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GOOD NEWS! Tower Hamlets Council has signed a ten-year lease on four empty office blocks on Marsh Wall, on the Isle of Dogs. It’s going to convert them into temporary accommodation. There are many reasons why this is such good ...

Winter is here, and that means that the flu virus is out and about looking for victims. It also means that we have the annual debate on whether to have a flu vaccine.  Vaccine debate Much of the vaccine debate ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council has put quite a lot of effort into promoting the events being held by various organisations around the Borough to mark Hate Crime Awareness Week. However, hate speech appears to have crept onto its Facebook page and ...

A FIRM “NO” came from a meeting of Tower Hamlets Council last week – in response to a proposal from Transport for London (TfL) to “restructure” bus routes on the Isle of Dogs. There was unity in the Town Hall ...

LINKS BETWEEN Tower Hamlets and Malaysia took another step forward this week, as H.E. Dato’ Indera Dr Azfar Mohamad Mustafar, High Commissioner of Malaysia, came to visit the Borough. Malaysia is made up of 879 islands – rather more than ...

WELFARE NOT WARFARE is the slogan adopted by the Stop The War Coalition to cover a short tour of meetings to build an international movement against war. The meetings will provide an opportunity to hear first hand accounts from a ...

IT PRESENTED as a Lemon & Lime flavoured vape, and the shop sold it to a 17 year old customer. However, that vape contained nicotine – and it’s illegal to sell vapes containing nicotine to under-18s. The shop that sold ...

IT IS 90 years since trade union and anti-fascist activists chased members of the British Union of Fascists off the streets of Shadwell – uniting under the slogan “They shall not pass”. Mayor Lutfur Rahman marked the day by joining ...

A MASSIVE power cut is taking place across a large part of the capital. UK Power Networks say that this is because “A fault has occurred on an underground electricity cable in the local area.” The power cut his thousands ...

CLLR MAIUM TALUKDAR, Deputy Mayor of Tower Hamlets, was joined by councillor colleagues outside the Town Hall as he led calls to remember the message “they shall not pass”. Aspire councillor colleagues joining the Deputy Mayor included Cllr Bodrul Choudhury ...