IN OCTOBER we usually celebrate Black History. This month we are looking at how Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) Councillors are making new history. “Today after 17 months, I finished my term of office as the Speaker (Civic Mayor) of ...

YOU CAN help raise money for Mayflower pupils by getting sponsored for you own Covid-safe individual or family event. You can set your own distance and decide whether you will run, walk or cycle. The sponsorship money raised will go ...

AS WORLD leaders look for a way to repair a global economy deeply injured by the first wave of Coronavirus, we look this month at the struggle between the wealthy and the workers – and what has been said about ...

PRESSURE IS mounting on Labour Councillors as Tower Hamlets Unison branch conducted its third set of three days of strike action in protest at management imposing new contracts on the Council workforce. As strike action began, ten Labour Councillors signed ...

A TODDLER has died after falling from a window in his flat on the ninth floor of a high rise block in Haberdasher Street, Shoreditch. The accident occurred at around 4pm yesterday, Friday, 14th August. The toddler fell from a ...

ONE OF THE changes which the Tower Rewards contracts have brought into Tower Hamlets Council staff terms and conditions is a massive reduction in the contractual redundancy pay to which staff were previously entitled. Unions and service users alike are ...

AS WORLD leaders look for a way to repair a global economy deeply injured by the first wave of Coronavirus, we look this month at the struggle between the wealthy and the workers – and what’s been said about it. ...

THROUGHOUT the month of July, our “thought for the day” spot featured individual Tower Hamlets Councillors – recording something they have said and giving their apparent position on the Tower Rewards dispute with the Council workforce. Now the month is ...

POLICE OFFICERS have hailed Wednesday’s dawn drugs raids in Tower Hamlets as a good example of Operation Continuum – which is carried out in partnership with Tower Hamlets Council. The new Operation replaces the scheme run by the previous Executive ...

TOWER HAMLETS Unison has announced three more days of strike action as they fight to convince disgraced Executive Mayor John Biggs that reducing Council workers’ terms and conditions is not the way to balance the budget. The strikes will be ...