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The Latest Breaking News from Tower Hamlets

Blackwall and Silvertown tunnel tolls revealed: Motorists to be hit with £4 charge at peak times

Car drivers will pay £8 for peak hours return trip but £1.50 for off-peak journeys

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Keir Starmer 'very concerned' about fallout from Bangladesh comments made at general election event

Leaflets claiming Labour plan to ‘deport Bangladeshis’ have been dropping on doorsteps in the East End

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Prolific child sex abuser jailed for 14 years after assaulting eight-year-old girl in Tower Hamlets

Muhammad Abdu Miah Talukdar set for term behind bars after sex attack in east London

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Murder probe launched as woman, 21, found dead in Tower Hamlets

A woman in her 40s has been arrested in connection with the death

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London’s dirty secret: Why the capital is the worst place in the country at recycling

The city is the worst region in the country for recycling, with Tower Hamlets and Wandsworth bottom of the charts, and the mayor set to miss his targets. What needs to change?

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Tower Hamlets to pay strip club owner damages over closure after he claims councillor asked for bribe

Tower Hamlets council has launched an investigation following the claims from the owner of Club Oops in Whitechapel

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Tower Hamlets to take down Palestinian flags from its buildings

Mayor Lutfur Rahman announces move but denies the flags are ‘symbols of division’

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OPINION - Greetings Paul Scully, from the 'no go' area Tower Hamlets — real London life is here

One of the gifts of living in a city as potentially daunting as London is taking ownership of a corner of it. Nothing anchors you like local knowledge. The longer you stay somewhere, the more emotional it becomes, an esoteric feeling lodged somewhere warmly around the stomach, like a hot-water…

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The ‘launderette family’ fighting to save a community space in east London

Residents were shocked when Tower Hamlets council shuttered a much-loved resource in the gentrifying area

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There aren’t any ‘no-go areas’ in Tower Hamlets, only years of government neglect

Letter: Representatives of 14 organisations based in Tower Hamlets respond to comments by the Tory MP Paul Scully that it is a ‘no-go area’ for non-Muslims

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Paul Scully apologises for 'no-go areas' comment after uproar in Tower Hamlets

Former London minister ‘sorry’ for comment made amid the fallout of the Lee Anderson row

Evening Standard

'Tower Hamlets is brilliant': East Londoners reject Paul Scully's 'no-go areas' comments

The former London minister claimed parts of the borough were ‘no-go areas, mainly because of doctrine’

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Paul Scully 'regrets' storm after claiming parts of Tower Hamlets and Birmingham are 'no-go areas'

Former mayoral candidate says he was ‘misconstrued’ in interview after he also condemned Lee Anderson

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Tower Hamlets council facing second Government probe in a decade

There has been ‘significant churn’ of senior officers under Mayor Lutfur Rahman, Government officials say

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High Court battle looms over Lutfur Rahman's bid to axe low traffic neighbourhoods in Tower Hamlets

Government orders inspectors into council amid concerns about appointments and spending

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Tower Hamlets has worst recycling rate in England

In contrast Bromley had the highest household recycling rates in London

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Eight-month drug crackdown in Tower Hamlets sees 126 arrests

Officers have arrested 13 people for possession with intent to supply class A drugs

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City Hall approves plan for 1,500 new homes in Poplar after Tower Hamlets moved to block scheme

Deputy mayor Jules Pipe has overturned a decision by Tower Hamlets Council last year to refuse permission for the project

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City Hall told to allow over 1,500 new homes on Poplar's Aberfeldy Estate

Councillors in Tower Hamlets rejected the scheme in February 2023 - but deputy mayor could overturn that decision

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Pro-Israel lawyers demand Met investigate 'intimidating' Palestine flags in Tower Hamlets

UK Lawyers for Israel claim Palestine flags and pro-Gazan posters could spark violence against Jews

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Grenfell should have been a wake-up call – but the UK still doesn't take fire safety seriously because of who is most at risk

In March 2023, a fire in Tower Hamlets, east London, claimed the life of Mizanur Rahman, a 41-year-old father-of-two from Bangladesh. Five fire engines and 35 firefighters attended the call to the two-bedroom flat in Maddocks House, on the Tarling West housing estate, in the early hours of the morning.

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Crowd-funded legal bid launched to block Tower Hamlets mayor ripping out traffic-calming measures

Almost 700 people have already pledged £37,000 to the legal fighting fund – though another £45,000 is needed to fund the case

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Victoria Park 'privatisation' row erupts as council increases festival days

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman said the town hall had 'to squeeze as much as we can' from its assets

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'Hundreds' of schoolchildren join pro-Palestine protest in Tower Hamlets

Thursday's march forms part of Friday's "National School Strike for Palestine" initiative

Evening Standard

Sadiq Khan urged to use legal powers to prevent East End LTNs being axed

Last-ditch plea to prevent Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman ditching walking and cycling schemes

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