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CAMPAIGNERS TURNED OUT in force on Friday morning, 12th April, to draw attention to Peabody’s plans to sell off 17 Robinson Road. It was the housing association’s second attempt to auction the property to the highest bidder. Peabody Housing Association ...

FORMER EAST END resident Emily Thornberry – now better known as Labour’s Shadow Foreign Secretary – has called for action to be taken against Brunei, a tiny nation on the Island of Borneo. Brunei was a British protectorate before gaining ...

A UK-BASED HUMAN rights organisation, “White Pigeon International (WPI)”, has held a discussion meeting on the topic of “Local Government Election Backlash, Risk of Democracy in Bangladesh”. Speakers at the discussion meeting said that the democracy of the recent local ...

IN A MOVE designed to save face but also to set up Jeremy Corbyn and the Labour Party as scapegoats if Brexit goes wrong, Theresa May has asked Corbyn to solve the parliamentary Brexit impasse for her. This is a ...

THE SELLAFIELD nuclear plant has been fined a staggering £380,000 for breaching health and safety procedures – which led to a worker at the plant being exposed to an unsafe level of plutonium. Those who see nuclear power as a ...

ONE OF TOWER HAMLETS’ two Labour MPs – Jim Fitzpatrick, MP for Poplar & Limehouse – has confirmed that he may once again vote with the Conservative Government rather than support his own party. Fitzpatrick was speaking on Radio 4’s ...

EAST LONDONERS have been condemning the terrorist who massacred Muslims in New Zealand and expressing their condolences to the relatives and friends of the dead and to the injured. Local Muslims, and non-Muslims, gathered at Friday prayers in the East ...

APSANA BEGUM (Tower Hamlets) and Cllr Bob Littlewood (Redbridge) have been elected to represent the “City & the East” part of London on the Labour Party’s London Regional Board. The two were elected by Labour Party delegates to the London ...

EAST LONDON NEWS wishes all our readers a Happy New Year. We apologise for our “radio silence” over the last few days – technical issues beyond our control have kept us off air. We hope to return in full force in the ...

A LONG JOURNEY starts with a single step – and that single step may have been taken in Greatorex Street in Tower Hamlets on Sunday night, 7th October when a number of community activists came together to discuss how to ...