You’ll be over the moooooon at Jack and the Beanstalk, a traditional pantomime with a cosmic twist – coming to Gants Hill later this month. If you haven’t booked your ticket yet, get those fingers clicking on the link below ...

Welcoming an award won by a park opened by Mayor Lutfur Rahman, Labour’s John Biggs said: “We are delighted that the Landscape Institute has awarded Derbyshire Pocket Park first prize in the ‘Design for a Small Scale Development’ category.” Not ...

Around 2,500 people in Tower Hamlets have a Freedom Pass which expires on 31st March, and Tower Hamlets Council has reminded them of the procedure for renewing the Pass. •First, pass-holders will receive a letter early this month explaining what ...

David Cameron will admit tomorrow that he cannot exert his authority on his own Cabinet, the BBC believes. The BBC claims that Prime Minister David Cameron will announce tomorrow that he will allow Cabinet Ministers to campaign either for or ...

Warning: potentially offensive islamophobic image below. Alas, it seems Donald Trump is slightly cleverer than we thought. The two major parties in the USA, the Democrats and the Republicans, are choosing their candidates for November’s presidential elections. The candidates are ...

Junior doctors explain why they oppose the Government’s new contracts. Since this film was made, doctors have voted overwhelmingly in favour of strike action. Here you can listen to their reasons.

A total of eight east London Tube and/or DLR stations have been rezoned – in a move which will make it cheaper to travel to destinations in Newham. The affected stations are: Stratford, West Ham, Stratford High Street, Stratford International ...

A 6.7 magnitude earthquake occurred at approximately 5am on the morning of 3rd January. The epicentre was near Imphal, the capital of that Manipur state of India, just to the east of Bangladesh – about 200 miles from Dhaka. The ...

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It’s 2016: the 40th anniversary year of the release of How Dare You, 10cc’s fourth album – their final one with the original line-up. In recognition of the coolest band of the 70s, here’s the title track.