LONDON BANGLA COMMENT: LABOUR COUNCILLORS are having a hard time of it lately – looking for new ground to occupy now that their party is in national government but is still giving local government a hard time. For many voters, ...

IT’S NOT THE first time that Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor Lutfur Rahman has stepped in to save the people of Tower Hamlets from Government cuts. But it is the first time he has had to save us from Labour Party ...

LONDON BANGLA COMMENT: A spirit of constructive governing broke out at Tower Hamlets Council on 27th July 2022 – the first scheduled full Council meeting since the election (the AGM in May dealt only with formalities). It was so different ...

ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We have looked at Labour’s and Aspire’s candidates for ...

ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We’ll be looking at all the mayoral candidates in ...

ON 5th MAY, London’s voters will be going to the polls. All local council seats are up for election – as are Directly Elected Mayors, in those boroughs which have them. We’ll be looking at all the mayoral candidates in ...

HIS FIRST mayoral election victory came in 2010. The second happened in 2014. Now, as he prepares to launch his campaign, Lutfur Rahman is hoping he can make it the third victory in a row in 2022. A win in ...

A FIRE broke out on the 17th floor of a 21 story tower block in Whitechapel High Street late this afternoon, 7th March. The building is believed to be the Relay building, which includes flats, offices and shops and stands ...

Muhi Mikdad London Enterprise Academy celebrated International Mother Language Day on Monday, 21st February – for the seventh year running. Year 7 pupils marked the day with a cooking class and making traditional Bangladeshi snacks. They also had an art ...

KNIFE CRIME – and the closely related issue of drug trafficking – has been a concern throughout Tower Hamlets, but especially on the Isle of Dogs, where a number of violent incidents took place last year. The Island Network has ...