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Truman's Brewery future being debated at Tower Hamlets Council

Protesters against Truman Brewery site development 

Mike Brooke

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Plans are being thrashed out tonight over the future of the massive Truman brewery site in Brick Lane following a series of people's protests. A planning application is before Tower Hamlets development committee
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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Paramedic volunteer Muhi Mikdad gets 'people' award

Paramedic named 'community champion' after tireless volunteering

Mike Brooke

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Artist Mohammed Ali ready to start his Hopetown mural

Artist Mohammed Ali gets thumbs up to paint mural in Brick Lane

Mike Brooke

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15-acre Westferry development on Millwall's waterfront on the Isle of Dogs

Housing

Big development decisions made by Tower Hamlets during the pandemic

Mike Brooke

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'Liveable Streets' pedestrianizing programme put on hold

Liveable Streets traffic schemes halted after protests across East End

Mike Brooke

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How weekend traffic ban at Brick Lane would look

Traffic ban to come to Brick Lane to allow al fresco street dining

Mike Brooke

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Mayor John Biggs tidying up the York stone pavement in Navarre Street

Environment News

Mayor helps clean streets in bid to boost East End's Covid recovery

Mike Brooke

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Busy most of the day... Greenwich foot tunnel, but this time no lifts up to street level

'Not good enough': Greenwich tunnel lifts closed for up to five months

Mike Brooke

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Camila Consolmagno sparks petition to save youth club being "outsourtced"

Fight to save Isle of Dogs youth club opens with teenagers' petition

Mike Brooke

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Aspire party's Kabir Ahmed storms home to win Weavers by-election

Tower Hamlets by-election: Aspire ousts Labour to take Weavers ward

Mike Brooke

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A tree crashed onto Gore Road near Victoria Park

Victoria Park

Lucky escape after huge tree branches crash onto road

William Mata

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Ibrahim Kargbo... strumming for support to keep St Andrew's youth club open

Tower Hamlets Council

Campaigners taking on town hall to keep Isle of Dogs youth club open

Mike Brooke

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So this is what the mayor of Tower Hamlets gets up to on rooftops when he's not behind his desk at the town hall!

Highest point reached on new homes in disused Bethnal Green car park

Mike Brooke

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Toddler joins mum in protest at Canary Wharf in May to get cladding removed from tower blocks

'Set deadline to remove cladding,' Tower Hamlets mayor urges

Mike Brooke

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Turntable platform ladder only reaches 10th floor at New Providence Wharf blaze

Green light for £1m in levies to be used for East End fire rescue ladder

Mike Brooke

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Apsana Begum during a Commons debate on housing in 2020

Courts

Trial of Poplar and Limehouse MP opens on 'housing fraud' charges

Mike Brooke

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Towering above Marsh Wall on the Isle of Dogs... but rescue ladders are 'not tall enough to reach above 10th floor'

London Fire Brigade

Call for developer levies to fund fire ladders tall enough for Isle of Dogs

Mike Brooke

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Mayor John Biggs... 'Universal Credit is a lifeline to many households'

Poverty threat to 37,000 families, Tower Hamlets mayor warns

Mike Brooke

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Voters go to the polls August 12 at Bethnal Green's Weavers ward

Elections

Candidates ready for Tower Hamlets by-election on August 12

Mike Brooke

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Protesters in Brick Lane against Truman office block plans

TV's Dan Cruickshank in 'last stand' to stop Truman office block plan

Mike Brooke

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Platform ladder used to reach blaze at New Providence Wharf on May 7

London Fire Brigade

'We need taller ladder for fire rescue,' Tower Hamlets councillor urges

Mike Brooke

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Tower Hamlets Council staff on strike this week outside town hall

Strike by Tower Hamlets council’s 'help assessors' over contracts dispute

Mike Brooke

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Room to cycle safely after school in Bethnal Green

Children come out to play as Bethnal Green road is closed to traffic

Mike Brooke

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John Pierce... speaking in Spitalfields 2018 on 'community cohesion'

Local Election

By-election called after Tower Hamlets councillor's death

Mike Brooke

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