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  Families flocked to Roman Road Market as Tower Hamlets residents joined cities around the world in celebrating Car Free Day on Sunday 22 September. People took to the streets for walking, cycling and a range of free fun activities to show the potential of traffic-free public spaces for everyone to enjoy. Housing estates in Bromley-by-Bow, Spitalfields and Poplar also ...

  The Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson, visited the London East Alternative Provision, (LEAP) on 18 September. Based in Bethnal Green, LEAP offers an educational programme for young people who for whatever reason, have not managed to succeed in mainstream schools. In 2019, 85 per cent of pupils at LEAP received a GCSE or equivalent in English and ...

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 ...