The Court of Appeal has taken a decision which will help some children in some kinds of court cases. The decision concerns who pays for expert reports which are ordered by the Court. Although it is an important ruling, it ...

Olympian Mo Farah May have pulled out due to injury, but the BUPA 10,000 proved to be a fruitful experience for a number of charities. Among the thousands of runners was a cohort of east-enders running to support important charitable ...

For some time both Barking and Dagenham and Havering boroughs have received concerned calls regarding animals either suffering or being kept on open land owned by the council. For example, Barking and Dagenham received a report of two foals that ...

Tower Hamlets Council’s innovative energy-saving co-op, T.H.E. Community Power, has been on the road during May, showing residents how they can make savings on their home energy bills. THE Community Power has given residents advice on how they can make ...

Lutfur Rahman held his first press conference as the re-elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets in the early hours of Saturday, 24th May – within minutes of the election result being announced. He was joined on the platform by the newly ...

The results of the elections on 22nd May 2014 have opened up a debate in Tower Hamlets about the relationship between Lutfur Rahman and the Labour Party. Good: ELN wrote about this in the early hours of 24th May (Labour: time ...

It was close – but not that close. Labour told us the electors had had enough of Lutfur Rahman – hated him; saw him as corrupt and divisive; would stand it no longer. How wrong they were.  Although 27,643 people ...

The counting of the councillor elections began a bit after the mayoral result was declared: maybe around 2am or so.  LBTH is publishing detailed ward results on http://moderngov.towerhamlets.gov.uk/mgElectionResults.aspx?ID=22&V=1&RPID=3009658 and there is no need for us to repeat them here. The ...

Reetendra BANERJI (Lib Dem) 1959 John BIGGS (Labour) 27,643 (1st preference), 6,500 (2nd preference) = 34,143 Reza CHOUDHURY (Independent) 205 Hafiz KADIR (Independent) 162 Mohammed KHAN (Independent) 164 Nicholas MCQUEEN (UKIP) 4,819 Hugo PIERRE (Trade Union and Socialist Coalition) 871 Lutfur ...

London Tigers Sunday Football team, which plays in the Musical Association League, won the Division Cup final on Sunday. The game was played at London Tigers Stadium in Greenford, with the home team winning with a score of 6-2 against Hackney Casuals. ...