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Biggs Highlights Progress on Mile End safety plans
Progress on Mile End safety plans Labour Assembly Member John Biggs has met Transport planners to put forward residents' suggestions for safety improvements at Mile End. Following a site meeti...

Tory priority is a tax cut for millionaires
Jim Fitzpatrick MP challenges Tory opponent on inheritance tax plans Poplar and Canning Town MP Jim Fitzpatrick has today challenged his Tory opponent on whether he supports David Cameron's policy th...

Tower Hamlets Labour Group condemns anti-semitic graffiti
    Tower Hamlets Labour Group condemns anti-semitic graffiti and attacks in the wake of Israeli incursion into Gaza   Along with many of our fellow citizens, the Tower Hamlets Lab...

Do you know a dangerous crossing?
To mark Road Safety week (10 - 16 November) London Assembly member John Biggs is trying to find the most dangerous crossing in Tower Hamlets. Next week is National Road Safety Week. To coincide with ...

Rachael Saunders’s petition against nightclub licence
Rachael Saunders, Labour’s candidate for the Mile End East by-election, met residents to talk about the problems with Club E3’s current licence this week. The club has had its current licence te...

Free alarm care service for pensioners
Council Leader Cllr Lutfur Rahman   Labour councillors have decided to make the Telecare Alarm service FREE for pensioners in Tower Hamlets.   Speaking about the proposals Council Leader Lu...

Mayor dismisses passengers' anger
Local Assembly Member John Biggs slams Mayor Johnson's dismissal of passengers' anger at TfL bus decision. John asked the Mayor if he recognised local people's anger about the new 488 bus.  Ov...

MP attends Remembrance Service for victims of the Blitz
Jim Fitzpatrick MP yesterday (10th September) attended a service held at the old St Luke’s Church War Memorial, Canning Town,  to remember those who lost their lives in the Hallsville Road S...

MP marks Chinese heritage
Jim Fitzpatrick MP marks Chinese community's East End heritage.   Jim Fitzpatrick MP helped unveil a plaque in Limehouse which marked the Chinese community's long and strong links with the Eas...

MP highlights plight of carers
Jim Fitzpatrick MP has teamed up with charity ambassador and TV & Film actress, Pam Ferris, to show his support for carers in Poplar and Canning Town who are amongst the six million people in the...

Labour on the rise in Tower Hamlets
  Despite Ken Livinstone's defeat in the Mayoral election, Labour performed strongly on May 1st and the support for Labour across the borough shows that the momentum is with Labour in T...

£13,925 means bus lifeline for Wapping residents will be extended to Saturdays
£13,925 means bus lifeline for Wapping residents will be extended to Saturdays Following a high profile campaign by Cllr. Denise Jones, London Assembly Member for City and East London, John Bi...

More speed and skills for new road crossings
More speed and skills for new road crossings Local Assembly Member John Biggs called for a meeting with transport bosses to uncover the problems of the shortage of transport engineers to instal...

World Famous Co-operative School Takes Over London’s City Hall
World Famous Co-operative School Takes Over
London’s City Hall The world famous co-operative and democratic school Summerhill, recently the subject of a Children’s BBC drama, is holdi...

Solutions to Ghost Buses
Solutions to Ghost Buses Following the visit to Wapping by local Assembly Member John Biggs, joined by Jim Fitzpatrick MP and Council Leader Denise Jones, TfL have agreed to review how the re...

East London must be first for new Countdown
East London must be first for new Countdown Local Assembly Member John Biggs has asked the Mayor that East London be the first area to receive the new Countdown technology displayed at bus st...

Safety boost for dangerous junction
Safety boost for dangerous junction Local Assembly Member John Biggs last week accepted a resident's invitation to watch a dangerous junction during the morning rush hour.  Days later, Joh...

Spring re-opening for Aldgate East
Spring re-opening for Aldgate East
Local Assembly Member John Biggs is optimistic for a spring re-opening of the eastern entrance of Aldgate East station, as part of the refurbishment works...

Jim Fitzpatrick MP re-visits Bangladesh
Jim Fitzpatrick MP re-visits Bangladesh Over the Christmas period Jim Fitzpatrick MP visited Bangladeshi, touring development projects supported by the Canary Wharf Group. The week-long visit ...

Replacement buses disappoint
Replacement buses disappoint Local Assembly Member John Biggs, Jim Fitzpatrick MP and Denise Jones, Leader of Tower Hamlets Council, visited the closed Wapping station in the morning rush hour ...

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