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Tower Hamlets marked the first ever annual Memorial Day to remember victims of honour based violence last week with a number of installation events outside the borough’s Idea Stores. The council’s Domestic Violence and Hate Crime organised the Day to ...

Things are looking up for Swan Housing Association. The controversial social landlord suffered a setback in late 2012 when it was found that some of their employees had committed fraud by falsifying documents in order to claim a government grant ...

•There are mixed feelings in hearing that the Big Lottery Fund* has announced that it will be making awards to over 60 projects in London through its Awards For All and Reaching Communities programmes. On the one hand, this is ...

Tower Hamlets Council has scooped a prestigious award for its work in preventing counterfeiting. The Global Anti-Counterfeiting Group (ACG) Awards are presented for outstanding achievement by individuals, companies or organisations involved in combating counterfeiting and piracy worldwide. ACG represents the ...

We’re all seeing double at Roman Road this month as the traditional Summer Festival, organised by the Roman Road Resident & Business Association and Tower Hamlets Council, will extend over two Sundays. Everyone’s welcome to go along: free events begin ...

The Friends of Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park (THCP) were joint winners of an Ethical Wildlife award at the 2015 Observer Ethical Awards last week. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park in Mile End covers 31 acres of woodland and is cared for ...

There was a time we wondered how the business quarter that was Canary Wharf was all going to fit in to the slender land mass allotted to it in the middle of Millwall Dock. How they did it, of course, ...

More than 1,000 families’ lives have been transformed thanks to a pioneering scheme begun under Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s Administration. The milestone was celebrated on 2nd July, the third anniversary of a major conference the Troubled Families (TF) Programme held to ...

Tower Hamlets Council is supporting a unique London-wide campaign to cut HIV infection across the capital. It’s the first time there’s been such a London-wide campaign, but there is a very big need for it – research shows there are ...

Rainbow Hamlets took a Ride to Pride this year – in a routemaster bus, funded by the Council. More than 40 volunteers engaged with residents and businesses along the parade route, promoting hate crime reporting, the prevention of domestic violence, ...