Sentences with phrase «hamlets council»

Tower Hamlets council (incorporating Whitechapel) offers information across a range of areas that you may find beneficial, from housing and health to employment, education and the local community.

She split the K Foundation money between Shelter, the arts trust at HM Prison Albany and grants for young artists - but neither award cut much ice with Tower Hamlets Council.

Tower Hamlets Council had considered moving Draped Seated Woman to private land in Canary Wharf but has instead chosen to «explore options» for a sale.

The Liberal Democrat leader of Tower Hamlets council at the time denounced it with particular enthusiasm, calling it «utter rubbish» and «a little entertainment for the gallery - going classes of Hampstead».

The Turner Prize nominated artist Tracey Emin, best known for her «Unmade Bed» installation is at the center of a continuing planning row with Tower Hamlets council.

Following discussions with the Art Fund, the London Borough of Bromley has written to Tower Hamlets Council to assert ownership of Henry Moore's Draped Seated Woman following significant new evidence.

In the same week, the Labour leaders of Tower Hamlets Council established an appointments group to look at recruiting more Bangladeshi employees to the council workforce.

In April 2008 Rahman was elected as Leader of the majority Labour Group on Tower Hamlets Council, and therefore became Leader of the Council, replacing Denise Jones.

[7] He has been part of the leadership of Tower Hamlets Council, serving as Lead Member for Education for two years and, from 2006 — 07, Lead Member for Culture.

Labour has gained control of Tower Hamlets council from no overall control after winning 23 of the 45 seats.

Labour has taken control of Tower Hamlets Council after gaining three more seats in the St Peters ward, taking them... twitter.com/i/web/status/9...

The total project will cost # 254,000 over two years, made up of # 140,000 from Unite, # 64,000 from Tower Hamlets Council and # 50,000 from Barclays.

Unite has opened this centre, however, with support from Tower Hamlets Council and a capital grant from Barclays to fund a state of the art ICT learning suite.

Former Mayor of London Ken Livngstone has apologised and paid libel damages to the former Labour leader of Tower Hamlets Council, Michael Keith.

More success followed in the 2006 local elections, when Respect became the official opposition on Tower Hamlets council.

Tower Hamlets council has welcomed Scotland Yard's decision to halt the investigation into allegations against their elected mayor.

One of the most disturbing political news stories of the year had to be the takeover of Tower Hamlets council by central government after the spectacular conviction by an electoral court of the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, Lutfur Rahman, for electoral fraud.

Tower Hamlets council won ruling from press watchdog over claims in story also picked up by Daily Mail

Labour has gained control of Tower Hamlets council, over which no party previously had overall control, the Press Association reports.

Tower Hamlets Council chief executive Will Tuckley said the authority had been «impressed by the care and commitment of the foster carers».

Judge Khatun Sapnara from East London Family Court said on Wednesday that social services staff at Tower Hamlets council considered the women a suitable carer.

John Biggs said Tower Hamlets Council looked «very carefully at the appropriate matching» and chose fosterers who could look after the child at a «very traumatic time».

Not exact matches

Tower Hamlets complained about the third article, published on 30th August 2017, which said the child was «removed from her Muslim foster parents yesterday and reunited with her family as a judge urged councils to seek «culturally matched placements» for vulnerable children».

Tower Hamlets have not built a council house since the 1970's.

On Friday night Tower Hamlets became the last council to declare, with Labour the winner.

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against an imposed Labour candidate — Helal Abbas.

The borough — Tower Hamlets — has a severe shortage of council housing, with 22,500 people on waiting lists for accommodation and thousands more families living in cramped, overcrowded conditions.

There are three important points to make about the Rahman / THF rule in Tower Hamlets and the possibility of other councils becoming Muslim run:

Tower Hamlets First do not have the spread across the borough to win the majority of the council seats, and have only 40 per cent.

Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest, Newham and Greenwich councils were all instructed last April to comply with government regulations restricting the regular publication of council newspapers

A council spokesperson said: «The news from the Metropolitan Police is to be welcomed and Tower Hamlets will continue to work with the Auditors and DCLG.»

Two weeks ago, the Campaign for Labour Democracy's AGM passed a motion calling for Lutfur Rahman, the Mayor of Tower Hamlets, to be readmitted to the party and for a full investigation into events since the disastrous 2010 selection process that led to this former Labour council leader standing as an independent and winning against -LSB-...]

Just 2 1/2 years ago, Lutfur Rahman was selected as Labour's candidate for Mayor of Tower Hamlets with 433 votes compared with 251 for local London assembly member, John Biggs, and 157 for council leader, Helal Abbas.

Ms Gilbert spent 18 years in teaching, of which eight were spent as head of the Whitmore high school in Harrow, and held the post of director of education at Harrow council for five years before taking over at Tower Hamlets.

At least Tower Hamlets can no longer be branded the country's slowest council.

Tower Hamlets, which had 2,144 people on its list for 10 years, claimed it had delivered more affordable homes recently than any English council despite limited space.

Last week Tower Hamlets Labour group, myopic in their perpetual factionalism, joined forces with local Tories to vote down the annual budget proposed by the former Labour council leader and now independent mayor Lutfur Rahman, who of course was removed as Labour candidate by the National Executive Committee in the run up to the 2010 mayoral election, despite having been selected by a majority of local party members.

This is what happens when for twenty years the Party hierarchy has prevented members in Tower Hamlets from freely choosing their own Council candidates.

Raja Miah from the Tower Hamlets Race Equality Council said the result meant the area had stepped back seven years in terms of race relations.

Chairperson, Tower Hamlets Race Equality Council.

In March 2014, just weeks before council elections in Tower Hamlets, the BBC aired a Panorama programme making serious allegations about his suitability for office.

The electorates of Hackney, Lewisham, Newham and Tower Hamlets also elected their executive mayors, who operate in place of council leaders in those boroughs.

The final council to be declared was Tower Hamlets, which was gained by Labour from no overall control.

2018 could see a few entirely Labour councils as well as Newham and Barking you could see Haringey, Islington, Hackney, Tower Hamlets, Lewisham, Southwark and Lambeth all going that way.

Parent Keeley McSweeney also talks about the impact this has had on the schooling of her children while Tower Hamlets Labour councillor Joshua Peck says the council failed to respond to the need for schools.

Supported by Arts Council England, «Clad» takes place over 10 days at the Ragged School Museum in Tower Hamlets during London Craft Week.

The Working Artist was put together with support from the Arts Council Collection, Blackburn Museum & Gallery, Bolton Library & Museum, Doncaster Museum & Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, St. Anne's College, Oxford, Tower Hamlets Local History Library & Archives and Queen Mary University of London.

«While we understand the financial pressures that Tower Hamlets faces, we feel that the mayor's proposal goes against the spirit of Henry Moore's original sale to London County Council at a favourable price on the understanding that it would be placed in East London,» they said.

In 2012, the council of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets announced its plans to sell another version of Draped Seated Woman 1957 — 58, a 1.6 - tonne bronze sculpture.

In Begum v Tower Hamlets London Borough Council [2000] 1 WLR 306, [1999] All ER (D) 1189 it was said that this provision only applied if the applicant was already occupying the accommodation in question.