Residents in Bethnal Green are being asked for their views on Tower Hamlets Council’s plans to relieve gridlock on local streets. The proposals have been informed by a survey of more than 650 residents. They aim to prevent cars using residential roads as rat-runs and improve air quality and road safety as well as tackle crime and anti-social behaviour. Traffic ...

A new strategy for how the council and partners will deliver services for children and young people in Tower Hamlets was launched this week at a family fun day at Meath Gardens Children’s Centre with around 100 children and parents. Councillor Danny Hassell, Cabinet Member for Children, Schools and Young People who chairs the Children and Families Partnership Board,said: “I’m delighted to ...

F R Chowdhury:   In British India certain provinces were given self-rule. It was an eye wash to delay the freedom of India. The state concerned had a parliament or assembly to keep the elected members busy discussing various matters. There was also a cabinet to give public speeches. But the real power remained with the governor exercised through the ...

  Rayhan Ahmed Topader:   The EU’s plan to offer the UK an extension until 31 January 2020 is expected to be put on hold after Boris Johnson threatened to pull the Brexit deal if Jeremy Corbyn rejects a general election. Sources said the dramatic developments in Westminster needed to be fully understood and the choreography in Brussels could change. ...

Budding child politicians from across Tower Hamlets celebrated National Democracy Week with a raft of activities in and around the council. Children from Marion Richardson Primary School, Bigland Green Primary School, Blue Gate Field Junior School and English Martyrs Roman Catholic Primary School met Victoria Obaze, Speaker of the Council, to hear about her role. They viewed the robes and ...

  F R Chowdhury:   We have an Anti-Corruption Commission (ACC) to deal with corruption. Corruption does not mean monetary/ financial corruption alone; it also includes other forms of corruption. Nepotism and favouritism are also corruption. If the commission works in full force then corrupt officials should be scared of indulging in corruption. Country should be free of corruption. If ...

Man, 25, from Northern Ireland held on suspicion of murder after bodies found in Grays A murder investigation has been launched after 39 bodies were found inside a lorry from Bulgaria on an industrial estate in Essex. A 25-year-old driver, from Northern Ireland, has been arrested on suspicion of murder. The victims, found at the Waterglade industrial park in Grays, ...

The government will abandon its Brexit bill if MPs vote down its three-day timetable to get it through Parliament. Boris Johnson told MPs if the programme was rejected and the EU confirmed a delay to the 31 October exit, he would instead push for a general election. The PM said Parliament had been “caught in a deadlock of its own ...

By Naz Islam: My recent visit to Bangla-desh was incredible, a truly memorable experience to last a lifetime. I visit Bangladesh relatively frequently, at least once or twice a year, but my visit in September 2019 will always be the most eventful and remarkable. For those of you who don’t know, I am involved with the Conservative Party here in ...

New research from the National Housing Federation (NHF) shows that more than nine in ten homes for private rent (94%) in England are too expensive for those on housing benefit. The NHF analysed 75,000 rental homes advertised on Zoopla and compared the cost of rent for each property with the rate of Local Housing Allowance that a family requiring that ...