BREAKING NEWS: An elderly woman remains in shock this afternoon (Thursday, 17th September) after two men tricked their way into her flat on the Ocean estate. The men were both white and described themselves as legitimate visitors. It is not ...

IT’S TIME TO TALK! After months of insisting that it was the end of the road for negotiating over new contracts for Council staff, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs has agreed to meet Unison to talk about the ongoing ...

WE CLAPPED NHS workers; we clapped key workers employed by Local Authorities; we clapped for public sector workers. As national lockdown eases, are these key workers still getting the recognition they deserve? A look at the campaigns currently being promoted ...

JOURNALISM is not a crime! Nonetheless, Julian Assange will attend an extradition hearing at the Old Bailey on Monday, 7th September – and the Stop the War Coalition is among the groups supporting a protest which will gather from 9am ...

AS WORLD leaders look for a way to repair a global economy deeply injured by the first wave of Coronavirus, we look this month at the struggle between the wealthy and the workers – and what has been said about ...

HOW DO YOU think of Tower Hamlets? Is it a green borough, with acres of grass, splendid trees and havens for urban wildlife? Or is it a collection of parallel dual carriageways taking people from east to west, channels built ...

THE MUSLIM PROFESSIONALS FORUM has welcomed the sentence handed out by the Court in New Zealand to Brenton Tarrant – an Australian national and white supremacist dubbed the “Islamophobic terrorist”. Tarrant had burst into the Al Noor Mosque in Christchurch ...

PRESSURE IS mounting on Labour Councillors as Tower Hamlets Unison branch conducted its third set of three days of strike action in protest at management imposing new contracts on the Council workforce. As strike action began, ten Labour Councillors signed ...

A TODDLER has died after falling from a window in his flat on the ninth floor of a high rise block in Haberdasher Street, Shoreditch. The accident occurred at around 4pm yesterday, Friday, 14th August. The toddler fell from a ...

ONE OF THE changes which the Tower Rewards contracts have brought into Tower Hamlets Council staff terms and conditions is a massive reduction in the contractual redundancy pay to which staff were previously entitled. Unions and service users alike are ...