It’s the budget-making meeting of the Council: we’re hoping to bring you an almost live update. We have started with a petition, though – it’s a petition on the budget. The petitioner has asked Mayor Rahman and Tower Hamlets First ...

Nineteen gang members have been given injunctions for a variety of offences thanks to evidence provided by Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (THEOs) around Wyllen Close, E1. Tower Hamlets Enforcement Officers (THEOs) are a uniformed council service formed in September 2009, ...

Day one: and three victims are off the hook. We cannot stress enough that all political parties which stood candidates in last May’s mayoral and councillor elections signed an election protocol before nominations closed. Under its terms, they agreed to ...

It started today – but already all charges against one of the Defendants have been dropped. After last May’s mayoral election, four individual Tower Hamlets electors petitioned the election court, claiming that Lutfur Rahman could not have won the election ...

Emdad Rahman The Engage Podcast was started in mid-January of 2011 and since then the team has produced and recorded a total of 39 episodes (excluding the Promo). Last June the team was invited to do a Fan Panel at ...

Mike Marqusee, an author who combined a passion for sport with an equally strong devotion to equality, died on 13th January in St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney. Born in the USA, Mike came to the UK to go to university ...

Emdad Rahman interviews Rangers, Milan and England legend Mark Hateley. I grew up excitedly watching Mark Hateley terrorise defences. The Englishman was a swashbuckling hero of a figure. After the exploits of Frank McAvennie at Celtic, it was high time ...

The English National Opera (ENO) will once more be beaming performances from its home in the London Coliseum to 350 cinemas across the UK. Tickets are now on sale for the three performances, which are: La Traviata – Wednesday, 15th ...

As the year draws to a close, yet another one of our young citizens has had his life ended before his time by hatred turning into mindless violence – and we are left asking how it is that we have ...

21.16  Kathy McTasney said there had been many rumours and fingers being pointed: which organisations receive mainstream funding, and is it just Bengladeshi and Somali groups?  Cllr Chowdhury said that funding was given out in response to need.  Most funding ...