TWO LABOUR Shadow Ministers issued a joint statement on 12th August to mark International Youth Day. Cat Smith, Shadow Minister for Voter Engagement and Youth Affairs, and Kate Osamor, Shadow International Development Secretary, spoke up for the rights of young ...
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“Careless” Biggs loses second Deputy Mayor
AS THE NEWS broke that Cllr Rachael Saunders had resigned as Deputy Mayor, Cllr Ohid Ahmed has criticised Labour Mayor John Biggs for weak leadership. “Within six months, two female Deputy Mayor have left the Biggs Administration,” said Cllr Ahmed. ...
Read More »Sporting youngsters to lobby Council tonight
SUPPORTERS OF the Tower Hamlets Youth Sports Foundation (THYSF) will be lobbying the Council tonight to protest against a lack of funding for this organisation – and its extensive programme of sport enjoyed by young people across the borough. The ...
Read More »Court action forces Biggs to back down
COURT ACTION taken by a group of traders has forced Mayor John Biggs’s Administration to back down and withdraw the Late Night Levy until proper consultation has taken place. The problem began in January this year, when a meeting of ...
Read More »Indes grill Biggs on safety and services
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 ...
Read More »Help campaigners save TH Youth Sport
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 ...
Read More »May’s breakfast is a dog’s dinner
THERE’S NO SUCH thing as a free lunch – or, in this General Election, a free breakfast. The funding for the free school breakfast which Theresa May offered the nation will only cover a 25% uptake. Oh dear. The policy ...
Read More »Election expenses: Tory double standards
THERESA MAY has responded to the news that no Tory candidates will be charged with a criminal offence as a result of the “battle bus” incident by declaring “We did nothing wrong.” She is wrong to do so: the Election ...
Read More »Rich Mix is looking forwards
THE RICH MIX team are wishing their supporters a happy new year. The cultural centre is remembered in Tower Hamlets for winning generous public subsidy and in particular for the controversial £850,00 loan it received from the Council some years ...
Read More »Corbyn critics mislead over McCluskey
ONE DAY into the New Year – and Jeremy Corbyn’s critics are already having a go. This time they are using Len McCluskey, General Secretary of Unite, the UK’s largest union, to attack the Labour Leader. The whole saga will come ...
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