TODAY WE continue with our occasional series The Thames today. The Thames forms the southern boundary of four East London boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Havering. In one way it is a barrier, sealing off one direction ...

ACTIVIST MEDICS are appealing for funds to help them continue work on the effects of climate change on human health. The campaigners are looking to raise £10,000 to continue their work after a disappointing COP26. Medact’s roots are in the ...

TODAY WE continue with our occasional series The Thames today. The Thames forms the southern boundary of four East London boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Havering. In one way it is a barrier, sealing off one direction ...

OVER 200,000 anti-Covid vaccinations were undertaken across the UK over the Christmas break – with Redbridge Town Hall dishing out the highest number of vaccinations of any site in the country. In London, 54,307 vaccinations – including 3,478 first doses ...

TRAGEDY STRUCK Newham on Boxing Day, as police found a woman dead at a house in Earlham Grove, E7. They had gone to the property just before midday after receiving reports from people concerned over the welfare of the occupant. ...

TODAY WE continue with our occasional series The Thames today. The Thames forms the southern boundary of four East London boroughs: Tower Hamlets, Newham, Barking & Dagenham and Havering. In one way it is a barrier, sealing off one direction ...

FIFTY YEARS AGO the Charts recorded the best-selling “singles” of each week. Have the hits of 1971 stood the test of half a century of time slipping by since they were released? Sadly, in most cases the top selling singles ...

IT’S THREE CHEERS for London’s NHS as it announces that a record number of anti-Covid vaccinations have been carried out in the last week. The service has delivered 650 booster/third dose vaccines in a week. The number of booster/third doses ...

EAST LONDON COUNCILS are busy with their annual task of planning when rubbish will be collected from residential areas over the holiday period – and they are already announcing arrangements to dispose of Christmas trees when the festivities are over. ...

Emdad Rahman Civil rights leader the Reverend Jesse Jackson, who worked with Dr Martin Luther King in the 1960s, has paid a visit to the East End, where he spent an afternoon with teachers, students and parents at the London ...