IT’S THREE CHEERS for London’s NHS as it announces that a record number of anti-Covid vaccinations have been carried out in the last week. The service has delivered 650 booster/third dose vaccines in a week. The number of booster/third doses ...
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Civil rights leader Jesse Jackson visits East London school
Emdad Rahman Civil rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who worked with Dr Martin Luther King in the 1960s, has paid a visit to the East End, where he spent an afternoon with teachers, students and parents at the London ...
Read More »Tower Bridge turns red and green for golden anniversary
Muhi Mikdad TOWER BRIDGE, that iconic symbol of East London, turned red and green last Thursday, 16th December. The bridge was lit up in the colours of the Bangladeshi flag to mark the 50th anniversary of “Victory Day” in the ...
Read More »The Met: safe in the hands of the high-ups?
THE METROPOLITAN POLICE have today announced the latest step they are taking in their plan to rebuild public trust in the capital’s law enforcement body – which was shattered after the murder of Sarah Everard in March this year. It ...
Read More »Watch Live: Boris on Omicron Covid in UK
BREAKING NEWS: Watch Prime Minister Boris Johnson hold press conference as two cases of new Covid variant Omicron found in Brentwood (Essex) and Nottingham. https://fb.watch/9y7PdC49Qp/ ●Read more stories about the Coronavirus/COVID-19: Coronavirus COVID-19 ●Watch East London’s weekly news magazine programme, ...
Read More »Labour complacent as Aspire raise knife crime emergency
Aspire Councillor Kabir Ahmed (Weavers Ward) stood by his decision to take a motion on the knife crime emergency in Tower Hamlets to the Council meeting on Wednesday, 17th November. The motion was based on a petition drafted by Maium ...
Read More »Why do they always forget the residents?
TONIGHT, The Tuesday Show asks why residents seem to be treated as an inconvenience by any authority trying to redevelop East London or to provide public services. ELN editor Jenny Fisher is joined by two community activists from Lansbury ward ...
Read More »Weapons of Mass Destruction found in East London!
THEY ARE HERE. Hunkered down in the Excel Centre are a shedload of arms dealers – with their models and plans and their displays. Headed towards them is a gaggle of potential mass murderers, wallets at the ready, arming themselves… ...
Read More »Biggs nods to voters’ views as election looms
IT TOOK a by-election loss to persuade Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs to change his mind on one of his key policies. He has only changed it in that it is “paused”, rather than going “full steam ahead” – ...
Read More »Is this a reshuffle or is the house of cards collapsing?
TWO WEEKS AFTER losing the Weavers by-election, Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs has announced that he is changing his policy on “liveable streets” and having a Cabinet reshuffle. In very similar press releases, both Tower Hamlets Labour Party and ...
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