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Museum of Home 'wants to move' Geffrye statue

The statue of Sir Robert Geffrye at The Museum of the Home (formerly called The Geffrye Museum). Picture: Ken Mears

Julia Gregory LDRS

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A Hoxton museum has signalled that it wants to move the controversial statue of a slave owner from above its doorway.
John Biggs with his electioneering leaflets in 2015 when he ran for mayor

Elections

Tower Hamlets mayor's office denies using council resources for campaigns

Mike Brooke

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How City encroaches onto Spitalfields

Planning and Development

Voters to decide Spitalfields' future in referendum

Mike Brooke

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Carefully picking up the tiny cannisters that litter Wapping

Blitz begins on dumping 'laughing gas' cannisters in streets

Mike Brooke

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Mayor (right) watching children plant memorial tree in Millwall Park to those who sadly died in the pandemic

Festival 'thank you' to those who got us through pandemic

Mike Brooke

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Jump for joy at  Millwall Park's new playground

New playground for children opens to meet the neighbours after lockdown

Mike Brooke

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The Whitechapel Road to get top makeover

£9m boost to give Whitechapel a master makeover

Mike Brooke

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Cllr Rabina Khan... faced with hate messages on WhatsApp

'I refuse to suffer in silence' says councillor getting threats on WhatsApp

Mike Brooke

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Delayed for years... new docks footbridge everyone is waiting for

New footbridge at Canary Wharf delayed — despite cash in the bank

Mike Brooke

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Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak holds his ministerial 'Red Box' outside 11 Downing Street, L

Extra budget funding not enough to meet pressures, London Councils says

Chantelle Billson

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Whitechapel market... helping reboot small businesses

Tower Hamlets Council

1,000 East End jobseekers supported during Covid crisis, report reveals

Mike Brooke

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Breaking ground... housing Cllr Danny Hassell, with the mayor (right) and contractor boss Rob Bradley

Housing News

Building new tower block starts on Limehouse Triangle 'wildlife site'

Mike Brooke

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Justin... victim of false ad for a bedsit 

Housing News

Fines totalling £361k handed to East End landlords and agents

Mike Brooke

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Night Tube at Oxford Circus

Why TfL won't restart the night tube on Jubilee line just yet

Mike Brooke

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The outside of the Whitechapel Centre viewed from Myrdle Street.

Clubs affected as Tower Hamlets youth services budget quartered in a decade

Ben Lynch

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Some parents meeting the mayor (far right) at the internet safety session held at St John's Primary School

Parents get help from schools to prevent online child sex grooming

Mike Brooke

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Winning designs from Christmas 2020

Can you design a Christmas card for the mayor of Tower Hamlets?

Mike Brooke

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Kathy Bracken... leading her town hall protest in 2018

Raine's memorial to campaigner Kathy Bracken to be unveiled in Wapping

Mike Brooke

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Covid-19 memorial planting at Victoria Park

Trees planted to remember people who died of Covid in the East End

Mike Brooke

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Some of the players in mixed teams for the tournament

Race hate in the East End gets shown 'red card' on the pitch

Mike Brooke

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Sir George Iacobescu... giant behind Canary Wharf

Community names five heroes for Freedom of Tower Hamlets 2021

Mike Brooke

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It takes a lot of bottle for East End's road sweepers to clear up after the London Marathon

Tower Hamlets Council

London Marathon leaves 20 tonnes of litter for Tower Hamlets sweepers

Mike Brooke

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Cllr Kahar Chowdhury 'filling up' at charging point in Mile End Road

400 more electric car charging points planned for East End

Mike Brooke

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Protesters against Truman Brewery site development 

Truman's Brewery future being debated at Tower Hamlets Council

Mike Brooke

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Protesters stopping bulldozer in its tracks at Arnold Circus when 'Liveable Streets' scheme is being tested

'Future phases' of traffic ban programme scrapped following review

Mike Brooke

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London Assembly's Unmesh Desai (left) on fact-finding tour of Brick Lane with Spitalfields Forum members

Planning and Development

Date set for public referendum on Spitalfields' development future

Mike Brooke

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Giant Bangla artwork at the Idea Store library

Whitechapel lights up with artwork to mark Bangladesh independence

Mike Brooke

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Labour Party's Apsana Begum

Labour Party

Apsana Begum's trial cost over £24k more than she was accused of defrauding

Alastair Lockhart, local democracy reporter

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Councillor Ehtasham Haque

Labour Party

Councillor ex-husband of MP Apsana Begum suspended from Labour Party

Cash Boyle

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Garden party for those completing the integration programme 

Hundreds complete English language courses on 'integration programme'

Mike Brooke

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