Borough cop used marked police car to steal drugs cash

A PC based in the Tower Hamlets and Hackney Borough Command Unit (BCU) has been dismissed…

Whatever the result of the Mayoral referendum, democracy will lose

It is convenient for many politicians to forget that Lutfur Rahman and John Biggs are two…

Liveable Streets Bow report approved by Cabinet

Main event of last night's Cabinet meeting was to make a decision on the Liveable Streets…

Attempt to ram through Liveable Streets Bow decision today

Mayor Biggs Cabinet will today attempt to get approval for the Liveable Streets Bow decision through…

Moley’s Council News Snippets – Part One

Whatever is going on inside the Council at the moment it is very messy indeed.

Moley’s Council News Snippets – Part Three

Quite what went on with the transfer of Poplar HARCA housing stock to the Council is…

Moley’s Council News Snippets – Part Two

In a more recent Audit Committee meeting there is reference to all sorts of stuff that…

Row over new Chinese Embassy in Tower Hamlets escalates

Chinese Ambassador is none too pleased with Tower Hamlets residents as row over building the new…

UK Youth Fund Covid relief grants for youth organisations

Youth organisations with an income of under £250,000 can apply for grants of up to £50,000…

Move Watney Track & Trace to St. George’s Town Hall

At Council tomorrow night a petition will be heard to move the Covid-19 Test & Trace…

Campaign to keep St George’s swimming pool open for everyone

Amanda Day of the Wapping-based Turks Head charity needs you to sign the petition to ensure…

Hard up LBTH has no idea where £112m Covid-19 cash went

Whitehall has given £112m Covid-19 relief funding to Tower Hamlets council. A FOI response shows the…

Referendum: Wood, Khan, Golds highlight ‘flaws’ in Labour proposal

Opposition councillors Andrew Wood, Rabina Khan and Peter Golds will propose a motion at Council to…

Secret meeting of General Purposes Committee to be held today

Later today, Friday 13th November, there is an Extraordinary General Purposes Committee meeting at 2pm. Anyone…

Lutfur Rahman is back and on the Mayoral campaign trail

To the surprise of nobody ever Lutfur Rahman has announced his candidacy to be the next…

Lutfur Rahman Fan Club holds its first (secret) meeting

Tower Hamlets Labour Party 'group' met in secret on Monday evening and did exactly what Mayor…

Tower Hamlets plans to close all borough Idea Stores & libraries

Tower Hamlets is planning to close all borough Idea Stores and libraries generate up to £40…

For Tower Hamlets to prosper the elected Mayor role must go

A Labour Party meeting this evening will discuss the attempt to reintroduce democracy to the borough…

Budget Consultation highlights Idea Store visits but that’s it

Tower Hamlets Council has launched its Budget consultation exercise for a year in the future but…

Cllr. Puru Miah reports Mayor Biggs & Cllr. Brady to the cops

Even by Rotten Boroughs standards Tower Hamlets has excelled itself this week with two quite extraordinary…

Biggs quietly delegates Directly-Elected Mayor powers to Cabinet

At Cabinet last week Mayor Biggs mentioned that he had delegated his Directly-Elected Mayor powers to…

Let us decide to make the cost of corruption too expensive

Ten years of being subject to the whims of two Directly-Elected Mayors, first Rahman, now Biggs,…

Ditch The Directly-Elected Mayor events / kerfuffle timeline

Ditch The Mayor Timeline. It's a line of times. And a sign of the times. Which…

Day Centre closures: “Corporate spiel can justify most actions”

Zakir Hussain gave an extremely good account of himself at last week's cabinet meeting when speaking…