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The Latest Breaking News from Tower Hamlets

Barry Can’t Swim brings crowd to its feet on second weekend of All Points East

The festival in Tower Hamlets drew a crowd of about 40,000 people.

Evening Standard

Who are the Pink Ladies? Anti-migrant hotel protesters vow to keep up campaign

Dozens of women vow to continue campaign ‘protecting vulnerable girls from men’ living near Britannia International

Evening Standard

OPINION - Hang on... why is it okay to take down English flags but not Palestinian ones?

Sir Keir Starmer may lack popular appeal but he’s not silly. That’s why he has declared his support for the St George’s flag in the row about two councils in Muslim-majority areas, the latest Tower Hamlets, taking down both the English flag and the Union Jack.

Evening Standard

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Investigations launched as rooms in sold off London police stations 'illegally rented out'

Investigations have been launched in Tower Hamlets and Enfield after rooms in sold off police station buildings were illegally listed for rent for up to £1,300 a month

Evening Standard

Canary Wharf student rooms skyscraper gets go-ahead as City Hall overrules council

Deputy mayor says project will help tackle housing crisis and boost economic growth, months after Tower Hamlets Council refused scheme

Evening Standard

Concerns raised over impact of Chinese 'super-embassy' on London's 'very stretched' police

Labour and Tory members of the London Assembly were united on Wednesday in their opposition to the proposed embassy in Tower Hamlets

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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Ministers to oversee Tower Hamlets council amid concerns over leadership

Exclusive: inspectors raise alarm about mayor Lutfur Rahman, who previously served a five-year ban from office

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Rupa Huq MP: My government must not give the despotic Sheikh Hasina refuge in the UK

Mystical Beatle George Harrison sang about how “Bangladesh” was “a mess”. He was proved right again last week. With echoes of the ousting of Saddam Hussein, statues were toppled and effigies of the “father of the nation” burned from capital city Dhaka to Tower Hamlets. His autocratic daughter PM Sheikh…

Evening Standard

China’s new London embassy on hold pending Westminster intervention

Deadline has passed for Beijing to appeal against Tower Hamlets council’s rejection of plans

The Guardian - UK

‘They treat us like animals’: families waiting years for housing to take legal action against London council

Somali families claim Tower Hamlets has left them in unsafe conditions, and accuse council of racism and corruption

The Guardian - UK

Tower Hamlets town hall review – an old hospital immaculately stitched up

The £125m transformation of the Royal London hospital into an elegant seat of local government is a sleek operation that has retained the 18th-century building’s original aura and poise

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