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Tower Hamlets Council cabinet member Anwara Ali has left Labour for the Tories, saying she has become "disillusioned" with the party's NHS reform.

The Bow West councillor's defection will come as a blow to the ruling party, as the GP was lead member for health and well-being in the borough.

Isle of Dogs councillors are among the Tower Hamlets politicians calling for urgent talks over the "suspension" of chief executive Martin Smith.

Peter Golds, Tim Archer and Phil Briscoe want an extraordinary meeting of full council to discuss claims the CEO was sent home from duty on Wednesday.

The War of words is still raging over the future of Poplar's Robin Hood Gardens estate.

But the Government remains tight-lipped on whether it will reverse its decision not to list the brutalist building.

Fires on the Isle of Dogs have left residents fearful their homes could be a target for arsonists in the future.

ONE of the world’s most famous architects has backed it – but it seems a 1970s ‘brutalist’ housing estate next to Canary Wharf will soon be history unless it is listed.

The Wharf revealed how Robin Hood Gardens estate in Blackwall was under threat as part of a large regeneration scheme, and now demolition has come a step closer.

Last Wednesday (March 5) Tower Hamlets Council’s cabinet gingerly approved a rough framework plan for the Blackwall Reach project, which would see up to 3,000 homes rise from the rubble of the 1970s structure.

English Heritage has not yet decided whether to recommend the listing of the building to the Government.