Tower Hamlets Council has been working with partners in the health service and the community to help people join the national “Stopober” initiative and stop smoking. Smoking accounts for over 100,000 deaths in the UK each year and it is ...

It was third time lucky for tiddlers and toddlers who went to the street party at Around Poplar Children Centre last week. This was the third party, organised by Tower Hamlets Council and the Children’s Centres Parents Forum – the ...

Our London Living Wage boosts women’s pay Tower Hamlets Council has been praised by the TUC for being a London Living Wage employer. The national body, which represents trade unions and campaigns for a fairer deal at work, said that ...

A celebration event took place last Thursday to thank residents who helped create a new map showing the borough’s most-valued community assets. Tower Hamlets Council recruited 28 volunteers and helped train them in how to research the views and experiences ...

  A successful joint operation using tobacco-detection dogs has resulted in large seizures of smuggled and counterfeit products from retailers across Tower Hamlets. The seizures were part of ‘Operation Henry’, a crackdown on the supply of illicit tobacco across nine ...

This is not the best of The Times: this is the worst of The Times. It is relentless. Top story on the website of The Times in the early hours of 20th August was the barbaric and brutal murder of ...

Small and medium businesses in Tower Hamlets could get up to £3,000 towards installing a high-speed broadband connection, usually of 30Mbit/s or more. The new grant from the Greater London Authority (GLA), worth up to £100 million across the UK, ...

Lutfur Rahman, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, officially opened the new “pocket park” in Derbyshire Street, Bethnal Green during a community event on Friday, 15th August. The environmentally-friendly park has transformed a local eyesore into an asset everyone can enjoy. Residents ...

Tower Hamlets Council has been granted an additional £250,000 by the Government to tackle potholes. The council will be conducting a fast track inspection of all roads in the borough over the coming months to identify and repair potholes. A ...

There’s an old saying in cynics’ circles: if voting could change anything, they’d abolish it. Resident activists sometimes have a little joke about that and say to ourselves: “if tenants could change anything, they’d abolish us”. At least, we thought it ...