THIS is the unacceptable face of Priti Patel MP, Home Secretary – or maybe it’s just one of them… “[We need to] reduce the levels of people coming to the UK with low skills.” UK Home Secretary, Priti Patel MP, ...
Read More »Author Archives: admin1
Tower Hamlets budget: another farce; another tragedy
IT WAS business as usual down on the Tower Hamlets Council meeting on Wednesday, 19th February as the ruling Labour Group managed to force its budget through. As the agenda item began, Executive Mayor John Biggs introduced his Budget to ...
Read More »No free movement for low skilled workers
THE GOVERNMENT has announced that low skilled workers will not be eligible to apply for visas to work in the UK once the Brexit process is complete next year. The will come as a great disappointment to many owners and ...
Read More »Thought for today 18.02.20
KEN CLARKE, veteran Tory Minister, has been complaining about Dominic Cummings having a public profile. Would Cummings’s machinations be any more bearable – or the elected Government be more accountable – if this unelected official were less visible? “You can’t ...
Read More »Will new Whipps Cross Hospital cut beds?
HOSPITAL PATIENTS in Waltham Forest have long felt the poor relation in the Barts NHS Trust family – with a hospital that is well overdue for refurbishment. Now a Whipps Cross Hospital is to be delivered. Boris Johnson promised, before ...
Read More »Woman serious after Tower Hamlets collision
A COLLISION between a female pedestrian and a car has left the pedestrian in hospital – with serious injuries. The collision took place just after 9am on Monday, 17th February, on Commercial Road. The London Ambulance Service took the pedestrian ...
Read More »Thought for today 17.02.20
BORIS JOHNSON has been trying to control the political advisers working at No. 11 Downing Street – but perhaps he should have been looking a little more closely over who was working back at No. 10. The rest of us ...
Read More »Who’s the Hackney Downs stabbing suspect?
POLICE HAVE RELEASED a CCTV image of a man they wish to interview after a man was stabbed outside Hackney Downs Overground station on Dalston Lane. The incident occurred on Friday, 24th January. The victim, a 19 year old man, ...
Read More »Sounds on Sunday: 50 years on/1
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 ...
Read More »Child critical after Newham collision
A TEN YEAR OLD BOY is in an East London hospital with serious head injuries after a collision in Barking Road, E6, near Emerald Avenue. The collision occurred just before 8pm on Thursday, 13th February – between a vehicle and ...
Read More »
East London News A Force for the community…