THEY MAY HAVE come out in their  thousands to vote for him in two months ago – 44,865 of them, up from just 32,754 in 2015 – but Tower Hamlets voters were not coming out to Executive Mayor John Biggs’s Ask ...

JOHN BIGGS, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has moved to close the borough’s last remaining three day care nurseries. The move comes after Labour ran a campaign to keep the nurseries open when the former Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, proposed closing ...

LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn MP visited refugee camps in Jordan at the end of June to mark World Refugee Day – and from there he called on the UK and European governments to do more to help refugees. Corbyn implored ...

THE SEVEN men and women arrested in the major anti-drugs operation on 12th June have been charged with related offences. Six of the seven appeared at Thames Magistrates’ Court the day after the arrests and were remanded in custody, to ...

CAMPAIGNERS FROM Save Our Nurseries tried to find a crumb of comfort in their campaign this weekend – by taking a giant cake to an event where John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, was due to speak. The campaigners ...

WITH EID HAVING been celebrated last week and the summer weather beckoning everyone outdoors, it’s fortunate that at least two major cities will be holding outdoor Eid Festivals this weekend. The Eid Festival at Old Trafford in Manchester is also ...

“HE’S NO George Lansbury, is he?” was the response from one mum on finding out that John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is going to close the remaining three Council day care nurseries in Tower Hamlets. “Is this how he’s going ...

THE TORY Government has a failing record on building social homes, says John Healey MP, Labour’s Shadow Housing Secretary. Healey was speaking as new statistics were released showing that the number of government funded socially rented homes being built has ...

AS MILLIONS OF Muslims around the world celebrated Eid, violence was escalating in the strife-torn country of Yemen – and the Islamic Relief charity was stepping up its relief operations to meet the humanitarian consequences. Fighting intensified around the port ...

Muhammad Ismael The British Bangladesh Society celebrated Ramadan by breaking fast with members of the community while also taking part in an inclusive Dementia Friends information session. The session was delivered by Emdad Rahman MBE and hosted by Chair Nasir ...