APSANA BEGUM, MP for Poplar & Limehouse, has today been found not guilty of three counts of making dishonest applications for council housing to Tower Hamlets Council. Rumours that Apsana Begum was guilty of fraud began circulating in Tower Hamlets ...
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Bonner Primary School: do Muslim children’s lives matter?
WHAT MESSAGE does it send out when a school closes to assist its children (and staff) to mark a Christian holy day, but remains open on a Muslim holy day? That’s the question that Bonner Primary School in Tower Hamlets ...
Read More »Mayor thanks volunteers – a year after shafting the workers
JULY BEGAN WITH a day out at the Art Pavilion in Mile End for Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs. The visit was organised so that he could thank the volunteers who have kept it – and many other extra ...
Read More »Starmer’s broom still trying to sweep away dissent
AS BLAIRTE Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer battles to stamp his authority on the Labour Party, voting has started on the membership of the Conference Arrangements Committee (CAC). It may – it does – sound like the dullest election ever, ...
Read More »Is One Housing selling off Island residents?
ONE HOUSING has revealed that it plans to join the Riverside Group – and talks about the takeover are well underway. The news has come as a shock to residents of its properties in Tower Hamlets, the bulk of which ...
Read More »Labour praises its own failings on child poverty
OVER THE last five years, child poverty in Tower Hamlets has increased by just over 5,000 – that’s around an extra 20 children a week, nearly three children a day, living in families that just can’t make ends meet. During ...
Read More »UK democracy? Face up to the flaws
IF UK DEMOCRACY is a shining example for the rest of the world to follow, then someone needs to help the rest of the world. Two institutions crucial to the functioning of a democratic society have been found wanting today: ...
Read More »Coalition targets Palestine for protests at G7 summit
SEVERAL GROUPS have joined together to organise protests at and about the G7 summit which is to be held in Cornwall next weekend. One of the main issues protestors wish to raise is the G7 countries’ support for the Israeli ...
Read More »Is Poplar Labour Secretary guilty of “dishonest behaviour”?
QUESTIONS ARE being asked as members of the Poplar & Limehouse Constituency Labour Party (CLP) are becoming aware of a document which seems to show that their Secretary has “brought her profession into disrepute by reason of her dishonest behaviour” ...
Read More »First Mayor of London backs Directly Elected Mayor option
THE FIRST elected Mayor of London Ken Livingstone supports the Mayoral system. The twice-elected London Mayor has put his weight behind the elected Mayoral system in Tower Hamlets’ referendum. Ken Livingstone said, “If you look at the Mayor system that was ...
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