Mayor Lutfur Rahman made a point of standing up for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) residents. He was the first Mayor of Tower Hamlets to mention LGBT residents in his inauguration speech, and his Administration backed a number of ...

The Poplar & Limehouse Constituency Labour Party met last Tuesday to choose one candidate – from a long list of 18 – to put on the Labour Party’s ballot paper, from which members will chose who will be the Labour ...

David Cameron summed up his approach to “extremism” in one paragraph of the lengthy statement he made this week: “For all our successes as multi-racial, multi-faith democracy, we have to confront a tragic truth that there are people born and ...

Cllr Rabina Khan will take the lead at tonight’s meeting of Tower Hamlets Council (22nd July) – the first scheduled Council meeting since John Biggs squeaked to victory in the mayoral election – and call on John Biggs to run ...

Things are looking up for Swan Housing Association. The controversial social landlord suffered a setback in late 2012 when it was found that some of their employees had committed fraud by falsifying documents in order to claim a government grant ...

John Biggs, Member of the Greater London Assembly (GLA) for the City & East constituency, will be stepping down in May 2016. He has been a GLA member since 2000, and will have spent the last year of his GLA ...

Tower Hamlets Council has scooped a prestigious award for its work in preventing counterfeiting. The Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG) Awards are presented for outstanding achievement by individuals, companies or organisations involved in combating counterfeiting and piracy worldwide. ACG represents the ...

We’re all seeing double at Roman Road this month as the traditional Summer Festival, organised by the Roman Road Resident & Business Association and Tower Hamlets Council, will extend over two Sundays. Everyone’s welcome to go along: free events begin ...

Emdad Rahman On 11th July, a one day multiple arts festival will take place in Dagenham Village. Dagfest, is a new free, fun, outdoor festival for all ages featuring home-grown talent and international performers in the heart of Dagenham.It will ...

In the early 1980s, there was a man called Sid who lived in Poplar. He’d stomp through the area, telling anyone who’d listen about the bombing during the Second World War – which appeared to have been targeted at him ...