AROUND THE UK Councillors have been helping local communities during the various Covid lockdowns and tier experiences. They have delivered food, helped community groups and reorganised council services (and budgets) to meet the new situation. Sometimes, though – with so ...

THURSDAY, 6th May is the date on which elections for the positions of London Mayor and Members of the Greater London Assembly will be held – one year after they were due to take place and postponed by the Covid ...

LUTFUR RAHMAN, former Directly Elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has spoken out to support the borough’s libraries and Ideas Stores – the latest service under threat of closure by Tower Hamlets Council. Lutfur Rahman posted a statement on his Facebook ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...