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 Department for Education has released figures showing the percentages of students progressing to university in all English Boroughs. Tower Hamlets is the only inner London borough to appear in the top ten: the Borough is in joint seventh position, ...

The Government’s own figures show that homelessness in London has risen for the fourth year running – that’s since the Coalition first took office. A record 29,152 households have declared themselves homeless this year – a 10% increase on last ...

Students at Bow School have praised their new surroundings after moving into their £30million new building. Tower Hamlets Council partnered with developer Bouygues UK to deliver the state-of-the-art new school at Bow Lock on time and on budget. The completion ...

Roman Road will host its inaugural cultural extravaganza next week – the highest-profile activity to be supported by a new Tower Hamlets Council initiative which puts power in the hands of residents. The Roman Road Festival will showcase heritage, entertainment ...

Tower Hamlets Council and police are continuing the fight against drugs in the borough, this month seizing cannabis with a street value of £5,000 in a raid in Stepney. The drugs were discovered when Partnership Task Force (PTF) officers entered ...

England captain Steven Gerrard may boast a £3.9m mansion but it’s a far cry from the modest home he grew up in on a tough council estate in Liverpool. Gerrards Lane in Merseyside and Gerrard Street in London may both ...

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 ...

We all know the old joke about doctors having poor handwriting: but it’s come to something when confused communication spreads across the whole NHS – and then jumps the species barrier from handwritten to computer generated copy, as is the ...