A LARGE PART of the Labour Manifesto has been revealed to the world by a Tower Hamlets Labour Party Officer – apparently in advance of any formal launch of the document as a whole. Adam Allnutt has quoted the document ...
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Biggs accepts call to stand up to racism
JOHN BIGGS, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, went to the East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre last week to receive a petition handed to him by Dilowar Khan, Director of Engagement for the Mosque. The petition called for action ...
Read More »Biggs sells off nurseries: fury grows
AS JOHN BIGGS – Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets – keeps tight lipped about his intention to sell off the last three Council day care nurseries to alternative providers, more people are coming forward to condemn the plans. Cllr Rabina ...
Read More »New advice on what to do if your child is ill
NEW RESOURCES to help parents work out what to do if their child is ill have been launched in Tower Hamlets. Is this a way to reassure worried parents or part of a larger move to restrict access to NHS ...
Read More »Biggs refuses to bow to public pressure on nurseries
THE RESULTS OF THE public consultation on privatising the Council’s three remaining day nurseries begin to emerge, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs has promised to “see if [the proposals] can be improved”. Campaigners had been calling for the privatisation ...
Read More »Rohingya face further crisis as monsoon looms
REFUGEES who are surviving precariously in refugee areas in Bangladesh are facing further difficulties with the coming of the monsoon season – and many may have to flee yet again. Many of the latest refugees are surviving in makeshift camps ...
Read More »Visitors flock to East London Mosque
HUNDREDS OF members of the community visited the East London Mosque – London’s largest Mosque – and London Muslim Centre today, Sunday, 19th February. They came as part of the Visit My Mosque Day, a national initiative of the Muslim ...
Read More »Sadiq Khan “for the few, not the many”
WHEN LABOUR PARTY supporters elected Jeremy Corbyn as their Leader, many were looking forward to an era of fairer funding – with money being allocated according to need. They are going to have to wait a while in London. Although ...
Read More »Jail for man who promoted Daesh
AN EAST LONDON MAN has been jailed for two years for encouraging terrorism. Shafi Mohammed Saleem, 28, used over 20 Twitter and Instagram handles to pump out images and messages promoting Daesh over several months. Metropolitan Police detectives investigated the ...
Read More »Four family members guilty of drugs charges
IT WAS THE TWO packages sent to their address in Lansbury Avenue, Romford, that led to their downfall. The packages, batches of herbal cannabis, sent in December 2015 and April 2016, were intercepted by the National Crime Agency, based at ...
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