Biggs makes first pledge to keep a key Lutfur Rahman policy. John “Two Jobs” Biggs found his luck was in last Monday when he opened the Healthy Schools and Healthy Early Years Celebration Event – held, like John Biggs’s Tower ...

•Locals may be charged up to £272 per week rent for social homes •Public money will build houses for sale in high cost area •“Fast track” planning powers could leave locals with no say John Biggs has set out his ...

Tower Hamlets Independent Councillors were stunned at last week’s Council meeting as John “Two Jobs” Biggs moved quickly to cordon off his rule as mayor of Tower Hamlets from independent scrutiny. He made sure all the top jobs were kept ...

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 ...

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. ...

We were all surprised earlier this year when Labour’s John Biggs declared his intention to carry on as a GLA Councillor for City and East London (the City, Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham) while also serving as Mayor of ...

As the polls closed on this momentous election day, all the political parties agreed on one thing: it really is too close to call the mayoral election. That is not to say that the winning margin will be small, though ...

Friday’s our day off in East London News: and what better way to spend it, given that it is the last Friday of the election campaign, than touring the Borough’s mosques to get the last minute vibes? Imagine our surprise, ...

One of the reasons why the number of people employed in the UK has gone up is that as it’s so hard to get a decent full-time job, people are having to do two or three part-time jobs to make ...