Wikio - Tower Hamlets

Where London works (The Croydonian)

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 15:49:00 GMT

(Click for legibility) Courtesy of Focus on London , again, plus a little light data mining, a breakdown of employment by borough. That the City and Westminster lead is not a huge surprise, but I do not think I would have guessed all of Camden (Holborn / Covent Garden), Tower Hamlets (Docklands), Hillingdon (Heathrow), Islington (City borders) , Southwark (South Bank). Sweet home Croydonia comes...

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Respect Councillor Defects to Labour (MayorWatch)

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 23:56:03 GMT

Labour are hailing the defection of Councillor Shahed Ali, deputy leader of Respect on Tower Hamlets council.

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Brent Ponders Name Change (Londonist)

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:28:12 GMT

Existential crises seems to be a common theme for various London spots at the moment. With Tower Hamlets calling for Shoreditch station to be renamed Banglatown , Brent Council has decided to get in on the act: they're considering rebranding themselves as Wembley Council . With the council set to relocate to new offices next to the much praised stadium by 2012, Brent are contemplating a name...

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Tower Hamlets - It's True! (Through The Scary Door)

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 18:59:00 GMT

Tower Hamlets has a population of 196,106. 51% of the population is white, 33% Bangladeshi, 3% Black African and 3% black Caribbean. The borough has the highest unemployment rate in Britain, at 12.7%. 37,500 pupils go to 98 schools in Tower Hamlets. Two football clubs, Beaumont Athletic F.C. and Sporting Bengal United F.C. are based in the borough.

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Labour growing on London councils (Luke's Blog)

Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:48:00 GMT

Slightly counter-intuitive given the national polls, but Labour in London is going through a remarkable period in terms of councillor defections to us from other parties. In the three adjoining boroughs of Haringey , Hackney and Tower Hamlets in 13 months we've had two defections from Lib Dem to Labour in Haringey , one from Lib Dem to Labour in Hackney and five from the various successor parties...

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TOWER HAMLETS - ITS TRUE! (SOCIALIST UNITY)

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 22:18:07 GMT

From the East London Advertiser. EXCLUSIVE by Ted Jeory MP GEORGE Galloway’s Respect project suffered another bitter blow tonight (Wednesday) after it emerged four of his former Tower Hamlets councillors in East London were on the brink of defecting to Labour. Shahed Ali, the deputy leader of the Town Hall’s Respect group, signed his Labour application form [...]

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Lango meet Dave, Heather and Jean at UNISON Conference (Barnet UNISON)

Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:30:00 GMT

Last week Lango managed to meet up with UNISON’s General Secretary Dave Prentis and the National Secretary Heather Wakefield. Both Dave and Heather gave a commitment to come down and meet Fremantle Care workers on the picket lines. Jean Geldart former Tower Hamlets Branch Secretary and Service Group Executive member for Local Government said Lango and the Fremantle Care workers were an inspiration...

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Suitability and marital harmony (nearlylegal)

Tue, 10 Jun 2008 21:53:29 GMT

Ahad v London Borough of Tower Hamlets [2008] EWCA Civ 606 was an application for permission to appeal from a s.204 appeal concerning a refusal of an offer of permanent accommodation. Tower Hamlets had discharged duty on the basis that the appellant had refused an offer of accommodation that was suitable and reasonable for him [...]

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Fobbed off (Laura's Plog)

noreply@blogger.com (Laura) — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 19:46:00 GMT

It should have been so simple. I wanted a spare key fob for the secure entrance on my block of flats. I made all the necessary arrangements; I phoned Tower Hamlets Council yesterday, and spoke to the requisite 14 different departments until we located the right one. I ascertained that to obtain a spare key fob, I needed to bring along a bill with my address on and some photographic ID, and pay...

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London, East End. (The Cartoonist)

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 08:14:59 GMT

A huge list of articles and images relating to the Tower Hamlets area in the 19th and early 20th Century.

