Young film-makers win award for their film on fried Chicken! HoodForts – Chicken from Mile End Community Project on Vimeo. Young people from the Mile End Community Project (MCP) won best film under the ‘freefall’ category at this year’s Limelight awards. Their short film explored the fried chicken phenomenon in […]
Residents around Southern Grove will have noticed a flurry of activity on the school site over the bank holiday weekend. Annoying it has been but today should see Bouygues UK hand the school over to the folks at Beatrice Tate. The existing Beatrice Tate School will be relocated from St […]
As part of Boris Johnson’s new vision for cycling (PDF download) the inadequate re-design of Mile End Junction has been sent back to the drawing board. There will be new plans, and very probably, a new consultation, so we now have a chance to get this dangerous junction properly re-designed for the needs […]
Tower Hamlets are trying to encourage residents to consider the materials they recycle through the launch of a new recycling campaign – ‘Recycle right!’ (now old campaign but a peek into recycle bins round Mile End indicates remedial action is still needed) Run by Tower Hamlets Council and Veolia Environmental Services, […]
The Friends have now been told by LBTH that they can have the use of the old Cemetery Lodge. Here’s a video they made and presented to LBTH about their ideas. We’ll be full steam ahead following a condition survey report. Tower Hamlets Cemetery Park is a nature reserve in […]
Yesterday (Wednesday 13th February) Ennerdale House and surrounding blocks on Hamlets Way suffered severe disruption due to yet another power cut. The problems started at just before 4 am and included hilarious antics such as UK power operatives being trapped in the lift in the early hours by their own […]
The scene on Monday at the Hamlets Way end of Brokesley Street as contractors attempt to clear a blocked drain. Drains are a recurring problem on Brokesley Street. The probable reason being that the main drain under Brokesley Street is only 300 mm (12 inches) wide. Making it the smallest drain in […]
Many thanks to Disability Rights UK for this. Click links or scroll down to find out what is happening and when…. from April 2013 from June 2013 from October 2013 from March 2014 from December 2014 from April 2015 from October 2015 from April 2017 from October 2020 from April […]
The Welfare Reform Act 2012 ushers in the greatest changes to welfare benefits in some sixty years. These changes will have far reaching impacts for benefit claimants, particularly for vulnerable people and the services which support them. Homelessness could increase and more people may turn into the hands of loan […]
It seems like only yesterday that disgraced Barclays Bank bosses chief executive Bob Diamond and chairman Marcus Agius resigned in the wake of the Libor price fixing scandal. Barclays was fined £290m back in June after some of its derivatives traders were found to have attempted to rig this key […]
