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Adrian Zorzut Je Suis Charlie graffiti in Sclater Street, Shoreditch - Credit: Archant A street art campaigner has called for a rethink of Tower Hamlets’ graffiti policy as incidents in the borough continue to rise. Mark Clack, co-founder of Wood Street Walls - a grassroots street art collective - says councils like Tower Hamlets are using outdated methods to tackle the problem. His comment comes as wards across the borough continue to report high levels of graffiti. According to Tower Hamlet...

It is signed by Mayor Biggs along with Helel Abbas, the last council leader before a referendum in 2010 led to Tower Hamlets first election for an executive mayor that year - which Mr Rahman won in a landslide.  Others signing include mayoral candidates in previous years — the Conservatives Peter Golds, Anwara Ali and Chris Wilford; the Greens’ Tim Kierly; and the Lib Dems’ Elaine Bagshawe, John Griffiths and a former supporter of Mr Rahman, Rabina Khan, who later ran as a candidat...

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will join health campaigners to protest a US private takeover of GP services in south east London. US health insurance giant Centene Corporation merged with AT Medics earlier this year, which runs 37 GP practices across London in places such as Thamesmead, Woolwich, Farnborough and Peckham. Unite the union will stage a socially distanced protest outside the Tower Hamlet offices of the US corporation’s subsidiary, Operose, in opposition to “the accele...

Chiara Wilkinson, @chiarawilkinson Hackney Wick Covid-19 street art by anonymous artist Endless. - Credit: Sam Starbrook A group of Hackney Wick creatives have launched a petition calling on Hackney Council to consider developing more painting space for street artists in the area. Hackney Wick is home to a large concentration of artistic communities. Once an industrial hub, its warehouse buildings and walls lining the Hertford Union Canal are abundant with murals, installations, and stre...

First austerity, then Covid – how can councils balance the books? With falling incomes and increased expenditure, further cuts to local services are inevitable. Only more government spending can prevent this Pic: The financial centre of Canary Wharf in Tower Hamlets. Credit: Flickr Local authorities have been on the frontline throughout the pandemic, providing support to residents and distributing various government grants. But they have also been heavily financially impacted, and councils sa...

Video messages have been produced in languages including Somali, Swahili and Yoruba HESITANCY: African-Caribbean people have been urged to come forward for the vaccine (Image: via Getty Images) NHS STAFF have urged members of the African-Caribbean community in London to take the vaccine. Doctors, nurses and other frontline staff have come forward to reassure communities that receiving the jab is safe and has undergone testing to the highest standard. To increase vaccine take up clinicians have...

BBC News Published image captionAlexia Walenkaki was playing on a rope swing when a tree trunk fell on her in 2015 A council has been fined £330,000 after a five-year-old girl died when a swing set collapsed on her in east London. A court hearing on Wednesday heard Tower Hamlets Council failed to carry out an annual safety check which would have identified rot in the tree. The council was fined having previously admitted breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. It was also ordered to ...

Read online at https://workersliberty.org/node/36604 An Open Letter to my fellow Labour councillors Submitted by martin on 12 January, 2021 - 10:45 Author: Joshua Bennett Lovell Dear colleagues, The past decade in local government has been defined largely by one thing: cuts. And if this government has their way, this will be the story for the next decade too. Rishi Sunak has heaped yet more misery on councils. His budget provided £5bn less than the Tory leadership of the Local...

AJ 40 under 40: Stefanie Rhodes and Tom Routh 17 December 2020 By Will Ing, illustration by Simon Hayes The AJ 40 under 40 architects co-founded Gatti Routh Rhodes after winning the commission to redevelop an east London church Stefanie Rhodes and Tom Routh, both 39, did not know each other well when they co-founded their practice. It began over pizza in Bethnal Green, east London, when they were brought together by their mutual friend – and now co-director – Richard Gatti, who...

off an overpass on to a transit facility near the bronx zoo. three of the dead are children. cnns susan candiotti joins me now by the phone. susan, whats the latest on this? >> reporter: well, its a terrible, terrible accident, certainly, alison, but were hearing from the police that its either a car or a van with four adults and three children inside, all dead. they were on an expressway called the bronx river parkway, and the car crossed over the median into the opposing lanes of tra...