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 continues to strive to arrest a “dealer a day”, with officers carrying out further stings in Stepney and Isle of Dogs this month. The recent raids have led to the seizure of heroin, cocaine and cannabis with ...

It’s hard to keep a secret in Tower Hamlets – so all credit to East End Homes for keeping the outcome of their meeting last week totally under wraps. By way of context, you should know that when Labour Councillors ...

The Women’s Environmental Network (WEN) has released details of its Summer Gathering. The event will be on Sunday, 24th August at Spitalfields City farm, between 12 noon and 5pm. As usual there will be workshops, stalls and a tour of ...

Geoff Juden, Chair of the East London Garden Society, looks at the Bishopsgate Goods Yard Development. The community has asked for Weavers Shoreditch Woods to be created: why have the developers refused? We who live in the Shoreditch area of ...

The East London Gardening Society (ELGS) is still campaigning hard to get a pollution-reducing Forest Garden included in the Bishopsgate Goods Yard redevelopment. Planting on this scale is using a traditional method to improve air quality, and it would have ...

Ping. Boink. Ping. Boink. Clunk. Cheers.  Fifteen love. If it’s Wimbledon, it’s the strawberry season and summer, after several weeks of dress rehearsals, is here. Don’t knock the strawberry. It’s a little ball of vitamin C. Although a large helping ...

There’s a certain alarm generated by the news that British Airways is sponsoring a rooftop film club situated on the top of Stratford’s multi-storey car park. Is the airline trying to edge out the humble petrol combustion engine vehicle? Is ...

It’s a well known fact that Jim Fitpatrick MP (Poplar & Canning Town) is a dog lover. Didn’t he used to have a dog called Scruff who won the House of Commons dog show one year? In March this year, ...

Police were called at 14:26hrs on Wednesday, 14th May to reports of a man attacked on the Kier Hardy Estate, Springfield, E5. The 53-year-old victim was carrying out garden maintenance in the area when a substance was thrown over his ...