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A teenage Paralympic table tennis star has been named Canary Wharf Sports Personality of the Year.

Ashley Facey Thompson, who will represent Great Britain at the 2012 Paralympic Games, won two golds and one silver at the National Disability Table Tennis Championships and led Great Britain to team gold at the Italian and German Opens last year.

The world's oldest complete steamship is on track to re-open to the public after being awarded a grant of almost £1million from the Heritage Lottery Fund.

The SS Robin, which is moored on a pontoon in the Royal Victoria Dock, will receive £954,500 to enable the final restoration of the historic vessel.

Wapping residents were left frustrated as their questions over the use of King Edward VII Memorial Park for the proposed super sewer went unanswered.

A public meeting organised by the Thames Water at St Paul's Church Hall last Thursday outlined their plans for their "preferred option" to locate waste outlet pipes for the Thames Tideway Tunnel on the park's foreshore.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

The biggest political contest will take place in London between Boris and Ken for the Mayoralty of this great City this year.

Both David Cameron and more so Ed Miliband are nailing their colours to the masts of their respective candidates but Ed must have more to lose if Ken Livingstone doesn't pull it off.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

The City - and I include Canary Wharf as part of this financial and economic landscape - can be a very confusing vista for Joe Public.

It's ironic that such a big global world of finance is such a small world, unknown and quite unknowable to most people. It has therefore been interesting to receive a number of emails in support of a "Robin Hood Tax".

Tower Hamlets bid to become a city received a high profile boost at a Parliamentary reception last night hosted by Limehouse and Poplar MP Jim Fitzpatrick.

The borough is seeking to be awarded city status as part of The Queen's Diamond Jubilee next year, and the event - held on the House of Commons terrace - celebrated its history and achievements.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

Parliament operates at so many different levels. Prime Minister's Questions, debates, committees, all-party groups' meetings on every conceivable subject. And we are open to all. This week I've been lobbied by a constituent asking me to support the Tory rebels on Europe; teachers lobbying on the unfairness of the Tory-led Coalition's proposals for their pensions and youngsters making a film about youth unemployment. 

Jim Fitzpatrick has made a heartfelt speech in the House of Commons for Tower Hamlets to be granted city status to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee next year.

The MP for Poplar and Limehouse spoke in the House last night during a short debate on the borough's bid to be awarded the status.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

Tower Hamlets' bid to achieve city status continues to gather pace.

Odds on the borough have tumbled from the opening 40/1 against, and we are now considered to be one of the top bids seeking to catch Her Majesty's attention when she decides next year in celebration of her Diamond Jubilee.

Politicians have been left baffled by a government consultation into easing traffic congestion to the east of London.

The Department for Transport has revealed plans to increase toll charges at the Dartford Crossing, using the extra cash to build another bridge.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

Compared to other parts of London, Tower Hamlets got off lightly in the recent riots - but not if you were one of the victims, either personally or through your business.

The Prime Minister David Cameron focused on gang culture as the root of many of our problems. I agree with him.

Tower Hamlets politicians have condemned the violence that has occurred across the borough in the last 24 hours.

Labour MP for Poplar and Limehouse Jim Fitzpatrick and Mayor of Tower Hamlets Lutfur Rahman have both promised that everything is being done to try and safeguard people and property in the area from rioters.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

If one had stopped to think over years of the many and varied ways in which investigative journalists have obtained and fleshed out their articles and exposés, it would have been clear that some sharp practises were used to make the splash as eye-catching, lurid or dramatic as possible. But things take a vastly more sinister turn for the worst when a missing child's phone is hacked.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

I recently co-sponsored a debate in the House on circus animals. This was business with which I'd been dealing, as a minister, just before the election, but which we didn't have time to finish. Mark Pritchard, Tory MP for The Wrekin, Bob Russell, Lib-Dem for Colchester, and I jointly pressed the Government to ban wild animals in circuses.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

Tower Hamlets' churches gathered last Friday to celebrate social initiatives in the borough. Street Pastors, Tower Hamlets Foodbank and the Night Shelter could all be described as Big Society items but these initiatives pre-dated the Coalition and were not designed to replace gaps in services caused by cutting public spending too fast, too deep.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

The Coalition Government's Health and Social Care Bill has recently been the generator of a very large number of emails, all expressing similar concerns about its intentions. My own correspondence to Health Secretary Andrew Lansley highlighted the fears of individuals, patient groups, professionals and experts who have condemned the proposals as wasteful, unnecessary and potentially damaging to the NHS.

Political foes Jim Fitzpatrick and Tim Archer have united to urge voters to reject reforms to the electoral system next week.

On May 5, the country will be called to the ballot box to give their view on whether the Alternative Vote system should be adopted for the general election.

Campaigners took their fight to save King Edward VII Memorial Park to City Hall last week in a bid to stop Thames Water threatening the future of the area's only green space. London Assembly member John Biggs, Limehouse and Poplar MP Jim Fitzpatrick and comedian and Limehouse resident Lee Hurst joined protesters to hand in 4,000 signatures to Mayor Boris Johnson against proposals for the Thames Tideway Tunnel that they fear will ruin their park.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

Posters appear locally, offensive and anti-gay. A demonstration is organised. Some of us say: "Count me in."

But it's not as simple as that, as we hear that an organiser of the march has links to the English Defence League.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

I hear that some Labour members are calling on organisations in Tower Hamlets to refuse to cooperate with Mayor Lutfur Rahman. I must confess to finding this extremely naive. I have established regular meetings with the mayor, and the Labour Group leadership in Tower Hamlets is engaging similarly to try to influence his decisions.