AT LAST! Tower Hamlets Council’s Children’s Services has been awarded an “outstanding” rating, following an inspection by Ofsted at the end of last year. And Labour stalwarts tried to claim the credit. The Council meeting on 22nd January began with ...

IT IS HARD to know who has come out of the Tulip Siddiq saga the worse: her, the MP for Hampstead & Highgate and former Economic Secretary to the Treasury; or him, Leader of the Labour Party and UK Prime ...

A MAYOR will always want to implement their Manifesto – but some, it seems, will find it easier than others. For example… In 2015, Labour’s John Biggs promised that if he was elected he would give the Rich Mix Centre ...

A UNITED pensioner community came out to welcome Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s winter fuel payment last week. The launch was held to mark fuethe day when letters were sent out to pensioners eligible to claim the Council’s payment. Mayor Rahman was ...

AFTER 42 happy years in a warehouse on a roundabout in Poplar, Billingsgate Fish Market may be living out its last days. The market is owned by the City of London, and it seems that the Men in Suits are ...

Government inspectors spent several months in Tower Hamlets Council this year, inspecting the Council’s observance of its “Best Value” obligations. Their report was released on Tuesday, 12th November. Below we print the Council’s response to the report. A link to ...

IT WAS not so much the knights of the round table as the suited and booted politicians of the round table as London Mayor Sadiq Khan sat politicians, experts and campaigners down on 29th October to discuss an Action Plan ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council has been successful in applying to the Make Every Adult Matter (MEAM) Network. Yes, we’re delighted to. What does it mean? No idea, really. The announcement came in a Council press release dated 23rd October. This much ...

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 ...