since the May elections (the meeting on 11th June was concerned only with AGM business). There were a number of new councillors present at their first proper meeting ...

A retrospective exhibition of artist Dan Jones’s work spanning more than 40 years has opened at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archives. The exhibition features over 50 of Dan’s paintings and posters reflecting East End life and history, with ...

Since the Tories headed up the Coalition after the 2010 General Election, they have been making cuts in public spending and presiding over austerity measures which have made life harder for ordinary Eastenders. Government attacks such as the bedroom tax ...

It’s hard to keep a secret in Tower Hamlets – so all credit to East End Homes for keeping the outcome of their meeting last week totally under wraps. By way of context, you should know that when Labour Councillors ...

Operation Valour is a project commemorating the police officers from K Division (what is now Newham, Tower Hamlets, Redbridge and Barking & Dagenham boroughs) who enlisted in the armed forces during the First World War and were subsequently killed in ...

Four East London schools made the finals of the British Land’s Kids Cricket Inclusive League held earlier this month at the MCC Indoor Centre at Lord’s Cricket Ground. St Luke’s C of E Primary School (Tower Hamlets) and Homeleigh Primary ...

The Council’s Targeted Youth Support (TYS) team organised an event called “MyFuture” on 26th June at Mile End Ecology Pavilion. It was a jobs fair, designed to help young people not in education, employment or training (NEETS). Over 20 organisations ...

Last Thursday, 3,000 people went to the polls in Blackwall & Cubitt Town (BCT), to vote in a by-election. On Saturday, some 600 people marched through Tower Hamlets to protest against government funding cuts to GP surgeries. It’s a contemporary ...

The Coalition Government is trying to run down social housing in favour of using public money to subsidise private renting deals – keeping house prices high enough to avoid another immediate recession. They have put all sorts of restrictions on ...

BBC London radio personality Eddie Nestor hit the streets of Tower Hamlets today (Tuesday, 17th June) with Mayor Lutfur Rahman on a whistle stop tour to see the real Tower Hamlets. Eddie visited the council’s flagship regeneration schemes including Poplar ...