The Latest Breaking News from Tower Hamlets

May 5 sees a big set of elections across the UK. In England, there are contests across 146 councils. In London, every council seat is up for election across all 32 boroughs. Elsewhere where there are elections, at least one-third of the council seats are being contested, with some authorities…

Londoners headed to the polls on May 5. Joe Talora has the lowdown on the vote in Tower Hamlets

Whitechapel station will get new Bengali signage to acknowledge the contribution of the Bangladeshi community to east London.

Detectives have arrested 42 men suspected of running a £3million-a-year county lines drug dealing network in east London.

Mr Rahman was found guilty of corrupt and illegal practices by an Election Court in 2015

Tower Hamlets council to pay £24,000 in legal costs

The news that flats in London were beginning to catch up with the rest of the country in terms of property price growth – and in some cases outstrip them – is unlikely to be welcomed by any potential first-time buyers out there looking to take advantage of the pandemic…

Roads in Haringey, Tower Hamlets, Croydon , Hackney and Enfield will see lower speed limits introduced in bid to cut injuries and deaths

A fire in Tower Hamlets in London has seen the London Fire Brigade dispatch around 70 firefighters tonight with 20 people evacuated and a woman resuced from the flames