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Unlikely cities - The Economist
Last Updated - 26/01/2012
Unlikely cities
The Economist
Among the 25 places that have submitted bids are two London boroughs, Croydon and Tower Hamlets. Until 1889 city status was given only to towns with an Anglican cathedral. That changed when Birmingham was awarded a royal charter despite lacking a ...
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Club has licence revoked following drug search - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 26/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Club has licence revoked following drug search
EastLondonLines
Tower Hamlets police also found that the club was holding more people than legally permitted. The building was originally a public toilet and is only licensed to hold 60 people, including staff. Spitalfields Community Group started a campaign to close ...
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Row over Tower Hamlets Mayor refusing to answer councillors questions - East London Advertiser
Last Updated - 26/01/2012
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Row over Tower Hamlets Mayor refusing to answer councillors questions
East London Advertiser
A furious row blew up at Tower Hamlets Council when Mayor Lutfur Rahman refused to answer members' questions in public. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below. The message will include the name and email address ...
Calls to save Tower Hamlets pub amateur gay strip nightBBC News
Council: No decision made on strip night gay pubPinkNews.co.uk
London council wants to strip pub of amateur exposingATV Today
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Campaigners celebrate end of Isle of Dogs bird cull - The Wharf
Last Updated - 26/01/2012
The Wharf
Campaigners celebrate end of Isle of Dogs bird cull
The Wharf
By Simon Hayes on January 26, 2012 12:17 PM | Campaigners trying to save a colony of monk parakeets on the Isle of Dogs are celebrating victory after Tower Hamlets Council agreed to stop all culling activity in the borough. The Department for Food and ...
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Tower Hamlets - The Independent
Last Updated - 26/01/2012
Tower Hamlets
The Independent
Percentage of pupils achieving 5 A* to C grades or equivalent including A* to C grades in maths and English. Number of Key Stage four pupils in all English Bacc subject areas. Percentage of Key Stage Pupils achieving A* to C in both English and maths ...
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More cash for pupils, please - Bedford Today
Last Updated - 26/01/2012
Bedford Today
More cash for pupils, please
Bedford Today
The authority that gets the highest funding is Tower Hamlets Council in London, which receives £8000 per pupil. Children in Central Beds get the lowest funding out of authorities in Bedford, Luton, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire.
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Choice of GP practice guidance published - dh.gov.uk
Last Updated - 25/01/2012
Choice of GP practice guidance published
dh.gov.uk
The PCT areas involved are Westminster, City and Hackney and Tower Hamlets, Manchester and Salford and Nottingham City. PCT clusters need to take action before April 2012 in order to ensure that patients who register with a GP practice outside their ...
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Man's Olympic dream comes true - The Press Association
Last Updated - 25/01/2012
Man's Olympic dream comes true
The Press Association
George, who is taking part in a series of rehearsals ahead of the ceremony, has received support from Livability since moving to Grove Road, Tower Hamlets, last March. The charity provides a supported living service for adults with learning ...
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Children's club is safe from cuts, council says - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 25/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Children's club is safe from cuts, council says
EastLondonLines
Tower Hamlets Council has said there are no plans to close a children's club in Victoria Park, following rumours that it will be axed as part of cuts. The One O'clock Club is a free playgroup for parents with children. Rumours emerged that the club ...
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Tower Hamlets to get 17 extra police officers thanks to council cash - East London Advertiser
Last Updated - 24/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Tower Hamlets to get 17 extra police officers thanks to council cash
East London Advertiser
By Nadia Sam-Daliri An extra 17 police officers are joining Tower Hamlets force to make up for staff cutbacks imposed on all Scotland Yard stations. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below.
Officers recruited after residents' demandsEastLondonLines
Council's speaker runs up £9000 taxi bill after being stripped of his official carEvening Standard
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Disabled Bow performer to shine at Olympics - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 23/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Disabled Bow performer to shine at Olympics
EastLondonLines
A Tower Hamlets resident's dream of being part of the Olympic Games will be made a reality. George Elich, 25, who has learning difficulties, will take part in one of the two biggest shows in the world this year, the Olympic Games Opening or Closing ...
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Class Struggle (Tower Hamlets education workers' bulletin) - Workers' Liberty
Last Updated - 23/01/2012
Class Struggle (Tower Hamlets education workers' bulletin)
Workers' Liberty
AWL is an organisation fighting as part of the labour movement for a socialist alternative to both capitalism and Stalinism, based on common ownership and democracy. We welcome debate and encourage free discussion. Log in with a user name, ...
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Tower Hamlets' city bid gains momentum as Olympic athlete pledges her support - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 23/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Tower Hamlets' city bid gains momentum as Olympic athlete pledges her support
EastLondonLines
The 23 year old 400m specialist, joins the likes of the City of London, Canary Wharf Group, Tower of London and the Whitechapel Bell Foundry, the oldest manufacturing company in the UK, who have all pledged to give Tower Hamlets' bid their full backing ...
