IN HIS OWN WORDS, Lutfur Rahman described the budget that he intends to bring to the Council in February. He was speaking at the Cabinet meeting on Wednesday, 7th January. The budget papers before the Cabinet were not the final ...

THE TOXIN cereulide has been found in SMA Infant Formula and Follow-on Forumula – and Nestlé is recalling the product. Cereulide is unlikely to be destroyed by heat – such as the boiling water used to make up formula. If ...

CLLR BODRUL Choudhury, Aspire councillor for Bromley South, is steaming with fury on behalf of residents in two tower blocks in his ward. “I am very concerned about the situation at Gayton House and Sleaford House,” he explained.  “These large blocks ...

HE LOVED Tower Hamlets.  And Tower Hamlets loved him back. The announcement that Simon Baxter, Corporate Director for Communities, has died after a short illness has been met with genuine sadness across the borough. The news that Simon had passed ...

THE TOWER HAMLETS Council Cabinet met on Wednesday, 7th January – in what was probably the warmest room in the Town Hall.  The meeting had a single main item on the agenda: the budget for 2026/27 – but it began ...

CHECK THE fridge! Have you bought coarse farmhouse, coarse Ardennes or smooth chicken liver pate from Tesco? These products have been labelled with the wrong “use-by” date and they may be unsafe to eat. Tesco has recalled the pate and ...

WHILE THE Labour Government was making life harder for migrants by taking their mobile phones away, Tower Hamlets Council was recognising the achievements of sanctuary seekers who have been improving their education and making the most of volunteering opportunities. The ...

AS PART OF the Labour Government’s campaign to crack down on migrants, Keir Starmer has given “border authorities” the power to seize phones from “illegal migrants”. Bet Farage didn’t think of that one. The Government’s thinking is that migrants’ phones ...

ELN: US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro, President of Venezuela. This is so wrong on so many levels that it is hard to know where to begin. We are not fools There is no justification for breaking ...

IT WAS back in 1997 that the new Labour Government capped class sizes for children aged 5-7 to just 30 pupils. That achievement has endured – and class sizes across England are below that magic number. But the bare numbers ...