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There's some financial respite for residents of Tower Hamlets after Mayor Lutfur Rahman confirmed Council Tax is to be frozen for the third year in a row.

The freeze has yet to be ratified by the full Council and will be discussed over the coming months before going for a vote next spring.

By John Biggs

Canary Wharf, and the Docklands area, was rebuilt under the Docklands Development Corporation - the LDDC.

It achieved a lot but is widely recognised to have not spread its gains sufficiently into the community. Things have slowly improved but it still feels like a colony, plonked into the area.

By Peter Golds

On Christmas Eve council members received notification that the council's budget meeting was being bought forward by one week to Wednesday, February 23.

On that evening the Council Tax for 2011-12 will be set and the final budget approved or rejected.

By Tim Archer

Tower Hamlets Town Hall has re-opened for business after the local elections and there is the feel of a new school term about the place.

The new Labour administration in the Town Hall has wasted no time at all in pushing out the scare stories that the new Government in Westminster will spell disaster for Tower Hamlets.

By Tim Archer

It must be an election year as the Labour-run Tower Hamlets Council has proposed to freeze Council Tax.

Coincidentally, the last time Council Tax was frozen in Tower Hamlets was in 2006, also an election year.

By John Biggs

Well, it's budget time again. My job as an Assembly Member is to examine the Mayor's plans and look for the flaws.

So here they are (well, the big ones anyway). The good news is that the amount of Council Tax precept is remaining frozen in Boris' latest budget.

By Tim Archer

Only days apart from each other we learnt that the Audit Commission has criticised the Labour-run Tower Hamlets council for the way it sacked its chief executive and the size of the bill that resulted and that there will be no increase in council tax next year. No increase in council tax is to be welcomed. But it's only a start.

Tower Hamlets residents are set to see a 1.69 per cent rise in their council tax this year.

The ruling Labour party's budget was approved at last week's special budget meeting, increasing the Band D tax from £1,175.46 to £1,195.34.