Roman Road residents are calling for an inquiry after £140,000 of regeneration grant money was spent on the “shoddy” refurbishment of just seven local shop fronts. According to Marc Francis, the Labour councillor for Bow East, in 2010, £140,000 of grant money was spent on shop front renewal, £120,000…
Tower Hamlets police are investigating the harassment of an ex-Liberal Democrat councillor after offensive posters were put up in the borough. The posters, which accused Nigel McCollum of paedophilia, were displayed in public areas near the former Bow East councillor’s home. Detectives say no arrests have yet been made, but…
Local author, Sam Gayton, has been awarded the 2013 Tower Hamlets Book Award for his children’s novel ‘The Snow Merchant’. The award, voted for by children from 35 local schools, was selected from a shortlist of the best fiction books from 2012 and 2013. Now in its seventh year, the…
Payday loan companies are officially banned from advertising on all council-owned property in Tower Hamlets, or setting up business in local authority property, following a vote taken on Wednesday evening. Council members voted in favour of a petition presented by Citizen UK to ban payday loan advertising on billboards, bus shelters,…
Allegations of electoral fraud caused uproar at the Tower Hamlets Council Meeting last night as Labour councillors threatened to call for a police investigation. Attendees passed a motion which raised concerns over people claiming to be from a local housing association, while canvassing for the Mayor in the run up…
A man from Tower Hamlets has been jailed after attempting to smuggle over 40,000 cigarettes into UK. Abdul Shelim, 33, from Stepney, was stopped by Customs officials at Heathrow Airport on June 9 after he had flown in from Bangladesh. A search of Shelim’s luggage revealed three suitcases full of…
Two men have been charged for their involvement in a vicious attack on an American student last year, which left him permanently scarred. Kamrual Hussain, 22, of Clinchy House on Stepney Way, was charged yesterday with grievous bodily harm with intent, and Shadhat Hussain,19, of Malmesbury Terrace in Newham,…
Campaigners who opposed a new Tower Hamlets housing development are celebrating after the plans were quashed at a council meeting. Despite recommendation for approval from planning officers, the council’s strategic planning committee did not grant developers Londonewcastle permission to construct a 56-meter housing tower on the Huntingdon Industrial Estate, and…
Criticism from local artists has forced Tower Hamlets council to admit a recent literary festival they hosted failed to ensure sufficient representation of the area’s various ethnic groups. There was disappointment at the inclusion of only two non-white artists in a programme of more than 30 at The Write Idea…
A Tower Hamlets swimming club, set up to increase participation for women in sport throughout the borough, has won a nationwide award to acknowledge their efforts. Tower Hamlet’s Women and Girls Swimming Club received the Kellogg’s’ Swimtastic Silver ‘project of the year’ award at a ceremony in Birmingham on Saturday,…
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