BOW EAST residents are unimpressed by the announcement that the London Mayor is giving Tower Hamlets Council £350,000 to spend on helping small businesses to improve air quality in the borough. Air quality was one of the reasons why people ...
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Thought for today 16.01.20
ARE FREE school meals for primary school pupils next for the chop? What does Executive Mayor John Biggs have in mind? “Every child in primary school gets a free school meal at present. We fund that through time limited use ...
Read More »Look out, Stepney: posh people coming!
IS STEPNEY to be the new Isle of Dogs? Details of an eye-wateringly expensive residential development have come to light which suggest that Whitechapel is being subjected to the same kind of random gentrification as E14. The Background It was ...
Read More »Will Bangladeshis unite behind one candidate?
IT IS almost a “tale of two Johns” as Labour Party members in Poplar & Limehouse constituency head for their hustings meeting this afternoon. The members will be choosing who will be the Labour Party candidate at the next General ...
Read More »Two mayors bridge the gap
TWO EAST LONDON mayors – John Biggs from Tower Hamlets and Rokhsana Fiaz from Newham – have met up to mark the opening of a new pedestrian bridge which links their two boroughs. The bridge cost £593,000 – that’s thought ...
Read More »Meals on Wheels cut: mystery deepens
WHY HAS Tower Hamlets Executive Mayor John Biggs ordered the closure of the Council Meals on Wheels Service, which provides meals to vulnerable adults? Service users and community activists have been raising concerns about what will happen when the service ...
Read More »Three women line up for Poplar & Limehouse
THE LABOUR PARTY is close to announcing who its candidate in Poplar & Limehouse will be at the next General Election – following the announcement by Jim “Dim Jim” Fitzpatrick that he will not contest the seat again. Campaigning by ...
Read More »PSC continues protest over Council park ban
THERE CAN’T BE many Councils in the UK which have banned charities from using their local parks – but Tower Hamlets Council is one of them, with officers’ reasoning only being discovered after Freedom of Information Requests. The Big Ride, ...
Read More »Where is the Speaker?
THE COUNCIL has a new “Speaker” – Cllr Victoria Obaze, who was elected at the AGM on 15th May. But will she be a dignitary who sits in the Town Hall or one who comes out and confronts difficult issues ...
Read More »Tower Hamlets all talk on #BeBodyKind
WE’RE IN THE middle of Mental Health Awareness Week – and Tower Hamlets Council and Tower Hamlets NHS Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) have joined forces to promote positive attitudes to body images. The Mental Health Foundation has estimated that nearly ...
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