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Victoria Park 'privatisation' row erupts as council increases festival days

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman said the town hall had 'to squeeze as much as we can' from its assets

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan urged to use legal powers to prevent East End LTNs being axed

Last-ditch plea to prevent Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman ditching walking and cycling schemes

Evening Standard

Teenage fix: the London council spending big on youth services

With its surging population and rife child poverty, Tower Hamlets says its £13.7m funding package will pay off

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‘They want to give our pitch to boys’: girls’ football team fight to take up space

East London’s Vicky Park Rangers under-13s are mounting a legal challenge after being turfed out

The Guardian - UK

Piles of rubbish to be cleared as Tower Hamlets strike ends with pay deal

Tower Hamlets Council and Unite the Union negotiated an end to a pay dispute involving waste service workers and street cleaners.

The Independent UK

Tower Hamlets: Piles of rubbish to be cleared as refuse collection workers strike called off

Festering piles of rotting rubbish have been piling up in the streets of Tower Hamlets since refuse workers launched strike action over a week ago

Evening Standard

What a load of rubbish! Thousands of bin bags litter London streets as strike extended for two weeks

6ft high piles of rubbish in echoes of the winter of discontent

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Tower Hamlets waste collection strike: When are workers striking and why?

Strike action leads to waste piling high in Brick Lane

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets set to rip out majority of popular low traffic neighbourhoods

Mayor Lutfur Rahman was re-elected on a pro-motorist platform but consultations have found the traffic calming schemes are liked by residents

Evening Standard

City Hall committee urges tighter regulation to stop e-bike fires

City Hall politicians have urged ministers to crack down on dangerous e-bikes products

Evening Standard

Row breaks out over Tower Hamlets plan to spend thousands on ‘lavish’ office for mayor Lutfur Rahman

A row has broken out over “lavish” upgrades to Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s office in Tower Hamlets’ new town hall

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With rents at record high, and a chronic shelter shortage, why are so many London homes left empty?

Who owns the capital’s tens of thousands of uninhabited properties? And amid an affordable housing crisis, how can we get them back in to use?

Evening Standard

Calpol is most shoplifted item in London borough amid cost-of-living crisis

Tower Hamlets has the highest level of child poverty in the UK with over 50% children living in households below the poverty line

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets stripped of £1m funding amid pro-car agenda

A London borough whose mayor is pursuing a pro-car agenda has been stripped of more than £1 million in transport funding — and faces losing a similar amount next year.

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TfL withholding £1m from Tower Hamlets mayor because he may axe LTN road safety schemes

Transport for London is withholding more than £1m from a borough mayor who is considering axing road schemes designed to improve safety for pedestrians and cyclists.

The Guardian - UK

Tower Hamlets mayor accused of ‘culture war’ against low-traffic schemes

Campaigners criticise Lutfur Rahman as he consults for second time on London borough’s LTNs

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets schools urge Mayor Lutfur Rahman not to bin road safety schemes

Five heads have written to the Tower Hamlets mayor urging him to retain and improve the traffic-calming measures in and around Old Bethnal Green Road and Columbia Road

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London borough to turn 75% of its streets into Low Traffic Neighbourhoods

The move will see most vehicles banned from three quarters of Hackney’s streets

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London ‘school street’ at centre of dispute dismantled by council

Tower Hamlets removes play space in long-running row with parents over traffic near primary school

Evening Standard

School street battle: Tower Hamlets council contractors ‘arrive in dead of night’ to axe child safety scheme

Council contractors arrived in the dead of night to move barriers and a play area that formed part of a “school street” in Tower Hamlets.

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets: Children lie down in front of council workers trying to rip up school street blockade

Children celebrated after their action prevented traffic calming measures being removed at the order of mayor Lutfur Rahman

The Guardian - UK

Pupils block London council’s attempts to remove play space near school

Latest attempt to dismantle primary ‘school street’ in Tower Hamlets disrupted amid pollution concerns

Daily Mirror

Students to be paid £400 to stay in school - is your child due payment?

Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman has reintroduced the Educational Maintenance Allowance for students from lower income backgrounds, a Blair policy that was scrapped by the coalition in 2010

Evening Standard

Children protest against Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman's decision to axe school street

Sadiq Khan has announced £69m a year to create more “school streets” across London – as one borough mayor infuriated parents by ripping out a scheme protecting primary school children. Lutfur Rahman, the mayor of Tower Hamlets, ordered workmen to remove the traffic restrictions around Chisenhale school in Bow on…

Evening Standard

Children and parents take to the barriers in bid to stop Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman axing school street

Protest comes after London mayor Sadiq Khan announced £69m a year for borough schemes, including more school streets

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