THREE HOUSES in the Coldharbour Conservation Area were demolished last June – and Tower Hamlets Council has now ordered the owners to rebuild them as they were knocked down without permission. Tower Hamlets Council has been investigating the demolition since ...

TOWER HAMLETS Councillors have begun to react to the shocking news that the Government is sending in “Intervention Advisors” to supervise the Council’s work to  improve its Children’s Services. Opposition People’s Alliance leader Cllr Rabina Khan has pointed out that ...

COMMUNITIES ACROSS Tower Hamlets have been concerned for the last two years as the Council, under John Biggs, has cut the youth service and, most recently, put the future of young people’s sport in jeopardy. For his part, John Biggs ...

YOU’RE elected as the mayor of Tower Hamlets, and there’s someone in the High Court telling you what to do, and MPs are threatening to hold an inquiry into how you’re running things. There was a time when John Biggs ...

YOUNG MEN from Tower Hamlets have completed the first stage of a journey towards a career in construction. They have undertaken pre-apprenticeship work placements with construction company Ballymore. Tower Hamlets mayor John Biggs joined the apprentices on a Docklands bridge ...

THE BANK HOLIDAY press reports about fostering in Tower Hamlets merit a proper investigation say councillors who are part of the People’s Alliance of Tower Hamlets (PATH) Group. The press allegations follow an Ofsted inspection earlier this year which found fault ...

CLLR SIRAJUL ISLAM put his housing portfolio on the shelf for a couple of hours on Thursday and popped across to Central Foundation Girls School to watch the opening of GCSE results. The Deputy Mayor – the only one that ...

COUNCILLORS and residents united in questioning new plans from John Bigg to charge more for parking in Tower Hamlets, is it possible that Labour Councillor Khales Uddin Ahmed has come to the rescue? The following letter has been circulating on ...

THIS YEAR’S August Bank Holiday weekend will once again have the Deaf Run as its centrepiece. This year’s event – the eighth – will take place in Mile End Park on Saturday, 26th August and is once again being run ...

IN A SHOCK announcement late this evening, 8th August, Cllr Rachael Saunders announced that she is resigning as Deputy Mayor and from her Cabinet position. She has also said that she will not stand again as a council candidate in ...