7TH MAY is thought of as “polling day” across East London. But if you are too young to vote, and you’re thinking of studying at Tower Hamlets College, that’s also the day when you can go and find out more ...

SAVE THE DATE! The University of East London (UEL) is staging a Royal Docks Innovation & Enterprise Summer Festival on 3rd June. It’s going to be a mixture of fun and new experiences. Your Wednesday by the Royal Docks offers ...

THE END of Birmingham’s long-running bin strike may be in sight – leaving the question: why on earth did the Labour Council take so long to settle the dispute? The problems began in September 2023 when Birmingham City Council effectively ...

WHILE THE eyes of the nation zoomed in on yesterday’s London marathon, the telegraph wires were humming with a range of offers and fun facts. Here’s a round-up of the BTS details that jogged in to our inbox. ●Free doughnuts ...

US President Donald Trump and other key politicians were swiftly evacuated by security staff from the White House Correspondents’ Annual Dinner as a noise rang out which may have been gunshots. Whether the noise was a shooting or another loud ...

FOR SEVERAL days it seemed that US President Donald Trump had retracted his threat to escalate the war on Iran by bombing its civil infrastructure – in favour of negotiating a settlement. Now the talks are off. Hopes were first ...

FOUR MEN have been arrested following the death of a young man in Leyton. He was stabbed. The Metropolitan Police received reports shortly after midnight on Thursday, 23rd April that a group of people were fighting in Saint George’s Road, ...

IT’S RODENTS again! There has been a series of food retailers withdrawing products from sale due to potential rodent contamination. The latest is Saffron Pastries. The company provides a series of cakes, rusks and biscuits – and the products they ...

THE BANK of England has predicted that global stock market are about to fall. With unusual candour, it has warned that share prices are too high and do not reflect the risks that the global economy is facing. The view ...

KEIR STARMER has told the House of Commons why he did not know that Peter Mandelson had failed his security vetting. MPs listened in an atmosphere which veered between stony indifference and incandescent outrage. At the outrage end, two MPs ...