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Booksellers Association (Free subscription) | 24/10/2008
We have written before about public libraries dumping books in skips for land fill and now The East London Advertiser informs us that Tower Hamlets are to bin its almost entire collection of 30,000 specialist foreign language books. French, German and Portuguese collections stored at Bethnal Green Library are no longer wanted and most have never been borrowed. The books occupy some 1,000 shelves and...
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Jonathan Fryer (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Last night I joined Simon Hughes ands the new Liberal Democrat PPC for Bethnal Green and Bow, Ajmal Masroor, to break the fast with an iftar meal with Tower Hamlets local party stalwarts and some leading members of the Banglatown community in one of the biggest restaurants in Brick Lane. The place was heaving, and [...]
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LSI Online News (Free subscription) | 12/06/2008
UK - London's Tower Hamlets is known as one of the city's less well off areas. Yet one of its schools, Morpeth in the Bethnal Green district, has done particularly well, with a £13.5m ...
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Chris Paul: Labour of Love (Free subscription) | 04/06/2008
Are Lib Dems and Labour really Montagues and Capulets, or Sharks and Jets of Tower Hamlets? Super scooper scribbler Ted Jeory casts these parties and star crossed lovers Stephanie and David as "opposites" . Though surely the Libs will be lucky to scrape fourth in Bethnal Green and Bow? Even the Tories have nicked a Trot or two. Nevermind. Can readers name any interesting precedents? Outside Verona...
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New York Habitat Blog (Free subscription) | 06/12/2007
Bethnal Green is situated in the lovely London borough of Tower Hamlets in East London. Tower Hamlets is one of five London boroughs that has been designated to host the 2012 Olympics! With museums, sports stadiums and parks galore, renting this one-bedroom apartment in Bethnal Green in Tower Hamlets near the bustling Canary Wharf is [...]
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Art Of The State Blog - London (Free subscription) | 30/10/2007
So here's what looks like a new Banksy in Bethnal Green. Looking pretty damn fresh too with it's line marking paint (all of which should make it that bit more difficult to erase).
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headphone sex (Free subscription) | 30/10/2007
A quality new Banksy in Bethnal Green.... hopefully he can stick 'em up as fast as Tower Hamlets rip 'em down. Twats. It's seemingly influenced by 'the flower guy' Michael De Feo So after a great many reminders and a few sharp pokes in the ribs, I finally got a mix recorded for Mdme Modyfier. It's 75 minutes of the finest Detroit sounds of the past 20-odd years (plus one from LA that
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LibDem Blogs (Free subscription) | 14/08/2007
{george-galloway.jpg} When I tell people I live in Tower Hamlets, I’m often asked, ‘Oh, have you got that George Galloway as your MP?’. As I don't live in Bethnal Green and Bow, it has been a great relief to be able to reply ‘No, thank God!’. Some of my near neighbours, who do, are still cringeing from his antics on ‘Big Brother’, not to mention his style of politics. But now he’s declared that he...
