The Mayor of London Boris Johnson has outlined details of the London Curriculum, which puts the city itself at the heart of learning in the capital. He announced his scheme during a speech he made at the Education Reform Summit ...

On 9th August, CND will connect the nuclear bomb factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield with a giant, seven mile long, pink peace scarf! Hundreds of supporters have been knitting beautiful pieces of pink wool and crochet which will form part ...

As the weather heats up, so too does festival season in Tower Hamlets – and this year promises to be a scorcher with the Boishakhi Mela in Victoria Park on Sunday, 22nd June. The Boishakhi Mela is the largest Bengali ...

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 ...

Elderly and vulnerable Londoners were warned against falling victim to courier fraud on Wednesday, 4th June as part of Courier Fraud Awareness Day. Between April 2013 and April 2014, Tower Hamlets Police received 43 reports of courier fraud. Borough Commander ...

He runs his own online company, he’s brimming full of business ideas, he’s about to lead the Old Street revolution – and he’s just 21. East London News spoke exclusively to ROSS BAILEY – the man behind the Old Street ...

For the first time since it opened in 1901, Old Street Station is being reinvented. Transport for London (TfL) and Appear Here, the online marketplace for short-term space, are transforming the station into an interactive and experimental shopping and leisure ...

Mayor Robin Wales’s Newham Administration was left with egg on its face on Tuesday

Mayor Lutfur Rahman has welcomed to the Council ten of the Borough’s disabled residents who will be taking up work placements at Tower Hamlets.

Emdad Rahman: I think I may have met my match when I came face to face with a 6’3”, 331 pounds Juggernaut and his little friends.