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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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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… ...

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” – ...

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 ...

AMONG THE most sickening sights at the end of the western occupation of Afghanistan has been that of former Prime Minister Tony Blair – lecturing us on what the UK should do about foreign policy. Blair played his part in ...

TONIGHT residents and electors of Tower Hamlets can meet the new Aspire councillor – Kabir Ahmed, who was elected to represent Weavers Ward last Thursday, 12th August. Cllr Ahmed will be the studio guest on this week’s The Tuesday Show ...

BY ANY STANDARD, the Weavers ward by-election on 12th August was a tremendous victory for Kabir Ahmed and Aspire.  Executive Mayor John Biggs doesn’t like losing – and scenes as the Count hinted at what is to come over the ...