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OPINION - The Standard View: A reminder that rubbish collection is as vital to a city as transport and policing

The Evening Standard takes out the trash. Barely hours after publishing our front page illustrating the festering piles of rubbish (and only hinting at the smell) in London’s East End, Tower Hamlets council reached a deal with striking refuse collectors.

Evening Standard

London refuse workers’ strike ends as pay deal with council reached

Unite says extra £750 secured for Tower Hamlets striking workers after rubbish left on streets for nearly two weeks

The Guardian - UK

OPINION - Why is there so much rubbish on the streets in London?

The people who collect the bins in Tower Hamlets are on strike. Reportedly not so in Camden, though they might as well be. For three years now, I have rented an apartment in NW6 – formerly of Dusty Springfield fame, now just of dust and dirt.

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Piles of rubbish to be cleared as Tower Hamlets strike ends with pay deal

Tower Hamlets Council and Unite the Union negotiated an end to a pay dispute involving waste service workers and street cleaners.

The Independent UK

Tower Hamlets: Piles of rubbish to be cleared as refuse collection workers strike called off

Festering piles of rotting rubbish have been piling up in the streets of Tower Hamlets since refuse workers launched strike action over a week ago

Evening Standard

Up to 1.5 million households could be hit by bin strikes as rubbish piles up on London’s streets

The first wave of bin strikes hit London last week causing widespread disruption in Tower Hamlets

The Independent UK

OPINION - The Standard View: Refuse strike leaves a bad smell across the East End

The rubbish may be piling up in the streets of Tower Hamlets but this is not the Winter of Discontent. Back in 1978-79, the refuse collectors had the good grace to go on strike when the weather had turned cold, sparing residents of the smell currently pervading the East End.

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What a load of rubbish! Thousands of bin bags litter London streets as strike extended for two weeks

6ft high piles of rubbish in echoes of the winter of discontent

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets set to rip out majority of popular low traffic neighbourhoods

Mayor Lutfur Rahman was re-elected on a pro-motorist platform but consultations have found the traffic calming schemes are liked by residents

Evening Standard

Man who sexually assaulted woman as she slept at home in Tower Hamlets jailed

Darrel Phillips assaulted the woman while she was asleep in her own bed

Evening Standard

China's plans to build a new embassy near the Tower of London stall amid local opposition

China’s plans to build a new embassy near the Tower of London have stalled following local opposition to what would be the biggest diplomatic compound in Britain

The Independent UK

Row breaks out over Tower Hamlets plan to spend thousands on ‘lavish’ office for mayor Lutfur Rahman

A row has broken out over “lavish” upgrades to Mayor Lutfur Rahman’s office in Tower Hamlets’ new town hall

Evening Standard

‘Chaos’: Tower Hamlets housing service ‘near collapse’ with families housed in B&Bs

Staff working for the London borough claim inexperienced recruits are encouraged to put people off seeking council help

The Guardian - UK

Population jumped in towns and cities after peak of Covid pandemic, figures suggest

Tower Hamlets and Westminster had the biggest increase, while South Staffordshire saw the largest drop.

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'Fixers' offer to help women jump the council housing queue - for £5,000

During a two-month investigation, the Mirror spoke to a number of women from a Somali community in London, including a mum-of-five who has been in temporary accommodation for 12 years

Evening Standard

Man jailed for brutal hammer murder in Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park

Erik Feld was obsessed with ‘horrific violence’ and ‘fuelled by homophobia’, police said

Evening Standard

Revealed: London’s best and worst boroughs for promoting cycling and walking

London Cycling Campaign report analyses progress on measures like protected cycle lanes and safer junctions

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Man charged with murder as police search for missing woman in Tower Hamlets

A man is due to appear in court charged with murder following the disappearance of a woman in east London.

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Calpol is most shoplifted item in London borough amid cost-of-living crisis

Tower Hamlets has the highest level of child poverty in the UK with over 50% children living in households below the poverty line

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Three dealers running ‘Ice’ drugs line across north east London jailed for 20 years

Three drug dealers running a line across Tower Hamlets, Hackney and Islington have been jailed for a total of almost 20 years.

Evening Standard

Speed to be cut on major roads in five London boroughs this week

The speed limit will be reduced to 20mph on main roads in five London boroughs this week in a bid to improve road safety. Transport for London will cut the speed limit on 17 miles of “red routes” under its control in Camden, Islington, Hackney, Haringey and Tower Hamlets from…

Evening Standard

Dozens of east London businesses targeted in wave of hammer attacks

One business is suffering thousands of pounds of damage after its windows were smashed three times in six months

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets stripped of £1m funding amid pro-car agenda

A London borough whose mayor is pursuing a pro-car agenda has been stripped of more than £1 million in transport funding — and faces losing a similar amount next year.

The Independent UK

Police horse attacked by dog ‘inundated with apples and treats’

Footage circulated on social media showed a brown dog savaging Urbane while two mounted officers patrolled in Victoria Park, Tower Hamlets.

The Independent UK

Homophobic man with extreme violence obsession beat man to death with claw hammer in cemetery

Erik Feld killed Ranjith Kankanamalage in Tower Hamlets in August 2021

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