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  Restaurant owners are joining forces in a bid to end single plastic use in the industry and reduce pollution. The Plastic Pollution Awareness and Actions Project (PPAAP) charity has set up a pilot scheme to help restaurant and takeaway owners learn how to adapt to a plastic-free model. And now over 40 restaurant owners and managers have signed up. ...

Citizens of EU countries other than the UK who have made their home in Tower Hamlets are being encouraged to take advantage of a new council service. Non-UK EU citizens who do not hold British citizenship and wish to continue living and working in the UK after 31 December 2020 will need to apply for settled or pre-settled status as ...

Over 170 parents and carers attended the 13th annual parent conference organised by the Tower Hamlets Parent and Family Support Service, which had a theme of empowering and supporting our children to thrive. Key speakers included Councillor Danny Hassell, Cabinet Member for Children, Schools and Young People, Christine McInnes, Divisional Director, Education & Partnerships at the council and Martha Evans from ...

Emdad Rahman: The Beanibazar Jonokollyan Somitee has celebrated thirty years of excellence in serving the greater community. Guests in attendance at a gala evening at The Royal Regency, Newham included London Assembly Member Unmesh Desai, Councillor Nazma Rahman from Camden, Tower Hamlets Mayor John Biggs, Councillor Faruk Choudhury from Barking & Dagenham,  former Councillor Ataur Rahman, Chairman of Channel S ...

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets John Biggs has called on the Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond to reverse cuts to police budgets as part of the Spring Statement today (Wednesday 13th March 2019). Tower Hamlets has seen a dramatic reduction in the number of police officers and PCSOs on the streets since 2010, and the Mayor has urged the Chancellor ...

Women in Tower Hamlets have spent the last week breaking down barriers and laying foundations for a career in construction. Fourteen female residents of the borough came together for a five-day construction skills course, providing them with an insight into the many exciting roles available in one of London’s most dynamic sectors. Women only make up around 14 per cent ...

John Biggs, Mayor of Tower Hamlets has announced that 50 primary schools in the borough will benefit from School Streets, an initiative to close roads to traffic or restrict the volume of cars passing by schools. £200,000 has been allocated for works to start on fifteen schools this year and next (2019/2020). Each school will get a tailored programme of ...

Tower Hamlets Council held its sixth Big Clean Up between 24 February and 3 March and saw bumper numbers of people join in to collect more litter than ever before. A total of 197 volunteers came together to save the borough’s streets and green spaces from litter that filled 131 large waste bags, as well as six large green waste ...

Mr Robert Chatterton Dickson has been appointed British High Commissioner to the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in succession to Ms Alison Blake CMG who will be transferring to another Diplomatic Service appointment. Mr Chatterton Dickson will take up his appointment in March 2019. the High Commissioner designate Robert Chattarton Dickson is going to present his credential to the Honourable President ...

Ansar Ahmed Ullah: Prof Sohela Nazneen said Bangladesh has made remarkable progress at an amazing pace on women empowerment. She was speaking at the Second Annual Sheikh Mujibur Rahman Lecture 2019 on 7 March at the Wolfson Theatre, SOAS University of London organised by the 7th March Foundation and SOAS South Asia Institute, University of London The Lecture titled ‘Contentious Empowerment?: Women as ...