NINETY-FIVE new social homes for rent are opening their doors to residents on the Tower Hamlets housing waiting list. The homes have been built by local housing association East End Homes. Mayor Lutfur Rahman turned out to cut the ribbon ...

FROM 8 TO 180,000 – that’s the story of how Tower Hamlets Youth Services has progressed from the Labour ragbag of provision to the unified, coherent Young Tower Hamlets today. Eight? That was the number of youth centres which Labour ...

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 ...

A “PEOPLE’S BUDGET” has been passed by Tower Hamlets Council on Wednesday, 26th February, after nearly three hours of debate. This was the third budget proposed by Mayor Lutfur Rahman since he was elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, for the ...

AS THE “Season of Bangla Drama” comes of age with its 21st annual theatre festival, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor Lutfur Rahman has congratulated all involved. “We are so proud that Tower Hamlets continues to champion this fantastic platform for homegrown ...

ON THE FACE of it, this has to be good news. The Metropolitan Police have just announced that 16 people were arrested in Tower Hamlets and Hackney during a recent “hit day”, bringing total arrests to 145 since March 2020. ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has announced that there will be two snap exhibitions this week where the public can see the most up to date plans for the new Town Hall in Whitechapel. This is the last chance to see the ...

The smallest things can have the biggest influence on a political career. If then Labour Leader Michael Foot had put a different coat on that day he went to the Cenotaph, perhaps he would have become Prime Minister. His crime, ...

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, ...

Hidden away among the news on Budget day was a Metropolitan Police announcement: that there will be no criminal prosecutions arsing out of the Judgement in the Election Court issued in April 2015. Though this was always the most likely ...