CRICKET IS one of the most popular sports in the UK – and Tower Hamlets is the London Borough where that popularity is growing the fastest. It’s welcome news, then, that the Council is creating a natural turf pitch in ...

THE PALESTINIAN struggle for freedom is being celebrated at the Rich Mix Centre in Tower Hamlets with an exhibition and a series of performances running through November. The series of events will be launched formally at the Rich Mix centre ...

THE WORLD seems to be full of random refugees. They fled persecution, they suffered a natural disaster, they were attacked in a confict not of their making… There’s many reasons why people have found themselves labelled as “refugee”. There is, ...

THE 2024 UN Climate Change Conference (COP) is taking place in oil-rich Baku, capital of Azerbaijan, under the slogan “In Solidarity for a Green World”. There’s an even larger climate change project happening on the other side of the world ...

Government inspectors spent several months in Tower Hamlets Council this year, inspecting the Council’s observance of its “Best Value” obligations. Their report was released on Tuesday, 12th November. Below we print the Council’s response to the report. A link to ...

IT’S OUT. The Best Value Inspectors sent into Tower Hamlets Council by the last Government have produced their report and it will be out on Tuesday, 12th November. We know this, because it says so in The Guardian. The Guardian ...

AN URGENT call to action has been issued by activists who support the right of Francesa Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur on the Occuied Palestinian Territories to speak to university audiences. Francesca wants to publicise her observations of the brutality Palestinians ...

CONVICTED! That’s what has happened to five individuals and two companies who had been letting out flats – using a number of illegal and unfair practices. And it happened after a tireless investigation by Tower Hamlets Council trading standards officers. ...

A MAN WITH a crossbow is not what you expect to see in sleepy Alfred Street, E3. But that is what one member of the public encountered between midday and 12.30pm on Monday, 21st October. The member of the public ...

AFTER YEARS OF campaigning, it looks like politicians are finally acknowledging the need for more housing in the UK – particularly social housing. And after similar years of grassroots campaigning, politicians are also recognising how important – and underfunded – ...