THE ONLY fitting response to Cllr Rachael Saunders’s resignation is for John Biggs to follow her example says Cllr Oliur Rahman, Leader of the Opposition, The Independent Group of Tower Hamlets Councillors. “I have been calling for months for Cllr ...

TOWER HAMLETS COUNCIL has been running courses to train local residents to become champions who will tackle hate crime in the borough. A lucky 13 residents have just begun the latest course, which has been completed by 71 residents to ...

COURT ACTION taken by a group of traders has forced Mayor John Biggs’s Administration to back down and withdraw the Late Night Levy until proper consultation has taken place. The problem began in January this year, when a meeting of ...

A LACK OF leadership and consistent failures on governance, service delivery and keeping residents safe – that’s the criticism which the Tower Hamlets Independent Group of Councillors is throwing at Labour’s Mayor, John Biggs. The Indes cite an increase in ...

THE GRENFELL TOWER fire took place in the early hours of 14th June. By tea-time the following day, Prime Minister Theresa May had announced there would be a full public inquiry. On the morning of 16th June, John Biggs, Executive ...

MUMS LED THE way as nursery campaigners went to see the Tower Hamlets Mayor, John Biggs, on Tuesday (15th May) to make the case for Council-run nurseries. Tower Hamlets Council owns and runs three day care nurseries – but the ...

TOWER HAMLETS PARENTS are up in arms over John Biggs’s plans to target services for children and young people when he proposes a cuts budget to the Council on 22nd February. Parents – and junior service users – joined Council staff ...

RESIDENTS IN THE south of the borough will be keeping Wednesday, 8th February free – so they can discuss the future of the Isle of Dogs with the Tower Hamlets Mayor, John Biggs. The meeting is one of the occasional ...

LABOUR MAYOR of Tower Hamlets John Biggs was left red-faced after his Administration put out a press release referring to his predecessor as “Luther Rahman”. “Lutfur Rahman” is probably one of the best known names in Tower Hamlets. The Borough’s ...

Labour’s John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets, has commented on the death of Bow School pupil Nasar Ali. Nasar was taken ill at school on Thursday, 10th November and passed away in the Royal London Hospital on Monday, 14th November. ...