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 ...
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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 »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 »Council continues crack down on drugs
SEVENTEEN ARRESTS have been made since 1st January in a joint operation – “Operation Continuum” between Tower Hamlets Council and Tower Hamlets police. There is no explanation of what “Operation Continuum” is. In the second anti-drug operation held under Operation ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets is tops for LGBT staff
TOWER HAMLETS Council is the only Council including in Stonewall’s Top 100 UK Employers Index. Stonewall, which campaigns for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in Britain, publishes the list every year to encourage fairness at work. Stonewall ...
Read More »Is Wales facing extinction?
SIR ROBIN WALES, Mayor of Newham, is reported to be fighting for his political life as he goes through a Labour Party “trigger ballot” to determine whether he will be Labour’s candidate for mayor at this May’s elections. In most ...
Read More »Students: better off with Labour
AS THE TORIES fall apart trying to find a higher education policy they can all be happy with, Labour has sent out a firm message about what action needs to be taken to encourage students from all walks of life ...
Read More »Biggs in flawed attempt to be a Labour rebel
LABOUR LOYALIST John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is facing accusations of hypocrisy after adding his name to a letter in the Sunday Times headed “Labour Executive wrong to meddle”. In the letter, Labour Council Leaders declared independence from the Labour ...
Read More »Child poverty “wake up call for Labour” says Ohid
TOWER HAMLETS NOW has the highest percentage of children living in poverty in the UK – and Cllr Ahmed, the Independent Mayoral candidate for Tower Hamlets, is demanding urgent action by both central government and Executive Mayor John Biggs. Cllr Ahmed has ...
Read More »Biggs’s borough: child poverty hotspot
ALL EYES ARE turning to Executive Mayor John Biggs as it is revealed that children in four constituencies in the UK are more likely than not to grow up in poverty – and two of the four are in Tower ...
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