Three honours winged their way to Tower Hamlets as the Queen issued her Birthday Honours List. The first two awards recognise work in the local public sector – by two women who work with the borough’s young people. Deborah Weston, Director ...

The City of London Corporation has announced that it will be closing Tower Bridge to traffic so that repairs can be carried out. The closure will begin in October and is expected to last until the end of the year. ...

Police are appealing for witnesses to a serious road traffic accident which took place in the early hours of Sunday, 29th May on Barking Road, London E6. A collision took place between a car and a motorcycle at approximately 00.15am. ...

Emdad Rahman In a sign of community unity, local people of different faiths, beliefs, gender and ethnicities have come together to deliver an innovative support campaign for impoverished Syrian citizens. The Iftar1000 volunteer team has been working flat out with ...

Activists from environmental pressure group Greenpeace are scaling key monuments across London to place over-sized surgical masks on them to protect them from pollution in the air. Police, ambulance and fire crews attended the various scenes and cordoned off areas ...

Tower Hamlets Mayor, John “two jobs” Biggs, is making sure that Mayor Lutfur’s vision for a new Town Hall in Whitechapel is coming together. As the Mulberry Place Town Hall was being demolished, so its owners could redevelop the site, ...

With the number of sex crimes on London Transport having risen by over a third last year, it’s quite the wrong time to close down the specialist sexual offences team which deals with these matters. Fortunately, British Transport Police have ...

A case study of the Holland Estate and why top down approaches to urban planning can only ever offer partial, skewed and arguably irrational solutions to London’s housing crisis. By Dr Alex Rhys-Taylor For the past two years the residents of ...

At one minute past 7pm on Friday, 9th February 1996 a massive boom swirled round the Isle of Dogs – a noise few residents had heard before. Residents felt their blocks sway. Looking out the window, residents saw a swirl ...

John “two jobs” Biggs has taken time out of his busy schedule juggling with two full-time jobs to steer through a new contract for advertising in some of the borough’s bus shelters. Beijing may have nine million bicycles, but Tower ...