Article by Councillor Marc Francis, Bow East With the second wave of Coronavirus now upon us, it’s difficult to find a silver lining to this terrible pandemic. However, the support many people gave their neighbours
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Feedback how local Healthcare Services are performing, Coronavirus Tests, TFL, Cash Machines
How are local health services performing during Covid-19? Tower Hamlets Healthwatch want local residents to tell them how the system is working for local residents. Leave your feedback here. They’re holding a follow-up Zoom webinar
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Don’t Get Caught Out – Parking Permits, Congestion Charge & ULEZ
Parking Permits in Tower Hamlets Tower Hamlets no longer issues squares of paper as parking permits. They’ve gone paperless, and your numberplate tells traffic officers that you’ve paid. They say you’ll get an email reminder
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Tower Hamlets Bin Strike, TV Licence Update, Geezers Meetings Suspended
Tower Hamlets Bin Strike Veolia runs the bin collections contract for Tower Hamlets. Refuse collectors were on strike from 9th-16th March as Veolia has withheld holiday pay which was due to them. A few days
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Visual Thinking Part 1 – Mile End Art Pavilion
Fabulous exhibition: Visual Thinking Part 1 2020 – now closed Last Sunday I walked past the Ecology Pavilion in Mile End Park. It was shuttered front and back as usual. I was fully expecting to
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Crime in Tower Hamlets
Murder Rate The number of murders across the UK last year fell to 650 from 774 in 2018. Police attribute this to a 32% rise in stop-and-search checks. Merseyside, Manchester and the West Midlands saw
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Plans to cast bells in Whitechapel Bell Foundry
Whitechapel Bell Foundry update: Tower Hamlets Council have approved the plans. Read the news on the BBC. The Tower Hamlets Development Committee will consider the latest planning application for Whitechapel Bell Foundry next Thursday, 14th
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Whitechapel Bell Foundry planning update
Kay Harding wrote in to say that she’d signed the petition to save the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, but wondered what was happening next. I promised to conduct some research. I started with the Tower Hamlets
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