A Labour Borough, a Labour Mayor – and still people can’t find housing they can afford – or at all. This is the housing crisis that Shelter is campaigning against, the kind of people they are campaigning with and for… ...

Shelter has been doing amazing work for years now – helping individuals with housing problems, and also campaigning for progressive housing policies. It’s an increasingly difficult job. We all know there’s a housing crisis, but government policies are making it ...

The media is still finding it hard to understand how Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn operates. They have been goading him all over the winter break to undertake a Cabinet reshuffle – by which they mean man up, shout at some ...

Police are looking for Arthur Simpson-Kent, 48, in order to speak to him in connection with the disappearance of his partner Sian Blake and their two children. Detectives last spoke to him on 16th December, but he disappeared on 19th ...

The Conservative Way Forward (CWF) quotes David Cameron on their website, saying that CWF is “The largest and most effective pressure group within the Conservative movement today.” CWF had a day of action on the Isle of Dogs last year, ...

Labour’s John Biggs has balanced his budget – by getting local residents to dig into their pockets to make up the shortfall. Gone is Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s cast iron pledge protect the most vulnerable in our community – replaced with ...

You’ll be over the moooooon at Jack and the Beanstalk, a traditional pantomime with a cosmic twist – coming to Gants Hill later this month. If you haven’t booked your ticket yet, get those fingers clicking on the link below ...

Welcoming an award won by a park opened by Mayor Lutfur Rahman, Labour’s John Biggs said: “We are delighted that the Landscape Institute has awarded Derbyshire Pocket Park first prize in the ‘Design for a Small Scale Development’ category.” Not ...

Around 2,500 people in Tower Hamlets have a Freedom Pass which expires on 31st March, and Tower Hamlets Council has reminded them of the procedure for renewing the Pass. •First, pass-holders will receive a letter early this month explaining what ...

David Cameron will admit tomorrow that he cannot exert his authority on his own Cabinet, the BBC believes. The BBC claims that Prime Minister David Cameron will announce tomorrow that he will allow Cabinet Ministers to campaign either for or ...