Emdad Rahman YOUNG AND OLD players were the key attraction as Beanibazar Sporting Club hosted a community sports event. The Club delivered a popular inter-generational badminton festival at Dagenham Park Leisure Centre, which was attended by visitors from far and ...

LABOUR IS licking its wounds in Tower Hamlets as official figures show the Party attracted just 25,602 votes from across the Borough in last Thursday’s election of Members of the European Parliament. Since Lutfur Rahman was first elected Mayor of ...

THERE WERE NO pom-poms in sight in Mulberry Place tonight as John Biggs presented his new Advisory Cabinet to the Council – but as so many of the cheer-leaders were in the said Advisory Cabinet, there was no one left ...

A LONG JOURNEY starts with a single step – and that single step may have been taken in Greatorex Street in Tower Hamlets on Sunday night, 7th October when a number of community activists came together to discuss how to ...

CRASH! Late last night – Saturday, 14th July – the news broke. Abjol Miah has joined the Liberal-Democrats! This is Bastille Day – the day, in 1789, when the people stormed the Bastille prison, attempting to release political prisoners. This ...

COUNCILLORS have asked Executive Mayor John Biggs to think again over his plans to close the borough’s last three remaining Local Authority Day Nurseries. The move came at a special meeting of the Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee (OSC), held ...

JOHN BIGGS HAS backed down in the face of a campaign by Unite the Union and agreed that young people working in Council leisure facilities run by GLL should receive he full London Living Wage (LLL) – but he hasn’t ...

JOHN BIGGS, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has moved to close the borough’s last remaining three day care nurseries. The move comes after Labour ran a campaign to keep the nurseries open when the former Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, proposed closing ...

EACH SPRING we have the competition to hear the first cuckoo of Spring – but when it’s an election year we have a parallel hunt for the first sighting of former Labour Councillor and Leader of the Council Michael Keith. ...

ONCE EVERY FOUR YEARS, April becomes not just the month that begins with April Fool’s Day, but carries on as April Fool’s Month. We’ve already seen the traditional seasonal attacks on Jeremy Corbyn – now here come the allegations of ...