Politics

A SET of five motions coming to next Wednesday’s Council meeting as the Independent Group of councillors puts forward a strategy to make the Borough a safer place. When he was Deputy Mayor, Cllr Ohid had a special brief for ...

A LACK OF leadership and consistent failures on governance, service delivery and keeping residents safe – that’s the criticism which the Tower Hamlets Independent Group of Councillors is throwing at Labour’s Mayor, John Biggs. The Indes cite an increase in ...

IT IS A FIGHT for survival, as Tower Hamlets Youth Sport Foundation (THYSF) tries to stave off cuts which Tower Hamlets Labour Mayor, John Biggs, is planning to the Council’s trailblazing youth sports service. Youth and community leaders across the ...

THE NATIONAL AUDIT OFFICE (NAO), the government body which scrutinises public expenditure, has criticised the government proposal to build a nuclear energy plant (Hinckley C) in Somerset. This adds criticism of the finances of the plan to earlier concerns about ...

FARMERS ARE struggling to harvest summer crops of fruit and salads as the number of migrant workers prepared to come to the UK has slumped. The UK relies on some 80,000 workers to pick summer produce, most of whom come ...

TOWER HAMLETS PATH Councillors have launched a petition calling on Labour’s Executive Mayor, John Biggs, to undertake a number of measures to improve fire safety in the Borough. Already the petition is gathering support at a rate of knot, with ...

THE METROPOLITAN POLICE have asked the Government for more funds to cover the extra commitment to dealing with terrorist attacks and the Grenfell Tower fire which it has had to provide in recent weeks. The Met is also keeping up ...

IT WAS ALWAYS a bit odd that when the UK banking system teetered on the brink of collapse during the global economic crash of 2008, Barclays Bank was almost alone in not need a taxpayers’ bailout – and, therefore, escaped ...

SINCE THE terrorist attack on Muslims at Finsbury Park, Prime Minister Theresa May has spoken out about the need to make it clear how unacceptable Islamophobia is in our society and how we need to crack down on it. To ...

HACKNEY MP Diane Abbott has returned to the Labour front bench following a brief period of sick leave during the General Election. Diane was pilloried in the press for having fluffed a couple of interviews during the General Election campaign. ...