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- Tower Hamlets invests £8m into community safety as it launches new Anti Crime Task Force
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- 13th February 2025
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- TWO eBay traders operating in Mile End have been handed suspended prison sentences, after their 'sophisticated' counterfeits goods operation was exposed.
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- 11th February 2025
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- Council statement on the planning application for the Chinese Embassy at the Royal Mint Court.
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- 7th February 2025
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- The MOT test station on Silvocea Way is run by the council and has reopened to the public after a five-year closure.
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- 4th February 2025
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- A packed Grocers' Wing of Whitechapel Town Hall was the setting for the Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) Awards and Summit on Thursday 30 January.
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- 3rd February 2025
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- A Local Awards programme which recognises the achievements of women in Tower Hamlets has returned for a second successive year.
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- 3rd February 2025
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- Forty rough sleepers who were bedding down on the streets of the East End in freezing temperatures earlier this month, were helped off the streets and given shelter - as part of emergency cold-weather plans put into action.
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- 24th January 2025
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- Almost 300 new affordable homes - including more than 100 family-sized homes - have been given the go-ahead by Tower Hamlets Council.
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- 23rd January 2025
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- Tower Hamlets Council has welcomed the appointment of three Government Envoys who will support the east London local authority on its continuous journey of improvement.
- Date:
- 22nd January 2025
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- More than 1,200 knives have been taken off the streets of Tower Hamlets since April 2024, thanks to six knife amnesty bins across the borough.
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- 21st January 2025