IT WAS ALL bloomin’ marvellous at the annual Tower Hamlets in Blooom awards 2024, as residents flocked to ceremony to see individual residents and community groups recognised for their horticultural skills. Gardeners help to make the borough a brighter and ...

Tower Hamlets has been chosen as a finalist in the Britain in Bloom competition – one of only two London Councils to be nominated! The Britain in Bloom competition is organised by the Royal Horticultural Society. It’s a national competition ...

THERE’S STILL plenty going on at Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park as Spring flowers and wildlife enjoy the season. Sadly, formal events have had to be cancelled indefinitely. The lack of events means that the Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park ...

Move over Chelsea Flower Show – East Enders have the chance to show off their horticultural skills in the Council’s annual gardening competition. The Tower Hamlets in Bloom competition rewards those who help to make the borough bright and beautiful. ...

All keen gardeners have the chance to show off their horticultural skills by entering the 2014 Tower Hamlets in Bloom competition. From balconies, community gardens and allotments to patios, businesses and schools… the competition is open to anyone who makes ...

OLDER RESIDENTS in Tower Hamlets have welcomed Executive Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s decision to offer pensioners a Winter Fuel Payment if the Government has kicked them off the national scheme. But he’s not the only one with winter fuel costs on ...

IT WAS JOY all round as the campaign to secure a queer venue – a replacement for the much loved and sorely missed Joiners Arms in Hackney Road – seemed to be moving a step nearer to its goal. The ...

YES, most of us celebrated Easter last weekend – but Manorfield Primary School in Poplar seems to be running on the Greek Orthodox calendar. It is raffling ten luxury Easter Eggs to raise funds for children in need during the ...

Emdad Rahman TEAM LEGEND, sponsored by Tower Hamlets Estate Agents Hunter & Bloomfield, used their weekly football get together to raise awareness of the plight of the Rohingya people of Burma.  The Rohingya are being subjected to ongoing persecution and ...

Older residents from the borough were invited to a shake off the winter blues at a Spring Tea Dance on 19th March. As the weather perks up and daffodils are in bloom, residents were treated to a fun afternoon of ...