New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) – the formal name for substances more usually referred to as “legal highs” – are chemicals which have been designed to mimic the effects of illegal drugs. Although, like illegal drugs, they can give people who ...

John Biggs is to reveal his Cabinet at tonight’s reconvened AGM of Tower Hamlets Council – but BD News 24 is reporting who the Cabinet will be. Expected Cabinet John Biggs has already announced that instead of having just one ...

Emdad Rahman The Rural Development Foundation (RDF) Global held an Iftar (fast breaking) event at Regents Lake to discuss the maternity support projects being undertaken by the charity’s volunteers and officers. The programme was hosted by Hafiz Naeem. Speakers included ...

The idiosyncratic electoral processes of the Labour Party are once more on the march as the Party elects a new leadership team. And for a few days, there was a danger that Bethnal Green & Bow MP Rushanara Ali may ...

Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s work on protecting residents from Tory welfare cuts has been praised as a model for other councils to follow. As Tower Hamlets voters went to the polls in the mayoral election, The Joseph Rowntree Foundation published a report (11th ...

Last week the London Bangla newspaper shared a snapshot of the Tower Hamlets Labour Party website page devoted to John Biggs. Although it had been updated to show that Biggs was now Tower Hamlets mayor (as well as remaining a ...

Traffic chaos raged through the Whitechapel area last week – and the bad news is that it is set to go on till September. The traffic situation was already bad due to the Transport for London (TfL) roadworks that stretch ...

Cllr Peter Golds has become one of the latest victims of the “I am stranded and need money” email scam. The scam involves hackers taking over the victim’s email account and sending out an email to everyone in their address ...

As Michelle Obama, First Lady of the USA, and her two daughters visited Mulberry School today, John Biggs made one of his first press statements as the Mayor of Tower Hamlets. John Biggs gushed: “It’s fantastic that the First Lady ...

Tower Hamlets is celebrating the end of a successful Carers Week, during which various groups across the borough have been raising awareness of what carers have to do and what services are available to support them. This year there was ...