JOHN BIGGS ARRIVED at the (belated) Eid Party in the Christian Street Community Hub and Gardens on Saturday – just before a cloudburst that saw local revellers and Save Our Nurseries petitioners scrambling for cover. The Executive Mayor did not ...
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Biggs upset on nurseries as “councillors say no”
COUNCILLORS have asked Executive Mayor John Biggs to think again over his plans to close the borough’s last three remaining Local Authority Day Nurseries. The move came at a special meeting of the Council’s Overview & Scrutiny Committee (OSC), held ...
Read More »Corbyn congrats for England but silence from Jim & John
LABOUR LEADER Jeremy Corbyn led the way for Labour yesterday with a succinct tweet praising both England manager Gareth Southgate and the team’s players for their performance in the Football World Cup. The same excitement came from London Mayor Sadiq ...
Read More »Biggs backs down on pay for young workers
JOHN BIGGS HAS backed down in the face of a campaign by Unite the Union and agreed that young people working in Council leisure facilities run by GLL should receive he full London Living Wage (LLL) – but he hasn’t ...
Read More »Biggsmania loses out to the footie
THEY MAY HAVE come out in their thousands to vote for him in two months ago – 44,865 of them, up from just 32,754 in 2015 – but Tower Hamlets voters were not coming out to Executive Mayor John Biggs’s Ask ...
Read More »Biggs moves to close nurseries
JOHN BIGGS, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has moved to close the borough’s last remaining three day care nurseries. The move comes after Labour ran a campaign to keep the nurseries open when the former Mayor, Lutfur Rahman, proposed closing ...
Read More »Biggs under fire as he moves to close nurseries
“HE’S NO George Lansbury, is he?” was the response from one mum on finding out that John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, is going to close the remaining three Council day care nurseries in Tower Hamlets. “Is this how he’s ...
Read More »Nursery campaigners surprise Biggs at suffragette event
ELN Exclusive: IN A TRIBUTE TO the direct action of the suffragettes, Tower Hamlets Save Our Nurseries campaigners pressed their cause with John Biggs, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, on one of his first engagements outside the Town Hall since ...
Read More »The Biggs disgrace – pay rise for top councillors
JOHN BIGGS has shocked voters across Tower Hamlets – as one of his first acts after the election was to hand pay rises to councillors taking the top positions in his Administration. John Biggs was declared Mayor after second preference ...
Read More »Biggs accepts call to stand up to racism
JOHN BIGGS, Executive Mayor of Tower Hamlets, went to the East London Mosque and London Muslim Centre last week to receive a petition handed to him by Dilowar Khan, Director of Engagement for the Mosque. The petition called for action ...
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