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OPINION - Greetings Paul Scully, from the 'no go' area Tower Hamlets — real London life is here

One of the gifts of living in a city as potentially daunting as London is taking ownership of a corner of it. Nothing anchors you like local knowledge. The longer you stay somewhere, the more emotional it becomes, an esoteric feeling lodged somewhere warmly around the stomach, like a hot-water…

Evening Standard

The ‘launderette family’ fighting to save a community space in east London

Residents were shocked when Tower Hamlets council shuttered a much-loved resource in the gentrifying area

The Guardian - UK

There aren’t any ‘no-go areas’ in Tower Hamlets, only years of government neglect

Letter: Representatives of 14 organisations based in Tower Hamlets respond to comments by the Tory MP Paul Scully that it is a ‘no-go area’ for non-Muslims

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Paul Scully apologises for 'no-go areas' comment after uproar in Tower Hamlets

Former London minister ‘sorry’ for comment made amid the fallout of the Lee Anderson row

Evening Standard

'Tower Hamlets is brilliant': East Londoners reject Paul Scully's 'no-go areas' comments

The former London minister claimed parts of the borough were ‘no-go areas, mainly because of doctrine’

Evening Standard

Paul Scully 'regrets' storm after claiming parts of Tower Hamlets and Birmingham are 'no-go areas'

Former mayoral candidate says he was ‘misconstrued’ in interview after he also condemned Lee Anderson

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Tower Hamlets council facing second Government probe in a decade

There has been ‘significant churn’ of senior officers under Mayor Lutfur Rahman, Government officials say

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High Court battle looms over Lutfur Rahman's bid to axe low traffic neighbourhoods in Tower Hamlets

Government orders inspectors into council amid concerns about appointments and spending

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets has worst recycling rate in England

In contrast Bromley had the highest household recycling rates in London

Evening Standard

Eight-month drug crackdown in Tower Hamlets sees 126 arrests

Officers have arrested 13 people for possession with intent to supply class A drugs

Evening Standard

City Hall approves plan for 1,500 new homes in Poplar after Tower Hamlets moved to block scheme

Deputy mayor Jules Pipe has overturned a decision by Tower Hamlets Council last year to refuse permission for the project

Evening Standard

City Hall told to allow over 1,500 new homes on Poplar's Aberfeldy Estate

Councillors in Tower Hamlets rejected the scheme in February 2023 - but deputy mayor could overturn that decision

Evening Standard

Pro-Israel lawyers demand Met investigate 'intimidating' Palestine flags in Tower Hamlets

UK Lawyers for Israel claim Palestine flags and pro-Gazan posters could spark violence against Jews

Evening Standard

Grenfell should have been a wake-up call – but the UK still doesn't take fire safety seriously because of who is most at risk

In March 2023, a fire in Tower Hamlets, east London, claimed the life of Mizanur Rahman, a 41-year-old father-of-two from Bangladesh. Five fire engines and 35 firefighters attended the call to the two-bedroom flat in Maddocks House, on the Tarling West housing estate, in the early hours of the morning.

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Crowd-funded legal bid launched to block Tower Hamlets mayor ripping out traffic-calming measures

Almost 700 people have already pledged £37,000 to the legal fighting fund – though another £45,000 is needed to fund the case

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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

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'Hundreds' of schoolchildren join pro-Palestine protest in Tower Hamlets

Thursday's march forms part of Friday's "National School Strike for Palestine" initiative

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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

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Tower Hamlets Council faces backlash after girls’ football pitch awarded to male team

Club says players were left ‘distraught’ after a three year deal was scrapped

The Guardian - UK

How British refuse collectors won their strikes and became a model for successful trade unionism

As mountains of rubbish built up in Tower Hamlets and elsewhere, authorities were forced to listen, says Polly Smythe, labour movement correspondent at Novara Media

Evening Standard

OPINION - The Standard View: A reminder that rubbish collection is as vital to a city as transport and policing

The Evening Standard takes out the trash. Barely hours after publishing our front page illustrating the festering piles of rubbish (and only hinting at the smell) in London’s East End, Tower Hamlets council reached a deal with striking refuse collectors.

The Guardian - UK

London refuse workers’ strike ends as pay deal with council reached

Unite says extra £750 secured for Tower Hamlets striking workers after rubbish left on streets for nearly two weeks

Evening Standard

OPINION - Why is there so much rubbish on the streets in London?

The people who collect the bins in Tower Hamlets are on strike. Reportedly not so in Camden, though they might as well be. For three years now, I have rented an apartment in NW6 – formerly of Dusty Springfield fame, now just of dust and dirt.

The Independent 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.

Evening Standard

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

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