There’s a certain alarm generated by the news that British Airways is sponsoring a rooftop film club situated on the top of Stratford’s multi-storey car park. Is the airline trying to edge out the humble petrol combustion engine vehicle? Is ...
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A letter from Murshad
Dear ELN, Here at the London Assembly we are doing some work to find out more about how Londoners access their GP. As a London-wide Assembly Member I am particularly interested to hear the views of the Bangladeshi community across ...
Read More »Boris gets it wrong on LFEPA
There is some tension between London’s Tory mayor Boris Johnson and the London Fire and Emergency Planning Authority (LFEPA), which has oversight of how the London Fire Brigade is run. Boris collects the money that funds the fire service: as ...
Read More »UKIP: behind the times?
Of course many political commentators have dismissed UKIP as a Party which is just too old fashioned for the modern day voter. The world has moved on, they say – but still UKIP harks back to the glory days when ...
Read More »Festival season in full swing with Boishakhi Mela
As the weather heats up, so too does festival season in Tower Hamlets – and this year promises to be a scorcher with the Boishakhi Mela in Victoria Park on Sunday, 22nd June. The Boishakhi Mela is the largest Bengali ...
Read More »Eddie takes a tour of the borough
BBC London radio personality Eddie Nestor hit the streets of Tower Hamlets today (Tuesday, 17th June) with Mayor Lutfur Rahman on a whistle stop tour to see the real Tower Hamlets. Eddie visited the council’s flagship regeneration schemes including Poplar ...
Read More »Diabetes advice for Ramadan
With Ramadan fast approaching, the Barts Health Diabetes Care Centre is holding a series of advice sessions to encourage safe fasting across Tower Hamlets. The main risk for anyone who fasts is hypoglycaemia (or “hypo” for short), which is when ...
Read More »Freedom Theatre comes to Tower Hamlets
The Freedom Theatre: Creating Cultural Resistance Performance followed by Q&A Monday, 23rd June @ 7:30 pm Wilton’s Music Hall Tickets: £5 (on the door, no advance booking) Tower Hamlets Jenin Friendship Association is delighted to welcome representatives of the Jenin Freedom Theatre to the Borough. ...
Read More »Fit for purpose?
If a firefighter comes to help you in an emergency, you want that firefighter to be fit enough to do the job. In Tower Hamlets especially, firefighters often have to cope with running up stairs to reach a mechanism to ...
Read More »Lucas stands up for rail
Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling for rail services and jobs to be protected as a new superfranchise of Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) services gets underway. The Government appears ...
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