With the election of the next London Mayor less than six months away, it’s not surprising to see Labour councillors keen to back a candidate in this important political race. It is very strange, though, to find Labour Councillors bigging ...

Labour’s John “two jobs” Biggs is looking into how to make his Administration more transparent: according to Councillors Shahed Ali and Oliur Rahman, he could make a good start by coming clean over the Rich Mix Centre. The two Independent ...

Council confirms move to Whitechapel After a six month delay, during which John Biggs tried – and failed – to find fault with Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s decision to move the Tower Hamlets Civic Centre to Whitechapel, the plan’s back on. ...

Mystery was surrounding the discovery of 150 Islamic books today… in the Limehouse Cut, a canal which runs through Tower Hamlets. The Metropolitan Police attended and rescued the books from the water – not so much an exercise in rescuing ...

The meeting ended at 22.46.  Good night. 22.34  Cllr Clare Harrison then moved motion 12.10, which was on the Trade Union Bill currently going through Parliament.  Cllr Saunders seconded the motion.  Both spoke up, as you might expect, for trade union ...

Petrofac Training Cup semi final Queen’s Park 1-2 Peterhead Emdad Rahman reports from Hampden Park. A first half winner from Leighton McIntosh at Hampden Park was enough for Peterhead to reach the first senior cup final in their 124 year ...

Serafino is set to change football Emdad Rahman A number of footballing icons attended the European Launch of The Serafino 4th Edge boot which is set to revolutionise football. As the stars descended on the capital to support the innovative new footwear, it was ...

Reseach carried out by the Alzheimer’s Society shows that 850,000 people in the UK have a form of dementia – with one new person being diagnosed with the condition every three minutes. The Society champions the rights of people living ...

Emdad Rahman A team from the UK-based charity Human Relief Foundation (HRF) has returned from visiting various locations in Jordan to distribute aid to the most vulnerable refugees. Volunteers handed out school stationery kits to young children in Madaba, distributed over ...

New Zealand beat England 9-2 at Olympic Stadium to level Test Emdad Rahman In a historic first rugby league game to be played at the London 2012 Olympic Stadium, New Zealand beat England 9-2 in the second game to level ...