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Major London council set for £19 million overspend

Borough mayor Lutfur Rahman told his cabinet: ‘you can’t live on handouts’

Evening Standard

'Save our LTNs!' £100,000 crowdfunded battle to save three low traffic neighbourhoods in east London reaches Court of Appeal

Campaigners say it would cost £2.5m for Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman to axe the schemes

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets makes bold affordable housing pledge despite Sadiq Khan's new 20% target

EXCLUSIVE: Tower Hamlets has said it will ‘grow upward’ to deliver more affordable homes in the borough

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London borough becomes first in country to install specialist drug squad after record deaths in capital

Tower Hamlets Council’s seven officer team has seized a £50,000 haul of illegal substances from a vehicle in Blackwall Way car park

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Steve Reed convenes Tower Hamlets envoys as concerns over council persist

Exclusive: Communities secretary calls meeting over two councillors seeking electoral candidacy in Bangladesh

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‘History is repeating itself’: fight against far-right in London’s East End goes on

Eighty-nine years after residents drove Oswald Mosley’s Blackshirts from Tower Hamlets, anti-far right coalition is still vital in borough

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Muslim Women’s Network says charity run could have been more inclusive

But the organisation said it was also ‘concerned about the disproportionate media attention given to the event’.

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Tower Hamlets mayor backs 'inclusive sport' following row over ban on women taking part in Muslim charity run

The website claimed the event was ‘family friendly’ and ‘inclusive’, despite not being open to women and girls over the age of 12

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Housing in east London borough hit by 'shoddy workmanship' from repair firms, mayor says

Lutfur Rahman said he believed Tower Hamlets Council’s housing repair service was ‘not fit for purpose’

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London council forced to spend £8.5m to 'plug the gap' from Government's disability cuts

The leader of Tower Hamlets has called for the Government to reverse ‘the entirely avoidable suffering’

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Pro-LTN campaigners hail 'brilliant' news that Bethnal Green row will be heard in Court of Appeal

‘Going to court is a last resort for us, after all our attempts to engage constructively with the council failed,’ campaigners say

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London's oldest and cheapest spa reopens in world famous East End boxing venue

Reopening the venue on Thursday, the borough’s executive mayor Lutfur Rahman called in the ‘People's Spa’

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Rogue landlords who crammed up to 23 people into two bed flat where man died in e-bike fire fined £90,000

Father-of-two Mizanur Rahman, 41, died from the effects of smoke inhalation after the fire in the flat in Shadwell, east London

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Tower Hamlets: Ministers formally intervene at east London council after 'toxic' culture found

Ministerial intervention comes after report found Tower Hamlets’ failings was not providing value for taxpayers

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London’s most controversial mayor? Inside the complex world of Lutfur Rahman: power struggles, corruption…and popularity

Struck off as a solicitor and once banned from standing in elections, Lutfur Rahman remains a divisive figure

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Have London councils been given the green light to get rid of unpopular LTNs?

A High Court ruling could potentially have shifted the legal dial for councils looking to remove low traffic schemes

The Guardian - UK

Road safety campaigners lose high court challenge against Tower Hamlets mayor

Save Our Safer Streets ‘extremely disappointed’ judge finds against them over removal of low traffic neighbourhoods

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Tower Hamlets axing low traffic neighbourhoods is lawful, High Court rules

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman had promised to ‘abolish the failed Liveable Streets scheme’ in his 2022 re-election manifesto

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London council in legal action against building owners over ‘dangerous’ cladding

Tower Hamlets said it is the first local authority in the country to bring a legal action of this kind.

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1,500 London pensioners given Winter Fuel Payment to replace Government cut

Tower Hamlets steps in to pay pensioners Winter Fuel Allowance after Government cut

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Tower Hamlets: London council orders removal of dangerous Grenfell-style cladding in 'UK first'

Tower Hamlets said order against freeholder of building in Stepney was first of its kind in the UK

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'Interference with democracy': High Court battle over LTN removal ramps up

Mayor Lutfur Rahman is said to given ‘unintelligible and inadequate’ reasons for removing three LTNs in Bethnal Green

Evening Standard

OPINION - Woke councils should stay out of canine business

The news that Tower Hamlets is plotting to bring in new rules to insist dogs be on leads at all times has led to a twilight bark of outraged protest across the capital.

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Legal challenge against mayor Lutfur Rahman's bid to axe Tower Hamlets LTNs begins at High Court

Campaigners argue that removing low traffic schemes from Bethnal Green is ‘putting lives in jeopardy’

The Guardian - UK

Tower Hamlets mayor taken to court over removal of low-traffic neighbourhoods

Save Our Safer Streets crowdfunds to challenge Lutfur Rahman over scrapping three LTNs in London borough

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