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Fresh fruit and veg prescribed to low-income families in UK trial

Project aims to tackle poverty-related health inequalities caused by cost of living crisis

The Guardian - UK

How to claim the Tower Hamlets emergency energy fund

The Energy Fund will supplement the newly implemented £2.7 million cost-of-living package

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets: Children lie down in front of council workers trying to rip up school street blockade

Children celebrated after their action prevented traffic calming measures being removed at the order of mayor Lutfur Rahman

Evening Standard

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Students to be paid £400 to stay in school - is your child due payment?

Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman has reintroduced the Educational Maintenance Allowance for students from lower income backgrounds, a Blair policy that was scrapped by the coalition in 2010

Daily Mirror

Children protest against Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman's decision to axe school street

Sadiq Khan has announced £69m a year to create more “school streets” across London – as one borough mayor infuriated parents by ripping out a scheme protecting primary school children. Lutfur Rahman, the mayor of Tower Hamlets, ordered workmen to remove the traffic restrictions around Chisenhale school in Bow on…

Evening Standard

Children and parents take to the barriers in bid to stop Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman axing school street

Protest comes after London mayor Sadiq Khan announced £69m a year for borough schemes, including more school streets

Evening Standard

Shea Gorden: Four teens charged with murder following fatal stabbing in Tower Hamlets

Shea Gordon was killed on September 4

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Shea Gordon murder: Detectives arrest four teenagers in Tower Hamlets killing probe

Shea Gordon was fatally stabbed on September 4

Evening Standard

Urgent manhunt after thug stabs man, 57, 'at random', leaving him fighting for life

Emergency services rushed to the scene in Tower Hamlets, London, earlier today following reports a man was attacked at random, leaving him with life-threatening injuries

Daily Mirror

Moment 7 men brawl with machetes and bats in street fight as armed police swoop

Three men were arrested but later released with no further action after a violent brawl broke out during the middle of the day in Tower Hamlets, East London last week

Daily Mirror

Tower Hamlets Mayor Lutfur Rahman ‘ripped out LTN enforcement camera after six people complained’

A London borough mayor committed to “reopening the roads” ripped out a popular traffic-calming measure after receiving only six complaints.

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets: Lutfur Rahman’s bid to end traffic calming hits the buffers

Campaigners have claimed an early victory in a battle to prevent a mayor from ripping out traffic-calming measures across an east London borough.

Evening Standard

Tower Hamlets: One dead and another critically injured after ‘highly worrying incident’

Officers rushed to Lichfield Road at around midnight on Sunday following reports of a fight involving a large group of people

Evening Standard

E-scooter rider dies following ‘hit and run’ collision with car in Tower Hamlets

Enquiries are ongoing to trace the driver of the car that failed to stop at the scene

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Not just the ‘red wall’ – how Labour took voters for granted in the heart of east London

Kicked out at the local elections, Tower Hamlets Labour left a legacy of ‘managed decline’ and a disliked plan for Brick Lane, says Hettie O’Brien, assistant Opinion editor at the Guardian

Evening Standard

Footage released of man sought following robbery in Tower Hamlets

The Met Police has released footage of a man they wish to speak in connection with a robbery in east London.

Evening Standard

New ‘crackdown’ on family voting following Tower Hamlets questions

A crackdown to prevent voting malpractice is being proposed in Parliament after controversy over the town hall election in Tower Hamlets.

Evening Standard

New questions over voting and ‘intimidating’ crowds in Tower Hamlets

As political comebacks go, it’s right up there. On May 5, Lutfur Rahman was elected Mayor of Tower Hamlets a mere seven years after he was ousted from office and barred for five years, having been being found guilty by a special electoral court of corrupt and illegal practices during…

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New questions over voting and ‘intimidating’ crowds in Tower Hamlets election

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman was at the centre of a fresh voting row on Friday after a report highlighted “significant challenges to the electoral process” during his resounding victory in borough elections.

Evening Standard

Lutfur Rahman: Inside the shock return of Tower Hamlets’ divisive mayor

After a major scandal in 2015 Lutfur Rahman was removed from his role as mayor of the borough in which he’s just re-taken power. What happens next? David Bond investigates

Evening Standard

Lutfur Rahman must now show he’s not afraid of questions after Tower Hamlets victory

The extraordinary story of Lutfur Rahman’s political career in Tower Hamlets will interest students of the political and electoral history in the future. As an observer from across the council chamber, there was no visible evidence as to how and why he would secure the political support that he did.…

Evening Standard

Lutfur Rahman: Disgraced Tower Hamlets winner ‘must deliver on his promises’

Lutfur Rahman must now “deliver on the promises he made” after his shock victory in Tower Hamlets, its outgoing mayor said.

Evening Standard

Labour loses Tower Hamlets to Lutfur Rahman’s Aspire party

It comes after Mr Rahman, a convicted fraudster, made a shock political comeback by taking the mayoralty back from Labour.

The Independent UK

Labour loses east London council to Aspire party

The Aspire Party, founded by Lutfur Rahman, gained Tower Hamlets Council from Labour after winning 24 of the 45 seats.

The Independent UK

Controversial former Tower Hamlets mayor back in power in London borough

Lutfur Rahman was previously forced to step down after an election court found him guilty of corrupt and illegal practices.

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