The Latest Breaking News from Tower Hamlets

Detectives say victim in her 40s is known to younger male suspect and there is ‘no wider threat to public’

Tower Hamlets, Islington and Camden top the list as number of Londoners approaches 10 million

Tower Hamlets set for 20.4% rise in residents, including net increase of more than 87,000 people from abroad, says ONS

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

Tower Hamlets has set aside £3million over the next three years for the grants

Tower Hamlets Council is introducing new rules to combat dog-related antisocial behaviour

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

Jack Hague died following a fight on Corfield Street last May

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

“It’s always frustrated me that we can’t compost here – even though I get why. Tower blocks just aren’t built for it,” said Alexandra, a 42-year-old Tower Hamlets resident, living on the ninth floor. She gestures toward the tall buildings in her neighbourhood. Her frustration is shared by many, where…

Pennyfields Park in Poplar not only has alliterative appeal, it is a modestly attractive green space in a not terribly beautiful part of Tower Hamlets. If you were there around five o’clock in the afternoon yesterday you could have witnessed a group of young men chasing another, with machetes. That’s…