WHEN LABOUR PARTY supporters elected Jeremy Corbyn as their Leader, many were looking forward to an era of fairer funding – with money being allocated according to need. They are going to have to wait a while in London. Although ...

SEVENTEEN ARRESTS have been made since 1st January in a joint operation – “Operation Continuum” between Tower Hamlets Council and Tower Hamlets police. There is no explanation of what “Operation Continuum” is. In the second anti-drug operation held under Operation ...

TOWER HAMLETS Council is the only Council including in Stonewall’s Top 100 UK Employers Index. Stonewall, which campaigns for equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people in Britain, publishes the list every year to encourage fairness at work. Stonewall ...

SIR ROBIN WALES, Mayor of Newham, is reported to be fighting for his political life as he goes through a Labour Party “trigger ballot” to determine whether he will be Labour’s candidate for mayor at this May’s elections. In most ...

AS THE TORIES fall apart trying to find a higher education policy they can all be happy with, Labour has sent out a firm message about what action needs to be taken to encourage students from all walks of life ...

LABOUR LOYALIST John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is facing accusations of hypocrisy after adding his name to a letter in the Sunday Times headed “Labour Executive wrong to meddle”. In the letter, Labour Council Leaders declared independence from ...

TOWER HAMLETS NOW has the highest percentage of children living in poverty in the UK – and Cllr Ahmed, the Independent Mayoral candidate for Tower Hamlets, is demanding urgent action by both central government and Executive Mayor John Biggs. Cllr Ahmed has ...

ON 24TH JANUARY, we published a story about child poverty in Tower Hamlets. We are delighted to report that on 25th January Tower Hamlets Council kindly sent us two corrections to the article – which we are of course happy to ...

ALL EYES ARE turning to Executive Mayor John Biggs as it is revealed that children in four constituencies in the UK are more likely than not to grow up in poverty – and two of the four are in Tower ...

HISTORY WAS MADE at the meeting of Tower Hamlets Council last night, 17th January. No one was sure if this was the very first opposition motion which Labour had agreed to debate at a Council meeting – but the debate ...