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Tower Hamlets Council members have agreed a motion in opposition to London City Airport growth proposals. The motion was debated at a full council meeting on Wednesday 18th September. Members criticised the environmental damage that would be done through any increases in operations and highlighted the detrimental impact that the airport has on residents living in the East End, including Tower ...

  Tower Hamlets Council marked the next stage of building works to transform one of London’s most famous buildings into a new town hall by capturing a moment in time in its foundations. On Friday 20 September, a time capsule was deposited inside the former Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel to mark the significance of the council’s ambitious project and ...

London’s top gardeners recognised at annual awards ceremony at the Mile End Arts Pavilion. More than 300 of the best horticulturists from across the London boroughs gathered at the Arts Pavilion in Mile End on Friday 20 September for the annual London in Bloom (LiB) Awards. The awards recognise the individuals and community groups who do most to improve the natural ...

Letters and Post-it notes will be replaced by body implants and hologram technology as ways people communicate in the future, a new online survey for Barnardo’s reveals. Polling firm YouGov asked 3,262 children and adults across Britain how they used to communicate, how they do now and how they think young people will talk to each other in 30 years’ ...

Former General Secretary of Bangladesh Welfare Association, Alhaj Ahbab Hossain, a senior community leader, is no longer (Inna Lillah Ew Inna Ilaihi Raziun). He left his last breath at a London hospital on Friday afternoon. At the time of his death, he was 81 years old. The late Ahbab Hossain, the son of Hasan Fatema Pur of Jagannathpur Upazila in ...

  Ms Clare Matysova, equality, diversity and inclusion manager (EDI) at the University of East London, has been shortlisted in this year’s Forward Ladies (FL) National Awards. Ms Matysova has been shortlisted in the ‘Public Sector/Academia/Not for Profit Leader’ category in the London and South region. Ms Matysova said, “I’m quite surprised by the nomination but really pleased at the ...

A University of East London artist is addressing Brexit with an exhibition featuring boats made of bank notes from around the world, adrift on a sea of copper coins. Susan Stockwell’s ‘Trade Winds’ is running from now until 15 October at St Peter’s Church, Castle Hill, Cambridge, (next to Kettles Yard). ‘Trade Winds’ addresses questions that are relevant to today’s Brexit conundrum and ...

The Mayor of Tower Hamlets has backed a new campaign from the homelessness charity Crisis, calling for the government to urgently address the gap between Local Housing Allowance rates and private sector rents. Local Housing Allowance (LHA) rates are set by the government and are used to calculate Housing Benefit for tenants renting from private landlords. LHA rates were created ...

  Extra places available for affordable holiday scheme for October half term. Record attendance at summer holiday schemes. Ofsted has rated a Tower Hamlets summer holiday scheme as good following an unannounced inspection last month. On one of the busiest days of the summer programme, Ofsted visited as 230 children were attending the scheme, which also included two trips to ...

Projects to support future young leaders and transform a community garden among the successful bids. A total of 13 local community projects and thousands of residents are set to benefit from almost £45,000 funding announced as part of Tower Hamlets Council’s Small Grants Fund (SGF). The fund was agreed last year to support mainly small scale community projects with one ...