Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman has welcomed the final report of the Boundary Commission for England which sets out the new electoral arrangements for the Council.

Cllr Shahed Ali, Cabinet Member for Environment, has won a silver award in recognition of his leadership of the Council’s street cleaning strategy.

The National Housing Federation (NHF) styles itself as “the voice of affordable housing in England”. It aims to promote housing associations, claiming that its members “provide two and a half million homes for more than five million people” – and ...

A strong part of what makes up Tower Hamlets is the Borough’s Somali population. Over several years, it’s brought an extra dimension to this multicultural part of London. A strong seafaring nation, Somalia has produced many sailors who have visited ...

While opposition parties in Tower Hamlets do their best to rubbish the Town Hall Administration, the Local Government Chronicle has nominated the Council for seven of its local government awards which recognise achievement. This is one of the highest numbers ...

Victoria Park in Tower Hamlets has beaten off stiff competition to be crowned the nation’s favourite park in this year’s prestigious People’s Choice Award. Organised by Keep Britain Tidy’s Green Flag Plus Partnership, which gives out Green Flag status to ...

An Osborn Street restaurant has been prosecuted and fined for premises license breaches over the use of touts to generate custom. Mr Ali Akbar of Locton Green, Ruston Street, E3 (director of the company that owns the Sajna Restaurant on ...

Government assurances that the private sector would build the new homes Britain nee Hyper Facebook(tm) Traffic ds have fallen flat. Brand new figures show that the number of new homes registered in the third quarter of 2012 was 6% down ...

ELN: Isle of Dogs solicitor Mohammed Rahman, 32, was today given a life sentence for murdering his wife last Christmas,

It used to be that if you said, “I’m going to Asda to see the Greens,” you were popping across to the Isle of Dogs supermarket to see if they had any cabbage.