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January 12 2013, 6.56PM EastLondonLines
Pop-up artists take to the streets to save ‘Old Flo’
A movable pop-up art display by the artist known as Bob and Roberta Smith will travel around East London from January 10-18 to gather local communi...
September 27 2011, 12.58AM EastLondonLines
East London Gay Pride marches on
Hundreds of people celebrated East London Gay Pride on Saturday, three weeks after the original event was cancelled because of the EDL march throug...
September 26 2011, 2.50PM Hackney Citizen
East London celebrates Pride
Hundreds march peacefully from Hackney Town Hall despite the recent controversies over the appearance of 'gay-free zone' stickers
September 17 2011, 2.00PM EastLondonLines
Tower Hamlets may get its first free school
A proposal to open the first “free school†in Tower Hamlets is being considered by the Department for Education. The new primary school, which ...
August 3 2011, 6.24PM EastLondonLines
Mayor warns of ‘painful decisions’ on council cuts
Residents of Tower Hamlets have been warned that they face ‘painful’ decisions over which local authority services will face the axe. The alrea...
May 20 2011, 9.27AM EastLondonLines
Tower Hamlets to catch first glimpse of Olympic Torch
Tower Hamlets is set to be the first borough in London to see the Olympic Torch, as it travels on a seventy day tour of the UK. Residents are being...
March 19 2011, 6.09PM EastLondonLines
Brick Lane curry houses closed over ‘touting’
Several curry restaurants in Brick Lane have had their licenses suspended by Tower Hamlets council in order to stop illegal touting. Four restauran...
March 9 2011, 4.47PM EastLondonLines
Labour proposals for budget amendment scrapped in favour of £56m cuts for Tower Hamlets
Tower Hamlets is facing £56 million in cuts in the coming year after the council voted against Labour amendments to the independent Mayor’s budg...
February 18 2011, 6.20PM EastLondonLines
Curry nights replace 2012 Olympics Marathon route
A compensation package has been agreed for Tower Hamlets, to even out the borough’s loss of the Olympics Marathon. The agreement aims to make...
February 4 2011, 5.57PM EastLondonLines
Rahman pledges not to close children centres
There will be no “frontline cuts†to children’s centre workers and none of the 22 centres will be closed, Lutfur Rahman pledged at a meetin...
January 30 2011, 2.25PM EastLondonLines
Three schools among UK’s most improved
Three Tower Hamlets secondary schools are among the 50 most improved in the UK, according to the latest figures released by the Department of Educa...
January 27 2011, 2.32PM EastLondonLines
Rahman welcomes newly elected youth mayor
Nahimul Islam has beaten 18 other candidates to be elected as the new youth mayor of Tower Hamlets. Nahimul, 15, from Raine’s Foundation Scho...
January 23 2011, 2.44PM EastLondonLines
Untold stories of hope and survival on film
Survivors of Rwanda’s genocide will have their inspiring life stories brought into focus in Tower Hamlets this week, with a new exhibition of...
December 10 2010, 7.31PM EastLondonLines
Croydon councillors paid £1.5m last year
Croydon Council paid almost £1.5million to councillors last year, the highest spend for any borough in London, according to research carried out b...
November 28 2010, 3.55PM EastLondonLines
Council braced for job losses as budget slashed
Council workers in Tower Hamlets have been told to brace themselves for redundancies as staff budgets are slashed by £29 million. Tower Hamlets Ch...
November 22 2010, 4.06PM EastLondonLines
Athletics board backs Coe over 2012 marathon
The governing body for the world’s top athletes has backed London 2012’s decision to change the location of the Olympic marathon finish lin...
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