POLICE EXECUTED a number of search warrants in Hackney last month – as a result of which seven people were arrested. A further two people – a male, 23, and a female, 24 – were taken into custody. The seven ...

TEACHERS, support staff and a massive range of administrative workers and community volunteers are rallying round across Tower Hamlets to support children who are not able to go into school during the current Lockdown. Support offered to Tower Hamlets school ...

This is a May Day message from Jeremy Corbyn MP. May Day is a traditional festival, a festival of Spring, a festival of communities coming together – and it goes back centuries. It’s also a labour movement tradition – solidarity ...

A SERIES OF violent actions in Barking led to Brandon Wallace being jailed last month. He had threatened a woman in an incident of domestic violence – and went on to spit at police trying to arrest him. Officers from ...

WAS THIS a measured judgement, or wishful thinking? Very few people would come forward wanting to be a slave – but how many people have the courage to be a consistent rebel? “I would rather be a rebel than a ...

POP MUSIC was once so new and daring: it’s shocking to think that it’s over 50 years old. Some standards have been around for over half a century… What, then, were we listening to 50 years ago? It was an ...

IT IS BAD ENOUGH that the General Secretary of a national trade union has had to step in and point out it will support its members in Tower Hamlets, who are opposing the Labour Mayor’s plan to impose new contracts ...

POLICE ARE traying to identify and locate the man in this picture, taken from CCTV after an incident last year on a W15 bus. The incident occurred at around 4.40pm on Wednesday, 16th October. A teenage girl got on to ...

WHAT BETTER way to mark International Workers Day than with a quote from the late, great Tony Benn? It’s often repeated – but so well worth learning and applying to most political situations. “If one meets a powerful person – ...

WE ALL appreciate what our health and care workers are going through – as the weekly “clap for the NHS” at 8pm on Thursdays shows. They are not just doing their jobs but going above and beyond as they care ...