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News and latest information about social care, the environment, sports and the local economy from Bow, Globe Town, Mile End, Fish Island and Hackney Wick.

ULEZ scrappage pressure
Local Local democracy News 

Mayor of London urged to revise scrappage scheme ahead of ULEZ expansion

June 1, 2023June 1, 2023 Ruby Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter 0 Comments News

Sadiq Khan faces increasing pressure to expand the ULEZ scrappage scheme that will impact those living and travelling in East

Outside of fried chicken shop in Shadwell.
Local News Social care 

Tower Hamlets children ‘bombarded’ with unhealthy junk food adverts

May 22, 2023May 22, 2023 Ruby Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter 0 Comments News

Tower Hamlets Council attributes high rates of childhood obesity to the concentration of unhealthy junk food advertising in the borough,

Electric rubbish collection truck Tower Hamlets
Environment Local News 

Tower Hamlets refuse workers miss bin collections because ‘they don’t know the routes’

May 19, 2023May 19, 2023 Ruby Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter 0 Comments News

Tower Hamlets Council attributes high numbers of fly-tipping to poor waste collection services, claiming that refuse workers miss roads due

View down Dray Walk, Brick Lane, with outdoor seating and umbrellas.
Local Local democracy News 

Tower Hamlets revealed to be the youngest borough in the UK

May 12, 2023May 12, 2023 Ruby Gregory, Local Democracy Reporter 0 Comments News

With a median age of 30 and half the borough’s children living in poverty, campaigners warn of the dangers of

Bus stop and terrace houses on Campbell Road, Bow, E3.
Incidents Local News 

Incident: Two men injured in shooting in Bow

May 9, 2023May 9, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

Police are investigating the firearm discharge, appealing to witnesses and anyone with footage of the suspect’s car travelling down Campbell

Calvin cycling on the grounds of the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park.
Calvin in Olympic Park © Madeleine Waller
Local News Social care 

London’s first inclusive cycling centre launched in Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park

May 5, 2023May 5, 2023 Valerie Vishnevetskaya 0 Comments News

The social enterprise Bikeworks has partnered with the London Legacy Development Corporation and London Marathon Foundation to address inequalities in

Brick cottage covered in ivy and surrounded by trees
Local Local economy News 

Remember the Big Breakfast house? It’s finally sold for 4.3 million pounds

April 19, 2023April 21, 2023 Valerie Vishnevetskaya 0 Comments News

Channel 4’s Big Breakfast house in Fish Island has sold for 4.3 million pounds, but had to reduce its price

Orford Road Liveable Street, a part of Waltham Forest's 'Mini Holland' Low Traffic Neighbourhood scheme
Environment Local News 

Panorama’s Road Wars explores divisions caused by Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

April 17, 2023April 18, 2023 BBC Local Democracy Reporter 0 Comments News

BBC’s Panorama documentary reveals an East London Councillor received death threats from residents opposing Low Traffic Neighbourhoods. A councillor in

Front cover and editor's letter of The Slice magazine, for the special Earth issue for spring summer 2023.
Photograph by Matt Payne © Matt Payne.
Local Local economy News 

The special Earth edition of The Slice Magazine is here

April 17, 2023April 19, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments News

The Slice Tower Hamlet’s fourth issue is a special earth edition and reports on initiatives that are tackling climate change

A block of flats with green doors in Whitechapel, East London, showing a courier delivering food at one of the apartments, and laundry hanging outside another. Photography by Matt Payne.
Photography by Matt Payne.
Environment Local 

Sustainable living in Tower Hamlets for the many, not the few

April 6, 2023April 14, 2023 Polly Nash 0 Comments Features

How our borough is becoming a model for grassroots environmental change, with organisations and charities proving the cost-of-living crisis and

A group of Irish Travellers sat and stood at the back of a traditional carriage.
Local Local democracy News 

Campaigners call for International Irish Traveller Day to be officially recognised

April 5, 2023April 6, 2023 George Hayes 0 Comments News

Campaigners from a steering committee of Irish Travellers have called for an International Irish Traveller Day to protect their way

Front of Tower Hamlets Council's Town Hall with its clock and ten windows looking out.
Tower Hamlets Town Hall in Whitechapel. Photo credit: Rich Mix, London
Local Local economy News 

Mayor Rahman’s budget: anti-austerity triumph or expensive gamble for Tower Hamlets

March 31, 2023April 11, 2023 George Hayes 1 Comment Features, News

Lutfur Rahman has unveiled an extraordinary budget to pump £40 million into public services in 2023 alone. But is it

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