Today is World Cultural Diversity Day. This global event has been going for over a decade, and since 2011 it has been the basis for a 24-hour United Nations campaign called: “Do one thing for Cultural Diversity and Inclusion”. People everywhere are being asked to make one positive gesture towards integration and cultural…
There is so much fun to be had this week along the line. Shine up your dancing shoes and get down to Deptford for the Tea Party at the Albany and the fantastic Jive Party at Brockley’s Rivoli. Taste the flavours of the world in Victoria Park at the weekend,…
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.…
Beekeepers and honey bee experts in East London Line Boroughs are on the front line of a national crisis in the insect’s population and doing everything they can to halt its decline. Bees are vital to pollination for the country’s multi-billion pound agricultural industries. At the same time an urban…
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…
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Demolition work has begun at the Blackwall Reach Regeneration Project in Tower Hamlets.…
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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…
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