This Thursday, residents in Tower Hamlets will vote for the borough’s first ever elected Mayor. Nothing particularly unique in this; other London councils, including Hackney and Newham, already have such a position. Yet the race in Tower Hamlets has put the ‘sham’ in shambolic, and …
Photo / luciferscage The final route (PDF) for the 2012 marathon has been published, and as expected, it will take place in central London, breaking with longstanding Olympic tradition by finishing far from the main stadium. The route begins and ends in The Mall, and …
Photo / David Hunt Via @JohnRentoul, we come across this entry, posted on the Socialist Unity website, which suggests that George Galloway has decided to return to London politics and make a run for mayor of Tower Hamlets. The east London borough voted earlier this …
Image by M@. Southbank Centre and Waterloo station denied listed status. Lutfur Rahman ejected as Labour candidate for Tower Hamlets mayoral election by the party. Brixton bus depot goes up in flames. Vans/minibuses get reprieve from emission zone till 2012. Non-controversial new portrait of queen …
Looks like bad news for all those into their funky house and dirty pop, if this poster on Old Ford Road is anything to judge by. The ‘new era of club culture’ in the East End, with “massive DJ’s/PA’s” (sic) every Friday night, has been …
Police in Tower Hamlets have begun an investigation after a video that appears to show a masked gang beating a fox to death was posted online. The clip, which was briefly available on YouTube, Vimeo, and Facebook before being deleted, shows the drugged animal being …
Christ Church by Matt From London Spitalfields Music started as a small classical music festival in Christ Church, east London, 1976. In the following three decades, the festival became an annual Winter and Summer Festival covering other genres, including events, workshops and participation across Tower …
Tower Hamlets council has been successful in its application for a Lottery grant for Victoria Park, meaning that the planned £12 million regeneration of the east end greenspot will go ahead in time for the Olympics. The pockets of Britain’s legion Saturday night scratchcard addicts …
A short notice on Tower Hamlets council’s website reveals that, “due to the large amount of public interest”, the planning application for the Islamic-flavoured arches at either end of Brick Lane has been temporarily withdrawn. The council, which was recently the subject of a Dispatches …
The “hijab gates” planned for the north and south end of Brick Lane have attracted 158 letters of complaint from local residents, and not a single missive of support, according to a report by Tower Hamlets council. Blithely ignoring these sentiments, TH are pressing ahead …
Photo / Tanya N A plan to build a hijab-inspired gateway at the entrance to Brick Lane has upset local residents and the Spitalfields Trust. Tower Hamlets council is eager to increase the number of tourists (for which, read: richer folk) who pass through the …
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