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A ‘Creativity in Mental Health’ event involving Tower Hamlets Council and a wide range of east London charities was held in Mile End yesterday.
The event was organised by Community Options, a support, advice and recovery service for mental health patients, and took place in the Mile End Ecology Pavilion.
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Tower Hamlets activists will kick off LGBT History Month tonight with a talk held at the Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives on Bancroft Road.
Author and human rights campaigner Roz Kaveney will share a platform with Jack Gilbert, co-chair of local forum Rainbow Hamlets, which is hosting the event.
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A 21-year-old man from the Isle of Dogs has admitted yesterday to plotting a terrorist attack on the London Stock Exchange along with three other men.
East London lines had earlier reported that Mohammad Chowdhury, of Stanliff House, Tower Hamlets, was one of nine charged with conspiracy to cause explosions in the UK. (more…)

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A number of new psychiatric Liaison Services for older people will launch accross east London, the NHS anounced yesterday. (more…)

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Figures released by the Government last week show Tower Hamlets is the second most improved local authority for GCSE results in the country. (more…)

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A gas leak was reported on Whitechapel Road near Fulborn Street for the second time in less than 24 hours, causing much disruption in the area. (more…)

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Two Tower Hamlets residents are among four men that have been jailed for a total of 34 years for a planned drugs robbery. (more…)

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The director of a go-karting business has been fined over £7,000 after the hair and scarf of a 15-year-old girl became entangled in the moving parts of the go-kart she was driving in September 2008. (more…)

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Kweku Adoboli, the former UBS AG trader who is accused of causing the largest loss from unauthorized trading in British history, pleaded not guilty of fraud and false accounting today at Southwark Crown Court. (more…)

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Nine long-term empty flats in Tower Hamlets are now being used as short-term lets for people in need of housing following a project run by the Phoenix Community Co-operative and Poplar HARCA. (more…)