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Lib Lab Pact: Does East London Show Us All the Way? (Chris Paul: Labour of Love)

noreply@blogger.com (Chris Paul) — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:18:00 GMT

Are Lib Dems and Labour really Montagues and Capulets, or Sharks and Jets of Tower Hamlets? Super scooper scribbler Ted Jeory casts these parties and star crossed lovers Stephanie and David as "opposites" . Though surely the Libs will be lucky to scrape fourth in Bethnal Green and Bow? Even the Tories have nicked a Trot or two. Nevermind. Can readers name any interesting precedents? Outside...

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Lurve Across The Divide (Rupa Huq's home on the web)

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 10:59:18 GMT

Sorrry to sound like a Spandau Ballet song (song in question being Through The Barricades) but some good news is here from East London Advertiser ace Ted Jeory that will interest all Tower Hamlets politics watchers (and those who keenly follow the life of Kingston University lecturers). It couldn’t have happened to a nicer pair. Congratulations [...]

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Tower Hamlets: Lib Dem councillor to marry Labour chair (Liberal England)

Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:42:00 GMT

The East London Advertiser reports a heart-warming story of love across the political barricades: Cllr Stephanie Eaton, leader of the Lib Dem group on Tower Hamlets council, is to marry David Edgar, former senior Labour councillor and now chair of the Tower Hamlets Labour party. It comes after a whirlwind romance that both have managed to keep hidden from the East End political rumour...

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Life expectancy best in South West England (Times Online)

Thu, 29 May 2008 23:00:48 GMT

East Dorset People in southwest England have the best chance of reaching the age of 75, while those in South Wales, Manchester, Liverpool and Tower Hamlets, East London, have the least. A study in Health Statistics Quarterly found that of those born in 2002-04, males in the South West have a 70 per cent chance of living to 75 and females 80 per cent; males in Manchester have a 52 per cent chance,...

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GAY'S GREEN STATION? (DISCODAMAGED)

Wed, 21 May 2008 15:08:48 GMT

Tower Hamlets councillor Abdal Ullah has said he wants the new Shoreditch Station to be renamed "Banglatown" in honour of...

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Councillor Calls for Shoreditch Station Renaming (Londonist)

Wed, 21 May 2008 10:58:13 GMT

Would Shoreditch still be the hip, trendy place it's purported to be if it were given a more ethnic name? The high street itself is in no danger, but a proposal has been put forward for a name change to the station for when it reopens in two years. Tower Hamlets councillor Abdal Ullah wants to see the station renamed Banglatown in honour of the large Bangladeshi community in the area. But TfL...

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Tower Hamlets Church Attack Update (UK Commentators)

Sat, 10 May 2008 09:27:00 GMT

... looking for three Asian youths, all aged about 16. The attack has also brought condemnation from Tower Hamlets Council. The authority's community cohesion spokesman, Cllr Ohid Ahmed, said: “The idiots who carried out this attack have let their community down as well as themselves and their families. Elsewhere in East Lahndahn - underclass man 'loses marbles' . THIS is the yob who has been...

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More than 20,000 City jobs will be axed in credit crunch fallout, says report (Daily Mail)

Fri, 09 May 2008 10:28:47 GMT

London will lose nearly 20,000 financial services jobs over the next three years, a report has predicted. The City will bear the brunt, with 10,000 jobs set to be axed, while another 9000 will go in Tower Hamlets - home to Canary Wharf - and Westminster, which hosts scores of hedge funds in Mayfair and St James's as well as thousands of media and marketing firms, lawyers and corporate headquarters...

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Shoreditch or Banglatown (Pub Philosopher)

Tue, 06 May 2008 14:24:00 GMT

Here's another great story from Tower Hamlets. Bangladeshi groups in and around Brick Lane are campaigning to have the planned new railway station at Shoreditch High Street renamed 'Banglatown'. Having effectively banned the filming of the movie Brick Lane in...

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Interview: Shirley Houghton, Conservative London Assembly candidate (London SE1 community website)

see-website-for-real-email-address@london-se1.co.uk (London SE1 website team) — Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:58:52 GMT

The Tories came third in the first two London Assembly elections in Lambeth and Southwark, but this year's candidate - Tower Hamlets councillor Shirley Houghton - is hopeful of a 'Boris bounce'. We put some of your questions to her.

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