THE STORY of the five year old child who was fined by Tower Hamlets Council for running a lemonade stall outside her home has gone around the world. The little girl set up her stall on the route taken by people going from the ...
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We won’t be silenced on community safety!
IT WASN’T so much a Council meeting as a Labour Rally in the Town Hall last week – and, once again, the meeting failed to discuss topical motions tabled by opposition councillors. Now Tower Hamlets councillors are going to make ...
Read More »Sporting youngsters to lobby Council tonight
SUPPORTERS OF the Tower Hamlets Youth Sports Foundation (THYSF) will be lobbying the Council tonight to protest against a lack of funding for this organisation – and its extensive programme of sport enjoyed by young people across the borough. The ...
Read More »Inde Cllr Ohid Ahmed hi-fives Mayor on safety
A SET of five motions coming to next Wednesday’s Council meeting as the Independent Group of councillors puts forward a strategy to make the Borough a safer place. When he was Deputy Mayor, Cllr Ohid had a special brief for ...
Read More »Manorfield School scoops tasty award
PUPILS AT Manorfield primary school in Tower Hamlets launched their edible playground last week. No – they’re not down on their knees gnawing at the tarmac. The pupils are growing fruit and veg – and scoffing it when it’s ready for ...
Read More »Help campaigners save TH Youth Sport
IT IS A FIGHT for survival, as Tower Hamlets Youth Sport Foundation (THYSF) tries to stave off cuts which Tower Hamlets Labour Mayor, John Biggs, is planning to the Council’s trailblazing youth sports service. Youth and community leaders across the ...
Read More »Two dead in crane collapse
A CRANE collapsed onto a house in Crewe, Cheshire – leaving two men dead and three people in hospital. The incident occurred at approximately 4.30pm as the crane was working on a new housing estate near the Bombardier manufacturing site. ...
Read More »PATH Councillors want fire safety answers from Mayor
TOWER HAMLETS PATH Councillors have launched a petition calling on Labour’s Executive Mayor, John Biggs, to undertake a number of measures to improve fire safety in the Borough. Already the petition is gathering support at a rate of knot, with ...
Read More »Inde Councillors call on MPs to act on fire safety
TOWER HAMLETS Independent Group of Councillors has marked the Queen’s Speech by sending an Open Letter to the two Labour MPs in Tower Hamlets – Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar & Limehouse) and Rushanara Ali (Bethnal Green & Bow), The Letter deals ...
Read More »Police help SMEs to become fraud aware
LONDON’S SMALL BUSINESSES are increasingly being targeted by online criminals who are trying to exploit weaknesses in their IT systems. Now the Metropolitan Police are trying to help those businesses protect themselves. The London Mayor and Metropolitan Police set up ...
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