Caroline Lucas, Green MP for Brighton Pavilion, has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) calling for rail services and jobs to be protected as a new superfranchise of Thameslink, Southern and Great Northern (TSGN) services gets underway. The Government appears ...

The man shown in the CCTV image is wanted by police in connection with an incident of robbery that took place at the Heathway, Dagenham on 29th April. The victim in this incident, a 27-year-old man, was threatened and then taken ...

There’s a host of events at the Globe Theatre this summer to keep the whole family entertained. For too many of us, the term “Shakespeare” conjures up memories of dusty text books with lines of verse which, though it seemed ...

It has been revealed that two elected Green politicians, neither of whom possesses a criminal record, have been under surveilleance for years – by Scotland Yard’s domestic extremism unit. The Green Party has rushed to condemn the police for monitoring ...

Cornelia Baltes is hanging out in the maternity unit of the Royal London Hospital: not because she is lingering over performing the usual event the unit’s visitors expect to perform, but because she is the artist who has created new ...

Just before Christmas 2012, 6,661 Comet staff were sacked when the administrator Deloitte announced the closure of the company, including all 195 stores, offices and distribution centres. Shopworkers union Usdaw took out a case at the Leeds Employment Tribunal on ...

Tower Hamlets Council is reminding residents that the drug khat will become illegal from 24th June, under new legislation introduced by the Government. Khat will become a controlled Class C drug under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, which means ...

If you’re a fan of Mr Youth, who takes his first name from the part of our borough where he now lives, make plans to get down to Heaven on 13th November, which is where and when you’ll be able ...

Sudanese songwriter Ahmed Gallab, aka Sinkane, is back with Mean Love, his fourth solo full-length under that moniker, due for release on 2nd Sept via DFA and City Slang. His PR invited us to “listen to the funky new single ...

The organisers of Field Day, the music festival held in Victoria Park earlier this month, have thanked all those who attended for making the event a brilliant and successful event. You can see a range of photos of the extravaganza ...