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A GROUP OF group of students and staff from London Enterprise Academy made a nine-day journey to Bangladesh from 13th to 23rd February this year. This was more than just a trip: it was an experience that would stay with ...

ON 1ST APRIL, Tower Hamlets Council was 60 years old. On 19th February, Eastenders – the popular BBC soap opera set in roughly the same area, had celebated its 40th birthday. Sometimes it’s hard to tell the two apart. Those ...

IT IS several years since the NHS decided to modernise the Royal London Hospital – triggering a wholesale redevelopment of the surrounding part of Whitechapel. But will the development bring improvements to the area? The opportunity to improve Whitechapel wasn’t ...

KIRSTY COVENTRY stormed past her six male competitors to win the election for President of the Interntionl Olympic Committee (IOC). She is the first woman president; at 41 she is the youngest ever; and she is the first African to ...

TWO DEMONSTRATIONS are being held this week in support of striking workers who clean British Airways offices – and receive the legal minimum in pay. British Airways have offices at Heathrow, and they employ OCS, a facilities services firm, to ...

REDBRIDGE LABOUR Councillor Sam Gould, who represented Hainult ward, has resigned from the Council – after admitting two counts of indecent exposure at a hearing at Barkingside Magistrates Court last week. Gould, from Hornchurch, had earlier been sacked from his ...

AFTER 25 years, pop band Five are back with a new tour – Keep On Movin’ 2025. And the group has just announced that they are adding more dates to the run. Five were formed in 1997. They sold 20 ...

A “PEOPLE’S BUDGET” has been passed by Tower Hamlets Council on Wednesday, 26th February, after nearly three hours of debate. This was the third budget proposed by Mayor Lutfur Rahman since he was elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, for the ...

ALL COUNCILS are equal – but, under Starmer’s Labour Government, some are more equal than others. The cash-strapped Government that had to axe the Winter Fuel Allowance for pensioners has found funds for a selective cash bailout to some failing ...

IT WAS unprecedented. Tower Hamlets Councillors united, almost to a person, to stop the Council’s pension fund investing in companies involved in the arms trade. The Council and its employees both contribute a small sum to a pension fund each ...