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Traffic chaos raged through the Whitechapel area last week – and the bad news is that it is set to go on till September. The traffic situation was already bad due to the Transport for London (TfL) roadworks that stretch ...

Cllr Peter Golds has become one of the latest victims of the “I am stranded and need money” email scam. The scam involves hackers taking over the victim’s email account and sending out an email to everyone in their address ...

The Coalition Government made changes to the way in which GP surgeries are funded. As a result, Tower Hamlets was threatened with the loss of five surgeries – at a time when GPs are busier than ever. News has just ...

As Michelle Obama, First Lady of the USA, and her two daughters visited Mulberry School today, John Biggs made one of his first press statements as the Mayor of Tower Hamlets. John Biggs gushed: “It’s fantastic that the First Lady ...

The predominant emotion in the Labour Party campaign when they woke up on Friday morning (or maybe even Friday afternoon) was probably not elation so much as relief. Although John Biggs won the Tower Hamlets mayoral election, he lost a large ...

Eco World Ballymore has launched the second phase of “London City Island”. They are going to build two blocks of flats which will contain 417 new homes of various sizes (one to four bedrooms, and “suites”, which appears to be ...

The last weekend of the mayoral election campaign in Tower Hamlets saw questions being raised about how the Labour Party came to use a public park for a “campaign event”. Either the Party had hired Altab Ali Park (which would ...

Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the mayoral campaign explaining that standing for election as Mayor of Tower Hamlets is a big step for her – but it could be a step forward for women across ...

While Cllr Rabina Khan has spent the last full week of the campaign concentrating on how to create more jobs for unemployed women, Labour candidate John Biggs (a Member of the London Assembly) is working hard on getting a second job ...

They say that trouble comes in threes – and the last weekend of the campaign to be mayor of Tower Hamlets saw Labour red-faced over three incidents as they made their third attempt to take the Town Hall’s top post. ...