GOT SOMETHING to move? A bit of shopping, some furniture – or even some children? And want to stay green at the same time?  You could be a suitable candidate for Tower Hamlets Council’s new Shared Cargo Bike scheme. Let’s ...

HOW MUCH screen time should young children enjoy? The Government has now issued new guidance on this topic – and an East London professor’s research has contributed to the findings. Professor Sam Wass, Director of the Institute for the Science ...

ONE DISGUSTED customer – disgusted because the crisps he had bought had been gnawed by mice – reported his discovery to Tower Hamlets Council. And the Council sprang into action to follow up the complaint. The purchase was made two ...

Emdad Rahman Cricket has long been a game of tradition, patience and passion, and for MJ Hasan that lifelong love for the sport has reached a proud new milestone. Hasan has been accepted as a Candidate Member of the prestigious ...

THE US hasn’t put a ring on it, yet – but it has established formal diplomatic and consular relations with Venezuela. A statement accompanying the news said that the two countries will work together to promote stability, support economic recovery ...

STUPENDOUS. UNPRECEDENTED. A game changer. That’s the mainstream media’s reaction to the Green Party’s victory in the Gorton and Denton by-election. Are they jumping the gun? First, the result. Green Party, 14,980 (41%) Reform UK, 10,578 (29%) Labour, 9,364 (26%) ...

MAYOR LUTFUR RAHMAN began the Cabinet meeting last week – taking place during the first week of Ramadan – by extending Ramadan greetings to everyone in the Town Hall and the community. He explained how important Ramadan is to Muslims, ...

OVER THE last four years, Mayor Lutfur Rahman has lived up to his promises and transformed the Tower Hamlets Youth Service. Gone are the Biggs days, when the Labour Mayor expected young people to share just eight hubs across the ...

IT’S NEVER easy for a political party to write its manifesto. Usually the problem is how to condense all their aspirations, all the things they want to achieve, into a short snappy statement that people will read. But when it ...

STARMER knows this is serious. It was bad enough when an enlivened Kemi Badenoch seized the gift of the Mandelson scandal to give the Prime Minister a firm telling off in the House of Commons – but now his own ...