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	East End Life would serve the community better fortnightly IT IS heartening to know that while the whole world grapples with rippling credit crunch effects and plunging stock markets, and businesses and individuals struggle to save, recession-proof East End Life continues to run in its own little million-pound bu... » MORE

East End Life would serve the community better fortnightly

Deputy Editor Ted Jeory delivers his weekly take on East End politics ISN T IT heartening to know that while the whole world grapples with rippling credit crunch effects and plunging stock markets, and businesses and individuals struggle to save, recessi... » MORE

Gun site is out of protest range

IT’S ALWAYS amusing to listen to the sound of council officers squealing when they accidentally let the cat out of the bag. Not so funny for the people whose homes they’re messing with though... » MORE

Hiding our proud Olympic flag from East Enders

JUST a few hundred metres from where I live in Bow, there’s a large building site. Take a stroll down the ‘Greenway’ and you get a detailed view of one of the most awe-inspiring construction projects anywhere in Europe: the Olympic Stadium site—So what are Tower Hamlets councillors doing now we’re an official ‘host’ borough? Well. They’re flying a London Olympic flag... » MORE

Does Vicky Park really need a spruce-up?

TOWER Hamlets council is about to embark on another of those schemes it describes as “consultation”—this time about how to “improve” Victoria Park. Some are cynical about these things, believing they’re merely tick-box exercises to dress up pre-determined choices... » MORE

Archer sets sights on the silly season

AUGUST is usually termed the silly season in the newspaper industry, the month when stories appear about great white sharks hunting off the Cornwall coast, giant cats roaming... » MORE

Town Hall can learn—from our Hackney neighbours

FOR a fair while now, members of the Tower Hamlets 'development' and 'strategic development' committees have been urged to undertake more site visits before actually determining any planning application. Having watched Hackney councillors conduct their committee debate last week, I think our lot at Tower Hamlets should visit Hackney Town Hall too... » MORE

So what’s happened to that promise about Bonner School playground?

TWO years ago, in the face of local and national opposition, the council maintained its course and ploughed its PFI-funded bulldozers straight into heart of Old Bonner School in Bethnal Green. In place of the cherished Victorian building, they built a tarmac playground. And to soften the blow to the public, the council promised the new playground would be open to the local community out of school hours... » MORE

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