Government threatens legal action against Hackney Council’s publication
Hackney Today faces government action. Pic: Hackney Citizen Hackney Council have been threatened with legal action by the Government after repeated requests to stop the printing of controversial...
View ArticleV&A salvages fragment of ‘Brutalist’ design as developers demolish...
Robin Hood Gardens exterior showing section acquired by the V&A Pic: Victoria and Albert Museum The Victoria &Albert Museum have acquired a section of the controversial Robin Hood Gardens...
View ArticleGang lives to park life: seized knives from London’s streets are transformed...
Steel Warriors open air gym in Poplar. Pic: Steel Warriors Once they were vicious and frightening weapons, synonymous with threats, violence and sometimes death among the communities of London. Now,...
View ArticleBiggs plea to include police funding in Budget ignored
Pic: Pixabay Tower Hamlets cannot replace all the local police officers lost to funding cuts, according to Mayor John Biggs, after his plea to the Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond to increase...
View ArticleCould Mayor John Biggs be the next Pied Piper of Tower Hamlets? Borough tops...
Tower Hamlets tops table for residential rat complaints. Pic. Pixabay Tower Hamlets has the highest number of complaints about rats in London, according to research by the Conservative group on the...
View ArticleBiggs: 20pc of private rented housing in Tower Hamlets falls below basic...
Public meeting on public rented housing in Whitechapel. Pic: Sam Corner Twenty per cent of private rentals in Tower Hamlets do not meet basic standards, John Biggs, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets told a...
View ArticleDating disasters: Local stories to help you survive this Valentine’s Day
Locals share their dating experiences this Valentines. Pic: FreeStocks.org Valentine’s Day is here. For some it will bring gushy cards, chocolates and flowers; for others, a depressing evening in...
View ArticleThe complex reality behind local refuge cuts
By Poppy Noor and Ellie Fry When we decided to investigate local domestic violence cuts, we wanted answers. In an ideal world news delivers concrete, indisputable facts. In reality, each time we got an...
View Article‘There weren’t enough already’: a domestic violence survivor questions...
Kio Sapeye. Pic: Poppy Noor By Ellie Fry & Poppy Noor When Kio Sapeye first left her partner, she had her clothes on her back and no idea where she was going. She took the train from her mum’s...
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