This Sunday saw the Boishakhi Mela festival transform Victoria Park into a Bangladeshi…
As a result of high levels of anti-social behaviour in Whitechapel, a temporary dispersal zone has been introduced in the area this week. The dispersal zone will give police officers the power to demand that people leave the area for 24 hours if their behaviour is considered antisocial. Anyone refusing…
Politicians faced the fear and concerns of people living in Tower Hamlets about the impact of cuts to local fire services in a Borough that the Fire Brigades Union says has more fires than any other area of London. The Greater London Authority was warned “stripping away so much of…
The Conservative Party group at Tower Hamlets Council used the Freedom of Information Act to reveal that Deputy Mayor, Ohid Ahmed, took a taxi ride costing £140 with two colleagues and complain they could have saved public money by going on public transport. The journey was made in December 2011.…
Some children in Tower Hamlets are facing the disappointment of not getting into their local primary schools as the result of a new Pan-London co-ordinated admissions system which it is claimed gives pupils who live farther away priority. Parents hoping their children would be accepted into Chisenhale Community Primary School in…
Labour councillors in Tower Hamlets are campaigning to increase local authority powers to control the spread of betting shops in the High Street. At a council meeting last week, the group urged Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman to sign up to a cross-borough and cross-party request to the Government that…
![Demolition of Robin Hood Gardens [Audio]](http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/ell_wp/wp-content/themes/blognews/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eastlondonlines.co.uk%2Fell_wp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F04%2FRobinHoodGardensELL.jpg&q=90&w=255&h=260&zc=1 "Demolition of Robin Hood Gardens [Audio]")
Demolition work has begun at the Blackwall Reach Regeneration Project in Tower Hamlets.…
![Sexual Entertainment Venues Consultation [Audio]](http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/ell_wp/wp-content/themes/blognews/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eastlondonlines.co.uk%2Fell_wp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F04%2FEvy_Whitechapel-Ready-for-ELL.jpg&q=90&w=255&h=260&zc=1 "Sexual Entertainment Venues Consultation [Audio]")
Tower Hamlets Council has introduced a public consultation on whether or not residents would like tougher legislation giving local authorities more powers to regulate the licensing of sexual entertainment venues. Sexual entertainment venues refers to lap- and pole-dancing clubs. There are 11 such venues in the borough. The Licensing Act…
![Single mothers to be worst hit as welfare reforms bite [Audio]](http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/ell_wp/wp-content/themes/blognews/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eastlondonlines.co.uk%2Fell_wp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F04%2FLucy_Single-Mothers-Tower-Hamlets-Ready-for-ELL.jpg&q=90&w=255&h=260&zc=1 "Single mothers to be worst hit as welfare reforms bite [Audio]")
An event hosted at the Idea Store in Whitechapel Wednesday 24 April investigated how the bedroom tax is affecting local women. Although this reform is being implemented nationwide, the meeting indicated that social housing residents and housing benefit recipients in Tower Hamlets and across London are likely to feel…
![Lewisham political figures question report condemning Borough as least peaceful place in Britain? [Audio]](http://www.eastlondonlines.co.uk/ell_wp/wp-content/themes/blognews/timthumb.php?src=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eastlondonlines.co.uk%2Fell_wp%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2013%2F04%2Flewishampeacereport.jpg&q=90&w=255&h=260&zc=1 "Lewisham political figures question report condemning Borough as least peaceful place in Britain? [Audio]")
Political figures in Lewisham have been questioning the impression of a think tank report that describes the borough as the ‘least peaceful place in Britain.’ Hackney and Tower Hamlets were also placed in the bottom five places for social harmony in the United Kingdom by the UK Peace Index, from…
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