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Metal becoming the real steel in Bethnal Green - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 20/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Metal becoming the real steel in Bethnal Green
EastLondonLines
This means Tower Hamlets homes cannot let out the flats without paying to replace all of the plumbing work. He tells me that thieves even once tried to steal the metal communal bins but were foiled when scrap merchants alerted the authorities. ...
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Cooperative to reuse empty homes - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 20/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Cooperative to reuse empty homes
EastLondonLines
Poplar HARCA (Housing and Regeneration Community Association) has teamed up with Tower Hamlets-based Phoenix Community Housing Co-operative to provide homes for single adults who are homeless or at risk of being homeless. Nine studio flats intended for ...
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Top 10 local authorities for schools include nine London boroughs - The Guardian
Last Updated - 20/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Top 10 local authorities for schools include nine London boroughs
The Guardian
The level of overachievement in local authorities like Hackney, Newham and Tower Hamlets is nothing short of remarkable. "What worries me is that children with similar backgrounds from other parts of the country do not seem to be performing as well.
Unemployment levels in Tower Hamlets and Hackney among the worst in the countryEastLondonLines
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Landlords could help sofa surfers - The Press Association
Last Updated - 20/01/2012
Landlords could help sofa surfers
The Press Association
Quaker Social Action is calling on landlords and tenants with a spare room to help so-called sofa surfers and vulnerably housed people across Hackney and Tower Hamlets. The move is part of the charity's Homelink project, which offers advice, ...
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Football: Youth League - Islington 3 Tower Hamlets 2 - Islington Tribune newspaper website
Last Updated - 20/01/2012
Football: Youth League - Islington 3 Tower Hamlets 2
Islington Tribune newspaper website
ISLINGTON'S primary schools' district football team showed their battling mettle on Saturday as they twice came from behind to beat Tower Hamlets 3-2 in the Kay Trophy. Played at St Aloysius playing fields in Highgate, Michael MacNeill's side found ...
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Historic park in Bethnal Green to get cafe-kiosk and cycle parking - East London Advertiser
Last Updated - 20/01/2012
East London Advertiser
Historic park in Bethnal Green to get cafe-kiosk and cycle parking
East London Advertiser
Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman said: “This project is set to bring lasting improvements to the borough – returning an under-used space to the community.” The council are also hoping the cycle parking area with spaces for around 80 bikes would make ...
Metal becoming the real steel in Bethnal GreenEastLondonLines
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Warning over Olympic pollution problems - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 20/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Warning over Olympic pollution problems
EastLondonLines
London's leading scientists have warned that high pollution levels in Hackney and Tower Hamlets could jeopardize the health of Olympic competitors. High pollution levels in the surrounding Olympic boroughs have become an increasing concern for ...
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Learning from Shoah - Jewish Chronicle
Last Updated - 19/01/2012
Jewish Chronicle
Learning from Shoah
Jewish Chronicle
London's Deputy Mayor Richard Barnes joined Holocaust survivor Zigi Shipper at a special assembly at Bishop Challoner Catholic Collegiate School in Tower Hamlets in advance of Holocaust Memorial Day, which falls next Friday. ...
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Unemployment levels in Tower Hamlets and Hackney among the worst in the country - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 19/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Unemployment levels in Tower Hamlets and Hackney among the worst in the country
EastLondonLines
Tower Hamlets is suffering from the one of the highest levels of unemployment in the country. Unemployment has reached 13.2 per cent in the borough, making it the third highest of all the London Boroughs and fifth out of 415 regions and local ...
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Olympic Park Legacy Company to be "wound up" as Boris Johnson takes over - Insidethegames.biz (blog)
Last Updated - 18/01/2012
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Olympic Park Legacy Company to be "wound up" as Boris Johnson takes over
Insidethegames.biz (blog)
He also said that four of the Olympic Boroughs, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Newham and Waltham Forest, would all have representation on the Planning Committee of the MDC. "London is preparing for one of the greatest summers this city has ever seen: we are ...
Olympic park legacy powers given green light by London AssemblyEastLondonLines
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Tower Hamlets and Lewisham secure awards for urban planning and design - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 18/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Tower Hamlets and Lewisham secure awards for urban planning and design
EastLondonLines
East London has once again been recognised for its contribution to making London a great place to live in, after scooping two awards in Tower Hamlets and Lewisham at the ninth annual London Planning Awards. St Paul's Way Trust School in Tower Hamlets ...
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Council to look into low-cost energy alternatives - EastLondonLines
Last Updated - 17/01/2012
EastLondonLines
Council to look into low-cost energy alternatives
EastLondonLines
Tower Hamlets council is to look into the creation of an 'energy co-operative' in a drive to lower energy bills and reduce fuel poverty in the borough. The council's plans involve assembling potential sponsors and partners to collaborate with ...
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