YOUNG PEOPLE in Tower Hamlets are unstoppable. All too often we hear about the problems young people cause – but on 5th December Tower Hamlets Council celebrated what the borough’s engaged youth community has achieved. The achievement was marked at ...

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 ...

Emdad Rahman Celebrations are in order after the Inner London Football League received The Recognised Project Award at the celebrated London Dangoor Awards by The Faith & Belief Forum. The celebrations are an annual celebration of the diverse efforts of ...

YOU COULDN’T see the trees for the Wood at the November meeting of Tower Hamlets Council. The trees are surrounded by wonky paving stones: and Isle of Dogs resident Andrew Wood was petitioning the Council about them. However, Mr Wood’s ...

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 ...

We spoke to Deputy Mayor Cllr Maium Talukdar, Cabinet Member for Education, Youth and Lifelong Learning and councillor for Canary Wharf ward about the women’s takeover of the Tiller Road Be Well Centre. “Lutfur Rahman promised,” said Cllr Talukdar, “and ...

CRICKET IS one of the most popular sports in the UK – and Tower Hamlets is the London Borough where that popularity is growing the fastest. It’s welcome news, then, that the Council is creating a natural turf pitch in ...

CONVICTED! That’s what has happened to five individuals and two companies who had been letting out flats – using a number of illegal and unfair practices. And it happened after a tireless investigation by Tower Hamlets Council trading standards officers. ...

AN EXPERIENCED Labour Party Councillor who resigned from the Party four months ago in concern over the direction the Party was taking has now joined the Aspire Party in Tower Hamlets Council. Cllr Sabina Akhtar, who represents Stepney Green Ward, ...

Emdad Rahman Lifelong bodybuilding sensation and East Londoner Taj Ahmed has fulfilled a lifelong ambition to make his mark in the physical world of bodybuilding. The remarkable fifty year old Tower Hamlets resident stormed to victory in the British Physique ...